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Herb Pollock keeps the 9'6" Nutshell Pram he built pulled up on the beach in front of his house in Holland, MI. Named SQUAREHEAD, she is a Joel White design.
Tom Karsnia designed and built the EDNA BELLE during the summer of 2004. He writes that the boat floats and rides like a dream. It seems as light as a feather in the water. It is easy to maneuver and turns on a dime. It is made of 3/8" marine plywood and western red cedar coated with epoxy.
At age 79, Lloyd Worthington is still turning out boats. THE CELT is a Iain Oughtred Fulmar design, 16'8" x 5'10", that Lloyd built using cold-molded methods. He used hoop pine Australian marine plywood over red Meranti frames and stringers, then covered the hull with Bote-Cote marine epoxy.
Martin Mittag, founder of the Wooden Boat Workshop of Norwalk, CT sent in this picture of 7 kayaks built at his workshop, during a three week project in the summer of 2003.
John Rhyne launched this Great Auk design kayak on August 31, 2003 near his home in Tennessee. The design is from Nick Schade's book, "The Strip-Built Sea Kayak." John used pine and Western red cedar in the construction.
Martin Herbert built ZOCCOLO, an International One-Metre design, to race in regattas up and down Canada’s west coast. He launched her on January 20, 2017. She is one metre (39″) long, 16cm (6″) wide, and draws 42cm (17″).
I’ve had a notion for a long time to build a wooden sailboat and teach myself to sail in it. I chose the Passagemaker Take-Apart Dinghy because I could build it and store it in my suburban two-car garage. I wanted the added complexity of a jib to make it more of a challenge to sail properly.
Jason Corsini of Quiet Waters Boatworks in Riva, MD built this beautiful example of Cerny Yacht Design’s Hill 16. Using a unique strip plank method and sheathed in fiberglass, she is lightweight, dry, and seaworthy while powered with a 40 horsepower outboard.
Driftwood’s hull is constructed of marine mahogany covered by fibreglass. The keel, stem, gunwales, benches, and spray rails are made from Sapele. It’s a Candlefish 13 Devlin Design that uses the stitch and glue construction method.
A CLC Northeaster Dory. As a kit boat, there are many like it, but the build of this one is special. It was built almost completely during my toddler’s naps over the course of 18 months. And I built it almost completely solo.
1998 built, refit 2020, cold molded construction, new awl-grip, all new hardware, pumps, batterie
WEST System cold molded mahogany triple cockpit runabout. 27" with a 506 c.i.
Built by the Burr Bros in 1960, this 36' beauty with a 10'9" beam was restored over seven years a
