AURA was first owned by a well-off Arizona mining family. They made arrangements with Norman C. Blanchard, son of the founder, for one of the 33 foot sloops, then under construction on spec, which they named AIRA.
The Swan is a CLC Light Craft “Wood Duckling 8” built over a two week period by 9 year-old McKenzie Kaufman and her grandfather Charles McParland of Tega Cay, SC. She was launched on August 6th on Lake Wylie in South Carolina.
Tiger Shark was built by Community Boat Building 5th graders from the Harvard-Kent School in Boston. They launched it this summer along with 11 other Periwinkles built by their classmates.
ADELINE is a Pelicano 20, a custom version of the Pelicano Bass Boat by Pacific Northwest Designer/Builder Sam Devlin. She was built in the spring of 2015.
I started this boat by buying a load of rough cut northern white cedar from a small family run sawmill in Danville Vt.
CRAZY HORSE was designed and built as CHALLENGE in 1992 by Ed Nelson. She is strip planked over laminated ribs with ply decks.
Everyone from Louisiana seems to remember that cypress pirogue boat Pawpaw kept in his barn. Cypress pirogues have since become a relic of the past. Pirogues are flat bottom boats designed to paddle shallow swamps and marshes.
Adapted from Bear Mountain plans for the Ranger canoe, this skin on frame canoe was launched by the owner Hank Li in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Construction is yellow cedar stringers on ash frames and with a mix of ash and yellow cedar trim.