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I started building my Melonseed Skiff in 2017 and finished it in 2021. Because I do not have a garage or large shed, I did work outdoors from May to November (living in Sherbrooke, Québec).
5 new canoes hit the water in Pender Harbour last weekend as part of the 12th annual April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge. Built by students at Pender Harbour Secondary, they were raced around a course in the harbour in pursuit of fame and fortune.
The Center for Wooden Boats recently launched the newly restored Blanchard Jr Knockabout (BJK) Pamela in Seattle, WA. This project focused on providing young people the opportunity to learn traditional boatbuilding skills over the span of the last two years.
Walter Hansen completed this glued lapstrake tender in April 2011, just in time for the Keels and Wheels Concours d’Elegance in Seabrook, Texas, at which he received a Corinthian Award.
Elizabeth Shay of Pocatello, Idaho, is very lucky to have Paul Shay as her grandfather. Paul built Elizabeth a canoe of her very own, a 10′ Nymph designed by Nick Schade.
Dennis Hefling and his son built this 17'5" cedar-strip canoe from plans that Dennis drew up.
Over a period of a few months in 2008 Shelburne, Nova Scotia craftsmen and volunteers built two 23-foot boats from plans of the launch carried by Capt. Bligh's HMAV BOUNTY.
Alan Powell uses this 9' skiff for fishing and exploring the Berowra Waters on the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney, Australia. She is a Karl Stambaugh "Weekend Skiff 3" design that appears in the book Good Skiffs.
Our own Nutshell Pram, built during 2013, and launched on November 25, 2013 in the waters of the Rio de la Plata, Port of San Isidro, Argentina.
Rick Granger built this Chesapeake Light Craft Wood Duck 10 over six weeks in the winter of 2010-2011. The 10' hull weighs just 34 pounds and is made from 3mm okoume plywood, with a deck of western red and white cedar strips.
19.5' Teak planked and deadwood. Copper riveted. Hull is tight, sound and pretty.
Cruising sharpie designed and built by Karl Stambaugh Chesapeake Marine Design, LLC
Navoo 30′ express cruiser - rebuild completed in May 2018 by Paul Rollins in York, Maine.
