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After hours of searching through plans for a boat to build I figured the next best thing was to design my own. So working off the types of boats I liked I came up with C LEGS.Built from 6 mm ply glassed over she is strong and light.
Joe Greeley launched POGO, a Footy model designed by Flavio Faloci, in 2015. Since then, she suffered severe damage in an accident in 2017 and spent the last two years “on the hard” undergoing repairs.
Our 15 foot Joel White designed marsh cat is strip planked with cypress. She is decked with marine plywood, her floors and seats are cypress and she is fiber glassed inside and out with West System product. Her mast, boom and gaff are spruce. Fastenings are of stainless steel.
Dave Nelson took three years to build this Cosine Wherry designed by John Hartsock. He stretched the boat out a foot and a half, but kept the 52" the same as called for by Hartsock. Dave also modified the stem and transom shapes and modified the thwarts.
John Paul Burke grew up playing with friends Bob, Tony, and Linnie Streit. Now he has built a boat for the parents of his childhood friends, Rob and Charlie Streit.
DEDE is an epoxy-glued lapstrake Penobscot 17 designed by Arch Davis, and built by Ed Titus, an alumnus of the WoodenBoat School. Ed built DEDE from meranti plywood and Douglas-fir, and trimmed her with ipe. She has a gunter rig with tanbark sails. DEDE is 17′ long with a 5′ beam.
Hagoth is an epoxy-glued stitch and glue Annapolis Wherry Tandem by Chesapeake Light Craft. Jared launched the boat on 9/19/12 at Utah Lake. This picture was taken on 3/29/13. The boat was built during a week long class in April of 2012 and finished over the span of 5 months.
This is the 16ft version of the Sponge Docks Skiff Serie, built in wood/epoxy, specifically Meranti Hydrotec. She has a side console and a new Suzuki 40hp which got her up to 32mph.
Two kit boats from Chesapeake Light Craft, built from March to July, 2012. Mill Creek 16.5 and Chesapeake 17LT. Built in my shop in Points, WV, and launched at Camp Seven Lake, near Manistique, MI.
Philip Rhodes designed the Penguin Class dinghy in 1939. Fred Kaiser of Clinton, NY, built this particular Penguin (#7990) from a kit in 1966 for his daughters to use. Richard Ellers of Warren, OH, restored the dinghy and re-launched her in the summer of 2003.
Arch Davis Jiffy V22 Skiff 2011. 8'-6 beam, meranti plywood, douglas fir framing, MAS expoxy.
First ever Wianno Senior (Crosby Boatyard) built - 1914 gaff rig keel boat, 25’ (27’ including bo
Meraboire 1, one of the last known Pinaud motor yachts, is for sale.
