On Monday, 8 August 2016, my Redmond Whisp rowing skiff TICKLE BEE became for the first time a sailing skiff.
This Chesapeake Light Craft Wood Duck 10′ hybrid strip kayak was built with white cedar, walnut, and Doug fir by Community Boat Building campers.
AURA was first owned by a well-off Arizona mining family. They made arrangements with Norman C. Blanchard, son of the founder, for one of the 33 foot sloops, then under construction on spec, which they named AIRA.
The Swan is a CLC Light Craft “Wood Duckling 8” built over a two week period by 9 year-old McKenzie Kaufman and her grandfather Charles McParland of Tega Cay, SC. She was launched on August 6th on Lake Wylie in South Carolina.
Tiger Shark was built by Community Boat Building 5th graders from the Harvard-Kent School in Boston. They launched it this summer along with 11 other Periwinkles built by their classmates.
ADELINE is a Pelicano 20, a custom version of the Pelicano Bass Boat by Pacific Northwest Designer/Builder Sam Devlin. She was built in the spring of 2015.
I started this boat by buying a load of rough cut northern white cedar from a small family run sawmill in Danville Vt.
CRAZY HORSE was designed and built as CHALLENGE in 1992 by Ed Nelson. She is strip planked over laminated ribs with ply decks.