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CLC Wood Duck Hybrid. Deck was created using reclaimed old-growth redwood salvaged from 100 year hold home remodel.
Here is our Prudence restored. She was built in 1947 in Maine and we found her in need of a total restoration in Marblehead. She was a lot of fun for our young boatbuilders. We also got a list of all the previous owners and contacted them. They thought she was long gone.
Over a pandemic winter Carl Frey built the NOELLE Q, an 8′ long, 26-pound kayak (19″ beam) from his own plans.
Howard Elmer says that Anthony Lake, at 8500 feet elevation, is one of the most beautiful lakes in Oregon, beautiful enough for the launch of his Cosine Wherry CHERIE B. Howard’s son, Sage, is shown here at the oars on Lake Anthony.
NAY NAY – Half Moon Lake Alberta
Electric powered picnic launch completed by Mark Heaton and Chris Mitskopoulos in August, 2007.
Solar powered electric launch using CLC Southwester Dory plans. She has a 3-hp Torqeedo motor mounted in a well as well as Torqeedo solar panels. Shaw and Tenney oars and a sprit rig provide towing and sailing options as well. A Norwegian tiller runs fore and aft.
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.
This was my first wooden boat project and it took me 4 months to finish it. I’ve used abachi and iroko for the strips
"The Adirondack Guideboat" by Ken and Helen Durant was the source for Bill Stark's JOSEPHINE, a 16'6" x 38" guide boat with a few modifications.
The “CHELSEA” was purchased by me in 1985 at a marina in Somers Point, NJ after coming back from a trip to Jamaica and and being introduced to sailing on a Sunfish.
Cadenza was built in 2003 by Rockport Marine from a design by L. Frances Herreshoff.
