Launchings

WOODEN NICAL is a Joel White—designed Pooduck Skiff built by John Newcomb. He built WOODEN NICAL with okoume plywood planking, with a white oak keel, stems, knees, and 'midships frame. The spars and oars are laminated spruce.

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

BULLFROG is a Sam Devlin Godzilla 22′ tug boat design built by Denman Marine Tasmania, Australia. She was constructed from Lloyd’s certified Okoume plywood, fibregalss and WEST System epoxy resins.

Boston Family Boat Building has been building 10ft skiffs with students in the Boston Public Schools for the past 5 years. We recently worked with the skiff's designer, Nat Benjamin, to develop a sail plan for the boat.

Frank Fletcher spent two winters taking apart and rebuilding this boat he rescued from a neighbor's shed. He was able to reuse 80% of the original parts. He 'glassed the bottom up to the first strake to help protect it from its future use on his beach.

One off design. 3/8" AC ply lapstrake hull, copper rivets/ rove, reverse stem.

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.

Joe Vines designed and built this small skiff that he calls SCOUT. She is propelled by a small trolling motor or a paddle. Joe launched her in June 2011, and paddles her on Orange Lake and Lake Lochloosa in Citra, Florida.

Owner Nigel Vaughan had an old Eventide that was becoming unreparable, and couldn’t find another boat that suited his needs. He wanted to introduce a separate heads that could be accomodated by adding a foot to overall length an taking off a foot of the cabin seats.

When he couldn't find exactly the boat he wanted, dave Edinburg designed his own. Using the lines of the International 505 as a starting point, John created the cold-molded CARIBE. He used two layers of 3mm okoume plywood for the planking over plywood frames.