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Relaunched: Phil Bolger designed Gloucester Light Dory built in 1987 by David Bush guided by ‘Dynamite’ Payson (4 x 16 marine ply, bronze ring-shank nails into red oak chine logs & glass /epoxy).
Ron Rosene bought this boat in the summer of 2002 and restored it over the winter. EL RAY BARQUERO. is a 21' x 7' Skillcraft Day Cruiser made by Henry Boats in Plain City, Ohio in 1968. Zimmerman Boat Works in Columbus Ohio restored all the surfaces.
Duncan Burns writes of his 13' peapod, SWEET PEA, “Built to the Doug Hylan design and launched in February 1998, this peapod has logged better than 2,000 nautical miles in Long Island Sound between City Island, NY and Stamford, CT.
Tom Fulton built this Chesapeake Light Craft 17 kayak from a kit. CRISPO is 17′ long with a 2′ beam. This was Tom's first build. He launched her on April 11, 2011 on Prospertown Lake in Cream Ridge, NJ, and will use her as a sea kayak along the Jersey shore.
Ken Spring writes "Keith Matlack uses his 15'7" x 41" sharpie skiff, SQUALICORAX (Latin name of an extinct shark) for fossil hunting along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.
David Russell, David Russell, Jr., and James Brownlee built this modified 16′ Catfish Beachcruiser over the summer of 2007, and launched her in August 2007 in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. The design is by Phil Bolger.
SPIRIT is the first wooden kayak that Rod Chelberg has built. He started with an ocean kayak kit from Newfound Woodworks in Bristol, New Hampshire. Rod used red cedar strips with accent strips of white cedar on the 44 lb. hull.
28′ scow hulled catamaran constructed from marine ply and reclaimed wood. Built in Falmouth, Maine, by Steve King and Rick Keith.
Kelsey Johnson built “Knute” over the course of a year and a half. Carpenter by trade and a first time boat builder. It was made of white oak for the frames, mahogany for comings and trim, marine grade plywood for hull. This is a Glen L15 design. The mast and boom is douglas fir.
I built this Clint Chase-designed 16′ Calendar Islands Yawl from a kit from Chase Small Craft. After a year and a half of weekends and nights building it, I got it launched in June 2018, just in time for the WoodenBoat Show in Mystic, CT.
PLEASE save our 94 year old Mother's beloved sailboat from the burn pile!
Iconic Spanish Cedar rowing shell for oarsman / oarswoman weighing up to 175 lbs is 25'-9" length
MORNING SONG is the sistership to Lin and Larry Pardey's TALEISIN and was meticulously built by K
