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Wood Duck 12 - Built at the WoodenBoat School in August, 2018 and completed in September 2018.
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Wood Duck 12 - Built at the WoodenBoat School in August, 2018 and completed in September 2018.
Gary Knox writes "A flea market 'find' with five plus coats of 'Camp Green' paint; Gary and friends stripped and sanded down this pre-WWII cedar on oak classic. It revealed a solid mahogany transom, which was hand-planed down for a clear finish.
Custom boat named in memory of my mom and dad. Summerville Woodworks 310-702-9582.
Tom Hardison spent 7-+ years building this 24' yawl, LITTLE WOODY. The hull is from a modified Glen-L plan. He added a bowsprit, keel, and made the hull thicker, using two layers of 1/4" laminated plywood. Everything other than the hull was of the builder's design.
Rod Wright’s version of the Barto 16′ melonseed (WB plan#120). She’s built of spanish cedar, sipo, ash and white oak; and sports a sail sewn 13from a Sailrite kit.
Chris DeFirmian is a woodworker in Santa Barbara, CA who uses his dinghy LARK to transport himself and his tools to jobs about the harbor. LARK is equipped with a center-lifting hatch to keep his tools dry.
Community School of Davidson is at it again, this time launching a Dave Gentry designed “Wee Lassie” built by 6th and 7th grade students at their middle school. Instructor Jim Dumser built it with eight students from the Friday “explore elective” over the fall and winter.
Students Sheldon Patterson, Ross Melhorn, and Andrew Dingledine built this Jon boat at Edgewood High School in Trenton, Ohio, under the instruction of Mark Schallip. They found plans for the 12′ x 4′ hull online and then modified those plans to create this design.
ZIP is a 1953 Alcort Sunfish, built in Waterbury, CT, the 13th Sunfish from the first pre production batch of 20 boats. Alex Bryan and Cortlandt Heyniger (ALCORT) built these boats and gave them to friends and family to see if they would like the cockpit and wider beam.
Arch Davis Jiffy V22 Skiff 2011. 8'-6 beam, meranti plywood, douglas fir framing, MAS expoxy.
Designed by Doug Hylan and built by Geoff Kerr (Two Daughters Boatworks) in 2012, this particular
Over the past 20 years, I and a handful of remarkable shipwrights have completed a comprehensive
First ever Wianno Senior (Crosby Boatyard) built - 1914 gaff rig keel boat, 25’ (27’ including bo