Launchings

This Wood Duck 12 kayak is the first boat that Rich Schmidt ever built. He built it for his wife and launched it in early spring.

Glass over plywood lug rigged pram 

The Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building builds Flat-Iron skiffs during the first semester of each year-long class. The school accepts commissions for boats from 11′6″ to 16′ long. If the class is building on speculation, the boats are usually 11′6″ or 12′6″ long.

A fibreglass sheathed strip built hull with plywood deck sailing canoe based on the lines of a D.N. Goodchild 1940’s canvas on wood frame sailing canoe of Barnegat Bay.

Relying on Nick Schade’s book The Strip-Built Sea Kayak, George Nourse built this Expedition single kayak from a kit by

Xaadas Tluuwaay (People’s Canoe) is the result of two years of dedicated work by carver Gitijang Stormy Hamar of Kasaan, Alaska. Crafted from a single piece of western red cedar, the canoe follows the traditional style of the Haida people of the Pacific Northwest.

OTTER’s inspiration is Philip Theil’s Escargot. She is, however, greatly modified to an “egg crate” assembly using Stitch and Glue. I had never used this method, but am SOLD!With all the plywoods used being saturated with thinned epoxy, here’s hoping for a long lasting build....

Launched June 26th 2017. Bear Mountain Endeavour 17′ at the Parc Nautique de Cap-Rouge in Québec.Built during the winter. 350 hrs. Cedar, pine, ash and a little walnut strip.

Cosine Wherry. John Hartsock designed it, Bob and Erica Pickett promoted it, J. D. Brown wrote the book (Rip, Strip, and Row).

Jackie Lih, age 7, helped her father, Arthur, to build this 8′ Grace's Tender from a kit by Arch Davis. They made the hull from 4mm okoume plywood on white pine frames.