This Adirondack Guide-boat has a cedar stripped hull over steam bent spruce ribs. She has Curly maple stems and decks with Cherry deck caps. The gunwales and hand caned seats are cherry. The paddle is Cherry. The oars are hard maple. She has galvanized steal shoes.
The fly bridge was removed to meet the height restrictions for hauling over the road.
Owned since 2005 by current owner, the third owner since in 1971.
I built this Långedragsjulle 10 in Ekami, Wooden Boat Building School, Finland. The boat’s origin is from Western Sweden in early 20th century. Originally it ought to have a bermuda rig, but I wanted more simple rig for easy towing and launching.
Columbia Dinghy. Classic lapstrake dinghy from early 1900’s designed by Herreshoff.
Currently undergoing a restoration including a new keel and interior. Originally designed with a modified keel/centerboard, later fitted with a vertically retracting bulb keel. She will have a shoal draft fixed keel when restoration is complete.
On Monday, 8 August 2016, my Redmond Whisp rowing skiff TICKLE BEE became for the first time a sailing skiff.
This Chesapeake Light Craft Wood Duck 10′ hybrid strip kayak was built with white cedar, walnut, and Doug fir by Community Boat Building campers.
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.
