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WHILE AWAY is an 18′ PT Skiff, built by Bill Cavanagh on Cape Cod from a kit supplied by Port Townsend Watercraft. Built in the shop of DMC Boats in Falmouth MA, she is strong, light weight and very fuel efficient.
Gloria Burge built this 6′6″ Philip Bolger Tortoise design and launched in in August 2012 in Searsport, Maine. She built the boat, glued and screwed, mostly, she says, in the living room of her camper.
CHRISTIN MARIE is a modified version of Reuel B. Parkers Exuma 52 design. This is a shoal draft, pilot house, centerboard schooner. Hull is cold-molded, covered in Xynole-Polyester cloth. I modified the cabin to allow for walk-through in the NW colder climate.
This rowing/sailing dinghy is based on George Cockshott’s 1913 design done for the British Boat Racing Association.
Jason Perkins teaches a boatbuilding class at Kingswood High School in Wolfeboro, NH and built this 16' E.M. White-designed White Water canoe with his class.
Michael Goodrich has read WoodenBoat for years and always wanted to send in his own new launching. When his son and daughter-in-law were expecting their own new launching with the birth of their first child, they asked Michael if he could build a co-sleeper for them.
John Burke built this pirogue using the Zydeco 14 plans by Applegate Boatworks of Veneta, Oregon. He writes "it is 13'3" in length and 34" in beam, constructed of 9mm okoume plywood on the bottom, and 6mm for the sides, a total of two 4 x 8 sheets were needed to construct the hull.
HIGH TIME, an original Alden Indian, was relaunched at Bittersweet Landing Boatyard at the Gut in South Bristol, Maine, on June 23, 2014. The boat, designed in 1921 for the John G.
Mark McGinley built this Iain Oughtred design 7 1/2′ Auk “ELSIE KAY” from Okoume plywood as well as locally cut Quarter sawn oak, ash, and pine. She is the tender for his Pacific Seacraft PS-25 located in the Apostle Islands area of lake Superior.
Jerry Hamilton launched SONG, a Bay Skiff 15 designed by Karl Stambaugh at Eagle Nest Lake near Angel Fire, New Mexico on September 4, 2010.
Newfound Adirondack Guide Boat - New 16'-2" long, 36.75" beam with (2) 8' Shaw & Tenney oars.
This original Herreshoff 12 1/2 was one of the last to come off the line of Herreshoff Manufactur
