SUSAN JOY

Builder Name:
Carl Frey

SUSAN JOY is a Newt design by Warren Jordan of Jordan Wood Boats of South Beach, Oregon. Carl Frey of Stamford, Connecticut, modified the 11'-design from a kayak to a rowboat by installing removable outriggers.  The outriggers extend the beam of the boat from 29" to 42".

PETER THE GREAT

Builder Name:
Randall Kleeman and his class at the Anglo-American School of Moscow

Randall Kleeman led a class of 12 students at the Anglo-American School of Moscow, Russia, in the construction of PETER THE GREAT, an Iain Oughtred Whilly boat design. The boat carries 80 sq ft of sail and weighs about 140 lbs.

Lawton Tender

Builder Name:
Dean Lohse

Dean Lohse of Jacksonville, Florida, is a recent graduate from Warren Barker's Fundamentals of Boatbuilding class at the WoodenBoat school.

Wood Duck Kayak

Builder Name:
Paul Newman

Paul Newman of Melbourne, Australia, just built a Wood Duck 12 Kayak from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit. He spent about 12 months on the stitch-and-glue plywood construction. The finished 12' boat weighs just 40 lbs. Paul will paddle his Wood Duck on the many waterways of his state of Victoria.

MARY T

Builder Name:
Bill Rintala

I built my John Welsford designed Houdini cat yawl in my garage. It took almost five years. The boat is constructed of okoume marine plywood, douglas fir and mahogany. The multi-chine hull was built with sawn plywood frames and douglas fir stringers.

BELLA

Builder Name:
Oliver Ilg & Sterling Yachts

Bella is a Duck Trap Wherry built for our family outings and she was named after my daughter's nickname. The construction method is glued lapstrake and I used 6mm Cedar plywood for the planking and Cedar on the brightwork.

CHARLIE M

Builder Name:
Dave Calloway

David Calloway wrote that a couple of years ago, he was infected with the boatbuilding bug.  He spent many enjoyable hours looking for boats to build on the internet before he decided on Jim Michalak's QT design.

War Canoe

Builder Name:
Robert Fraser

This 30' cedar-strip 15-person canoe (C15) had its launching and inaugural paddle on May 12th of this year.

KIWI II

Builder Name:
Kennith Tycer/Howard Berg

KIWI II is a development of New Zealander Richard Hartley’s Trailer Sailer 21 design. This boat was started as a retirement project by Kennith Tycer. Howard Berg purchased the unfinished boat in 1995 and with the permission of the designer added a bowsprit to improve its windward performance.

Lumber Yard Skiffs

Designer
Walter Baron

LYS stands for Lumber Yard Skiff. These rugged flat bottom work skiffs were originally designed to be built using materials readily found in most lumber yards- underlayment plywood and spruce framing.