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DECADENCE
Northern White Cedar strip canoe with black walnut and cherry detail. Cedar tree cut down and strips milled by builder. No nail/staples construction method utilized.
Acorn Skiff
Designer Iain Oughtred’s first design, a whitehall-like skiff with two rowing stations. She is 11′9″ long and 3′11″ wide and light enough to car-top. Glued lapstrake with meranti plywood planking, mahogany transom, Douglas fir backbone, thwarts and gunwales, and teak floorboards and sternsheets.
Not-Yet-A-Name
This Auklet has been built last Winter by Ernst (54) und Tristan Glas (9) as a tender to their wooden sailing boat Rondine, a 13m sloop, finished in 1993. The Auklet is now sailing at rondines foredeck.
LAZY LUCY
Lazy Lucy was built to the Fenwick Williams’ design 8-C, a 21-foot catboat. The design was stretched to 23 feet, and the cabin raised and extended in consultation with Williams, giving the boat standing headroom below.
14th Star
I built this 18′ Palmer fantail launch to plans I obtained from Mystic Seaport Museum. The original boat was built around 1910 and had a Palmer gas inboard engine. I adapted the plans for modern strip plank construction and used western red cedar for planking, fiberglassed inside and out.
Woods Hole Skiff
This skiff was built at the Woods Hole Historical Museum Boatshop in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, from leftover parts and materials from from other projects. It is built from BS1088 marine plywood, local black locust, red oak, and mahogany.
MARY KATE
Nat Herreschoff COQUINA launched July 2017. Plans from Doug Hylan. 6 mm. glued lapstrake construction.
Shown minutes before launching with full rig in place.
W17 trimaran
A strong, capable folding trimaran with exceptional overall performance. Professionally designed to be dry and comfortable, yet fast and fun. Plans now in 33 countries and plywood kits available in the USA, Australia and Europe.