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GRACE
Builder Name:
Richard J. Jones
GRACE is a Hvalsoe 13 I just completed and launched. It’s designed as a traditionally built lapstrake sail/row boat that I converted to glued lap. She has a sprit rig and had a successful first sail yesterday. There is a building thread about her on the Forum.
VINST
Year Built:
1941
Designed by Knud H. Reimers and built by Rotholmens, Stockholm, Sweden VINST (S-246) represented the cutting edge of 22 square meter skerry cruisers.
MISS KIM
Builder Name:
Steve Detwiler
Traditional wood/canvas canoe: Rollin Thurlow-designed 13 ft American Beauty. Class-built at WB School summer of 2013 and finished by owner.
FAUN
Year Built:
1926
FAUN is a Blanchard Standardized Cruiser, built on Lake Union and launched in June, 1926 by the N.J. Blanchard Boat Company for W.N. Winter of Medina, Washington. Her designer is Leigh Coolidge. She is one of twenty-five 36′ Cruisers built by Blanchard, only a few of which survive today.
BONNIE
Builder Name:
Richard Lyons
A stripper that goes by the name BONNIE. Built from recycled pine, oak and black walnut. She’s a cross between a kayak and and a canoe… a kayoe if you will.