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Early September saw the launching of cedar strip planked Stand-Up-Paddleboard, designed and built by Andrew J. Malcomb of Dwarka Boatworks in Central Mass.
I wanted to share with you a couple photographs of my Night Heron kayak (LOA 18′, beam of 20″), designed by Nick Shade of Guillemot Kayaks . The boat took nearly two years of weekends and evenings to complete, with work proceeding at a glacial pace during some periods.
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.
The Pride of Buffalo, designed and built by Michael R Weekes is a 16′ long, 10′ wide, 9′ high geodesic houseboat inspired by R Buckminster Fuller. It was launched at Canalside on the Buffalo waterfront at the Western Terminus of the Erie Canal on Thursday, July 25th.
Decked double-paddle canoe. Plywood hull with pine strip decking and mahogany trim.
Spira international Galveston 19 completed.
90hp 4 stroke Yamaha
Oak trim and slatted floor
1 year build time
1000 hrs labor
Outside fiberglassed, inside paint with pettit EZ Bilge
Pettit Easypoxy for outside color
Home built console and leaning post
Boy Scout Troop 617 in Columbia, Maryland, undertook building a Bevin’s Skiff to expose the Scouts to parts of a building project they would later face when doing their Eagle Scout projects.Working from an instruction manual provided with the kit from Alexa
15′ skiff DIABLO by Phil Bolger and taken from a Dynamite Payson book. I enjoyed this project. It was my first boat build. I tested with the outboard shown but will probably remove it. I modified the rear seat with a center seat, and added a bow seat. I took it out in San Diego bay.
Iain Oughtred of Findhorn, Scotland, designed this 10' dinghy that Larry Dow built over the winter of 2002. After 200 hours of construction, he launched her in Eliot, Maine, in July 2002. He used 6mm marine plywood with a laminated fir stem and mahogany trim.
Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, offers a one-semester "Practical Ship and Boat Design" course that "aims to get students comfortable with lines drawings by lofting a sailing model full scale," writes instructor David Bill.
Construction began December 5th, 1953 at Morse Boatbuilding in Thomaston, Maine delivered May 1st
"Learning Curve", a 24' cat ketch sharpie drawn by Karl Stambaugh.
