ISHTAR

Builder Name:
Gorden and Guthrie Schweers

Gorden Schweers had taken a two-week course on building a dory from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Townsend, WA before building this modified faering with his son Guthrie.

WEE LASSIE

Builder Name:
John Hudson

John Hudson modified this Wee Lassie canoe designed by Mac McCarthy by adding decking fore and aft. He used cedar strip planking over Douglas fir stems, then added fiberglass cloth and epoxy. The paddle is made from aspen and cedar.

CHOTARA 1

Builder Name:
Mike and Billee Gearheard

Mike and Billee Gearheard sail the 9'6" Nutshell Pram they built on Puget Sound and Matz Matz Bay in Washington State. They named this Joel White design CHOTARA 1. Launched on March 30, 2002, she is of glued lapstrake construction, and carries a lug mainsail.

M & M 1

Builder Name:
Mike Morris and Matt Fitzgibbon

When Mike Morris and Matt FitzGibbon discovered they both had a desire to build a boat, they decided to build one together. Using Canoe Craft by Ted Moores and The Stripper's Guide to Canoe Building by David Hazen, they constructed a 16' strip-built Abenaki model covered in Hazen's book.

MUDDY NOSE 2000

Builder Name:
Bob Linton

Bob Linton of Rainbow Canoes designed and built this 20' x 37" asymmetrical flat-bottomed canoe with extreme tumblehome, caned seat backs, and a fan-shaped down wind sail.

JUN BUG

Builder Name:
Marc Ornstein

Marc Ornstein designed and built this boat for interpretive freestyle paddling and often paddles it with the boat heeled all the way to the gunwales. It is a 13' long solo sport canoe weighing 29 pounds.

MILL CREEK 13 KAYAK

Builder Name:
Colin Williams

Colin Williams built this Mill Creek 13 kayak from plans by Chesapeake Light Craft. He uses her mainly in the estuary of the Crookhaven River and in Lake Woolumboolah near the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, near Jervis Bay.

ARCTIC TERN KAYAK

Builder Name:
Bob Case

Bob Case built this Arctic Tern kayak from a Pygmy Boats kit. It is 14' long with a 23" beam. He added a little artwork on the foredeck, an Inuit representation of an Arctic tern, with red eyes on a white background. He writes that the boat was a joy to build and a joy to paddle.

PARASOL

Builder Name:
Dwight Jacobus

Dwight Jacobus calls his boat an "outboard cabin launch". Though he lives in Kentucky, he trailered PARASOL 1000 miles to southwestern Florida to launch her on January 15, 2003, after spending 15 months constructing her.

EVINRUDE

Builder Name:
Per Crawford

Per Crawford writes "EVINRUDE was officially launched on January 12, 2003 into the Waccamaw River at sunset. Per Crawford designed and built the 13'6" Carolina Skiff of 1/4" marine plywood, stainless steel fastened with 6 oz. Fiberglass overlay using the west system.