Launchings

Gus Hedden took twice as much time as he expected to build this 15′8″ x 4′5″ Stickleback Dory designed by Iain Oughtred.He salvaged the sail from a 25-year-old Bolger Gypsy design and the spars from small Sunfish style boat.

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These are 10ft flat bottom skiffs built by 5th graders at the Dennis Haley Elementary School in Boston. Materials are: 3/8″ fir, marine ply bottom, white oak stem, frames, knees, rails and keelson, old growth eastern pine planking, silicone bronze fastened.

Rebekah Rogers built her first boat, this Salt Bay Skiff, with her Dad, Dave Racicot.

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.

Jay Harman rescued and spent years painstakingly restoring this historic minesweeper, turning her into expedition yacht and marine research platform.

Six youths in GreenFleet’s after-school boatbuilding program launched two Bevin’s skiffs in April 2011.  They modified them from the original Joe Youcha design by raising the freeboard 1″.  The boats will be used in GreenFleet’s summer environmental education and stewardship program.

Winnie is an Alcort Standard Sailfish built in the 1950s in Waterbury, CT. She came to us mid restoration from New York, we painted her and put her back together. She will sail in a whisper of a breeze and keeps you on your toes when the breeze picks up.

The Crystal River Boat Builders launched their 36′ x12′ scow, SPIRIT, on 4 October here in Crystal River, Florida.  She is a replica of the USS WARTAPPO, a scow from the Florida west coast, captured and used by the Blockade Squadron during the Civil War.  Two years in construction, it was built e

The klinker-built faering (four oars) has been used for transportation for centuries along the Norwegian coast line and in the fjords. In the areas close to the Sognefjord the features of the faering is particularly well preserved compared to the vessels of the Vikings.