Launchings

This rowing/sailing dinghy is based on George Cockshott’s 1913 design done for the British Boat Racing Association.

Joe Walsh of RI has been working on a writen history of a passing tridition. The Quahog skiff was a staple of the waterfront in Rhode Island for many years. Of late they are hard to find.

Doug Clough launched his Platt Monfort designed Nimrod 12 solocanoe in his hometown of Mystic, Connecticut. It is 11′6″ long and 34″ wide.

Annual launching event at Jamaica Pond in Boston, MA, USA by Boston Family Boat Building and the students of the Dennis Haley Pilot School. Check us out at www.bostonfamilyboatbuilding.org

Bella is a Duck Trap Wherry built for our family outings and she was named after my daughter's nickname. The construction method is glued lapstrake and I used 6mm Cedar plywood for the planking and Cedar on the brightwork.

Intended to get me out to where the fish were after spending an afternoon not catching anything from shore, but watching a fellow land one after another just beyond casting distance in the middle of the pond.Based off Andrew Waters’ “Trixie”, Richly Joined is the first boat I’ve ever built.

MYSTIC was designed and built to be used in the thin waters of Westport MA. She is hard chined, flat bottomed, and has a full keel with an inboard rudder. She was built with local woods and re-purposed hardware. All of her rigging was hand made.

Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, offers a one-semester "Practical Ship and Boat Design" course that "aims to get students comfortable with lines drawings by lofting a sailing model full scale," writes instructor David Bill.

Though he describes himself as a man with little money and no experience, Ed Mahoney decided the first boat he built would be a big one: a Didi 38 designed by Dudley Dix.

Roy Terwilliger acquired Snipe Class #3258 in 1972 and has spent several years restoring it. The boat was originally built in 1937 by Roger Gintling of Sparrows Point, Maryland, for a cost of $165.