PICKEREL
Using 4mm okoume plywood over a skeleton of poplar, Ed Neal built PICKEREL according to Michael Alford's plans, purchased from the WoodenBoat store, www.woodenboatstore.com.
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Using 4mm okoume plywood over a skeleton of poplar, Ed Neal built PICKEREL according to Michael Alford's plans, purchased from the WoodenBoat store, www.woodenboatstore.com.
ST. JACQUES construction began on Christmas Eve 2013 and finished up May 2017. The boat was built by the Lewis family in Navarre, Florida. The strakes are okume plywood, keel is white oak and the seats, gunwales and spars are cypress.
PERFECTO is a CLC Pocketship designed by John Harris and modified by Master Violin Maker, Scott W Hershey of Dillsburg, PA. I stretched PERFECTO by 1′ and extended the cabin and widened footwell. Building photos are on YouTube videos and are in 3 parts.
Donal O'Callaghan writes that his boat is "one of those boats that whenever you row it, you should allow a few minutes to answer questions, because people are attracted to it like a magnet." He built this sleek beauty from plans by Graeme King of Putney, Vermont.
Rod Fuqua built this 17′ Northeaster Dory with guidance from Les Chase a boatbuilding school in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The stitch-and-glue dory has a 56″ beam, and will easily hold three adults. Rod launched MARY AGNES on October 15, 2011.
Eric Russell first launched DAMFINO in October 2003 to be used as a touring canoe. He added the sail rig over the winter and relaunched her in April 2004, recycling an old Dyer Dink Sail. Don Meisner is the designer, he began construction in 1999.
Tim Allen built this 7' pram from a design by Glen-L Boats of Bellflower, CA. Named CROW'S NEST, he intended her as a sailing pram using leeboards. He found that it only sails downwind and capsizes easily, so Tim bought a 2hp Honda motor to replace the sailing rig.
In 2014 and 2015 Nanette Jockin and Jan Sepp built “Houtje”, a Wabnaki canoe in their summer cottage in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands.
Zack Taylor features this duckboat design on the back cover of his book "Successful Waterfowling & Customizing Small Boats." Builder and owner Wayne Graff uses her in Flathead Valley near his home in Kalispell, MT. Her sides are 1 x 10" cedar built over a framework of oak and pine.
Sweet-lined Acorn skiff designed by Iain Oughtred, completed in 1999 but still like new.
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Rocklady, Sam Devlin design for builder/owner John Calogero, Sr.
Fiberglass bottom, trailer. Built in 2005 by Old Wharf Dory Company in Wellfleet, MA.