JOHNIE FINN
Tolman Alaskan Skiff
22′6″ Widebody
Start 12 June 2020
Flipped 04 October 2020
Floated 02 May 2021
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Tolman Alaskan Skiff
22′6″ Widebody
Start 12 June 2020
Flipped 04 October 2020
Floated 02 May 2021
This is a PT Watercraft PT 11 I built from their fantastic kit. I completed it in Fall ’21. It is painted inside and out with Perfection two-part urethane to protect it from the Florida sun and keep it cool. I left a small stripe of clear around the interior to show what it is really made of.
I helped my friend Glenn Strombo build this Adirondack Guide Boat to the plans found in “Building an Adirondack Guide Boat” by Michael J. Olivette and John D Michne.We shortened the length by 16 inches to utilize more readily available 16 foot cedar planking stock.
Philip Rhodes designed the Penguin Class dinghy in 1939. Fred Kaiser of Clinton, NY, built this particular Penguin (#7990) from a kit in 1966 for his daughters to use. Richard Ellers of Warren, OH, restored the dinghy and re-launched her in the summer of 2003.
Using Bill Platt's design, Eric Rasmussen built this 18' pulling boat and launched it in the summer of 2007. Eric writes that used white spruce and white cedar that he logged in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which he then milled into bead-and-cove strips for the hull.
Mike Jennings spent three months building DEVA from a Chester Yawl Kit produced by Chesapeake Light Craft. Launched last June, he rows her near his home in Coquitlam, British Columbia. DEVA is seen here at Rocky Point on Buntzen Lake in Anmore, British Columbia.
Esc.Key is a new solar electric river boat recently launched by Denman Marine.
The initial design brief was for a river launch that was similar in concept to the early 20th century Noosa River putt putt boats which had a hard top to keep the harsh Queensland sun at bay.
Tom Crucitti works for Arey's Pond Boat Yard where he restored this 22' Great South Bay Cat, ANN ELIZABETH. He replaced five planks, three frames, and the entire deck. ANN ELIZABETH was relaunched on August 10th 2002. Contact Arey's Pond at Box 222, South Orleans, MA 02662.
MARION is a Shenahdoah Whitehall skin on frame boat designed by Dave Gentry (http://gentrycustomboats.com).
15', gunter rigged yawl, hinged mast, built 2019, epoxy plywood construction. $10,500.
Beautifully restored wooden row boat from Old Town Canoe of Maine with trailer and original sales
Built by owner to offsets in Dory Book by John Gardner.