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This a my build of the Chesapeake Light Craft, Skerry.
It is classic working, rowing sailer with a Scandinavian design.
This boat is a John Harris design know as the Skerry and was built from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit. This was my first boat build and was accomplished in my spare time over about 10 months and a couple of weeks.
Jenny is a 17LT from CLC Boats designed by Nick Schade built by Andy Welsh.
Rod's daughter Emma Grace Rishel co-owns this Alpha Dory with her dad. He build it using natural crook live oak frames, planking from a Douglas-fir log in Long Beach, Mississippi. The coamings, wales, and rails are from reclaimed longleaf yellow pine.
Sam Schaner built this 16'10' cedar-strip kayak, designed by Joe Greenley of Redfish Kayaks, using Western red cedar, basswood, walnut, and oak. It is the Spring Run model, 16'10" long with a beam just under 2 feet.
With a design by Sam Devlin, owner Dan Taylor built this stitch and glue cruiser out of Okumo plywood. The cabin is finished with Doug fir and Alaskan yellow cedar. It took just over two years to complete with help from family and friends.
Kevin Moroney of Cape Coral, Florida, was building an 18′ modified sharpie skiff when his grandson, Colin, was born in Denver, Colorado, last year.
28′ scow hulled catamaran constructed from marine ply and reclaimed wood. Built in Falmouth, Maine, by Steve King and Rick Keith.
14′ SUP built from a kit from Fiberglass Supply for cruising around the San Juan Islands in Washington State.
Cadenza was built in 2003 by Rockport Marine from a design by L. Frances Herreshoff.
