Launchings

Newfound Woodworks of Bristol, New Hampshire was the source for this Adirondack Guide Boat kit built by Michael Cruden of Ballston Spa, New York.

Though he describes himself as a man with little money and no experience, Ed Mahoney decided the first boat he built would be a big one: a Didi 38 designed by Dudley Dix.

Aaron Avery built a Ken Swan Nez Perce 13 design 13'6" outboard fishing skiff in his garage. He used marine plywood and vertical grain Douglas fir. The boat is powered by a 1956 10-hp Johnson outboard.

Scotland Island, on Pittwater, a large body of water about 30 miles north of Sydney, Australia, is the home port of this 20' Oxford rowing shell designed by Chesapeake Light Craft.

1971, 60′ Pacemaker. I completed a rebuild to her bottom over the last 2 summers including the aft 30′ of inboard engine stringers, the aft 28 ribs from the keel through the turn of the bilge, the aft 12′ of the keel, aft 10′ of the keelson, and new stem, apron and knee and 73 planks.

Frank Crumbaugh spent most of Summer 2015 at the WoodenBoat School. He brought home a Fundamentals Class Catspaw dinghy, finished her over the Winter 2015-2016, and launched on 25 August 2016.

Launched 11/6/2016, Lake Cochituate, Framingham, MA, CLC Wood Duck 12 Hybrid. Kept me sane through chemo and radiation.

Dream bid, never quit, never surrender.

- Nick Lukianov

Tammie Norrie 15 foot dinghy
My first boat !

I started her late 2017 but in March 2018 I quit my job and worked on her every day.

TWINKLE (yup, that’s her name) was conceived on April 15, 2017 and launched on July 30. Her home is Rocky Mount, NC. She is a Chesapeake 17 sea kayak from Chesapeake Light Craft. Made of Okoume marine plywood, epoxy, fiberglass, varnish and more than a little blood and sweat.

“Inspired by Mathew Murphy’s article, ‘A Solo Canoe for Double Paddle’ (Small Boats 2007), a 10′6″ version of Harry Bryan’s Fiddlehead is now being paddled around the bays and beaches of the Bucklands Peninsula” in New Zealand, writes Tony Hinde.