SAPELE is a trawler style boat built by its owner. It has Douglas fir framing and bulkheads together with marine plywood. The hull is sheathed with fiberglass set in epoxy. The keel is 3″ wide and 14″ deep of Sapele, with a sacrificial strip of purple heart. The keel is bolted with bronze bolts.
Verity is the first Bristol 16, designed in tandem with a 32 foot motor launch for the same owner, which is in build now.She is of composite build: strip planked in Western Red Cedar, epoxy/glass sheathed, fitted out in teak, W R Cedar and plywood.
The Bristol 16 was designed in tandem with a 32 foot motor launch for one owner, who asked for certain design features like the straight stem.
WHIMSY—30 ft cabin built in 1947 by Elmer Collomer. Camden Maine. Said to be the only power boat he ever built.
Lil Miss Canada is a 12′ 1954 cold moulded plywood Wagemaker Wolverine. Hull number M679 with the original 1954 Johnson 25HP RD - 15 still running well.
Relaunch of a 1958 Thompson Sea Skiff. This is the smallest lap strake boat made by Thompson in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. All ribs, keel, gunnel, spray rails, and decking were replaced.
Relaunchings----This is a 10ft 5 inch catboat I built from a kit in 2000 from a boatbuilder that is no longer in business, (Upper Deck Boat shop). I had it in Mystic in 2000 for the WoodenBoat Show.
