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Frije Frosk is a Francois Vivier Design, type Meaban.I built her in the past three years in my garage.She is strip planked mahogany with Iroko decks, the bulkheads are build according to the egg box principle.A lot of brightwork, all epoxy and 2K UV transparent finishing.Gaff rigged with a small
Don Brady writes "SPLASH was launched at Royal Victoria Yacht Club May 16, 2003 and commissioned as tender to my yacht THETIS.
David and Benji Cantera, father and son, asked their friend, John Swain, a shipwright, to design and help them build a 10′8″ skiff, LEAPIN’ LENA. They covered the hull bottom, transom, and deck in marine plywood sheathed with Dynel cloth. They planked the hull in white cedar on white oak frames.
After 37 years as a superintendent and general superintendent at Howard S. Wright Construction, a Balfour Beatty company in Seattle, Washington, my retirement gift from my peers and the company was a complete Annapolis Wherry kit from Chesapeake Light Craft.
A family member built this boat in Louisiana in the early sixties. I remember many early mornings fishing from it as a kid. I spent over 2 years restoring this 54 year old boat along with the original motor that I now use in Panama City, Florida.
Some pictures of a just completed build of a Coastal Rowing single that I will row on local waters on both sides of Vancouver Island, where I live.
Martin Houston designed and built this mini-tugboat, JANI J, that he named for his wife, Janice Jeanette. The two of them built her over five years at their home in South Dakota, epoxying plywood onto fir frames, then covered with fiberglass cloth.
February 11th 2017, we launched RoG in Lake Tarpon, Florida. She went on to compete successfully in the Everglades Challenge 2017, a RAID class event between Tampa and Key Largo FL, where she was one of only 2 boats to complete the event out of 9 entries in Sailing/Solo class.
Hand built, One of a kind. Hull is sound, roof and rear wall of pilot house need repair.
BOAT HAS SOLD! "Thank you, Autumn. It took some time but it was well worth it." B.
Designed and built by the late Ray DeFir and his best friend, my late Step-Father, Gary Griffiths
Classic wooden rowboat (possibly Old Town).
Approximately 12’L x 4’W.
