Launchings

Ron Breault built this boat to use as a tender to MARIONETTE, hence the name ’TEER. Though he launched her “in the last century” his enthusiasm for ’TEER has not waned and he showed her at the 2009 WoodenBoat Show, where she looked just gorgeous.

After an extensive restoration by the Lewis family in Florida, the steamboat tender BARBASHELA returned to the Gulf Coast waters October 17, 2016. She was designed in the late 1870s by Captain T. P. Leathers of the steamboat NATCHEZ, and gifted to MS.

Kees Bugel first built an 18' cedar pulling boat designed by Ken Bassett. From there, he moved to this more complex Lala design by Joel White. The boat is cold-molded and includes a small Volvo auxiliary engine.

Built on Sam Devlin Godzilla 22 plan, by Andrew Denman in Kettering, Tasmania.

Soon to be fitted with bow pudding. She will be a bearded lady.

Moored at Warneet. A coastal village on Western Port Bay. Victoria.

Scott Tobey writes that he "wanted a boat for exploring the lakes and streams of the Adirondacks so it had to be something silent and electric; something with a shallow draft and very maneuverable, ideally powered by two Minn Kota outboards with dual throttle control and power trim for launching

Re-launching of a 9 ft. Ken Douglas lapstrake row boat after some minor repairs, paint and varnish.

Designer Iain Oughtred’s first design, a whitehall-like skiff with two rowing stations. She is 11′9″ long and 3′11″ wide and light enough to car-top. Glued lapstrake with meranti plywood planking, mahogany transom, Douglas fir backbone, thwarts and gunwales, and teak floorboards and sternsheets.

Jessica Glazer took these pictures of her father, Russ, sailing WILLIWAW.  Arch Davis designed the gunter-rigged Penobscot 14 , that Russ built with 1/4″ mahogany plywood, pine stringers and seats, and fir knees and spars. Russ sails his boat in Western Massachusetts. 

In 2002, Sal Balsamo built this Ninigret V-bottomed bassboat designed by Atkin Boats of Noroton, CT. Sal used 3/8" okoume plywood planking over white oak frames fastened with bronze screws.