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My son and I built this CLC stitch and glue Eastport Pram to serve as our dinghy for our Passport sailboat. We wanted something that was light weight, easy to use, and not a typical inflatable.
LOTTE was built in 1928 by Lake Union Drydock in Seattle. She was moved to Vermont in 2008 and has undergone substantial renovation including cold molding the hull from waterline to keel and is now repowered with a BMW marine diesel.
Walter graduated from Westlawn Institute and now has his own business designing yachts now. He launched this boat in July of 2005 and it is used as a yacht tender. He writes, "She can carry 3 adults comfortably in protected waters.
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
Built Six years ago in Perth Western Australia. Relaunched after health issues prevented sailing for a while.
Higher Freeboard, Self Draining Cockpit Deck and Sail furling added to Gary Deirkings design.
After 13 years of part-time building, Bob Cosler, of Pasadena, Maryland launched ALEX-ELECTRA in July 2021. Built from Berkeley Engineering plans for the Candu EZ tug she is powered by a 10 hp golf cart motor running from six, 6 -volt Trojan batteries.
IRONDEQUOIT II was launched again last summer after an extensive paint job at Ventis in Enkhuizen (the Netherlands). Her hull, decks and masts were painted and all her mahogany was varnished again.
This Glen-L marine Zip runabout was built by Paul Vernes in "just over seven months....time was readily available but, to be quite honest, much of it was spent running around looking for wood. I decided to build my boat using local wood.
Today (7-26-20) is the day after many hours and years of life, that I get to finally launch my new canoe.It is a 13′ 7″ MACGREGOR canoe designed by Iain Oughtred.
Deborah A. Simmons of East Hartford, CT, built the ...
Meraboire 1, one of the last known Pinaud motor yachts, is for sale.
39' sloop currently undergoing full cosmetic refit at Cutts and Case in Oxford, MD.
Custom built at Madisonville Maritime Museum. 2019 19' magic tilt galvanized trailer.
