BELLA
Bella is a Duck Trap Wherry built for our family outings and she was named after my daughter's nickname. The construction method is glued lapstrake and I used 6mm Cedar plywood for the planking and Cedar on the brightwork.
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Bella is a Duck Trap Wherry built for our family outings and she was named after my daughter's nickname. The construction method is glued lapstrake and I used 6mm Cedar plywood for the planking and Cedar on the brightwork.
With assistance of friends we built 6 rowing shells using Mr. Ron Mueller of Wayland Marine of Bellingham, WA design.The Merry Shelly is an 18ft x 24" 35lb hull stitch and glue kit. The rowing device is a RowWing which was fastened to 4 interior supports.
JEZEBEL is a Grand Banks 32 owned by Greg Walsh of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. When she needed a tender Greg decided to build a Shellback skiff from a kit sold by the WoodenBoat Store.
This was my first boat project and it took me 4 months to finish it. I used two types of wood: Abachi and iroko. I’ve cut 6mm thick strips and no cove & bead, every strip was beveled manually to match each other.
Rob Caveney launched this glued-lapstrake plywood Annapolis Tandem Wherry in April this year following plans from Chesapeake Light Craft. The hull is 18′9″ long, Rob reports that,“As advertised, this boat is a real rocketship.
Built at our winter home in Belize from local woods: Honduras mahogany for frames, stringers, etc; Spanish cedar for the planks.
Gorden Schweers had taken a two-week course on building a dory from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Townsend, WA before building this modified faering with his son Guthrie.
Tom Crucitti works for Arey's Pond Boat Yard where he restored this 22' Great South Bay Cat, ANN ELIZABETH. He replaced five planks, three frames, and the entire deck. ANN ELIZABETH was relaunched on August 10th 2002. Contact Arey's Pond at Box 222, South Orleans, MA 02662.
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