SAM'S SMILE

Builder Name:
Chris Bullen

Chris Bullen started building SAM'S SMILE in February 2000. Rascal is 14'8 x 5'6" Ken Bassett Rascal design. Launched in May 2001, he named it SAM'S SMILE as he could not "keep the grin off his face whenever he went into the garage to work on it.

CLANCY CLASS SAILING DINGHY

Builder Name:
David Lester

David Lester sails this boat in Puget Sound near his home in Fox Island, WA. She is a Clancy class sailing dinghy designed by J. D. Brown and Bob Pickett of Anacortes, WA. David constructed her of 1/4" okoume plywood using the stitch-and-glue method. She has a 9'9" LOA with a beam of 4'.

KEEPER

Builder Name:
Don Brophy, rebuilder

Don Brophy writes "While searching for a Lyman, Everett Foster happened across an aricle in WB on MacKenzie Cuttyhunks.

MURRAY'S ARK

Builder Name:
Irv, Murray, and Jan Herman

Irv, Murray, and Jan Herman adapted this 12' Whitehall from a 14' boat built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1890, and launched in on May 6, 2001. The Howard Chapelle drawings are in the Smithsonian Institution Maritime collection, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC.

MAKAI

Builder Name:
Brian Maiorano

Bear Mountain Boat Shop of Peterborough Ontario provided the plans for this 16' Chestnut Prospector Canoe built by Brian Maiorano of Missoula, Montana. He named her MAKAI, which is Hawaiian for "toward the ocean".

NA HUI HUI A MAKA LILI

Builder Name:
Ben Travis

NA HUI HUI A MAKA LILI is Hawaiian for "Seven Sister Stars". It is also the name of Ben Travis' sailing outrigger canoe. Built in April of 2001, it is 16' long with a 30" beam. The unusual sail was cut from a parachute. Ben calls the rig a sprit-half-gaff rig.

MODIFIED CANOE

Builder Name:
John Horst

John Horst writes "I designed and built (actually just built) this 16' x 4' boat for rowing and fishing on Cabbage Creek and the ICW in Ponte Vedra, FL." He used 5/16" cypress planking over resorcinol-laminated ash frames.

SHAUNTI

Builder Name:
Thomas Mayenburg

Thomas Mayenburg built this 12' 8" car-top Modified McInnis Bateau with his brother and a friend. The design is from John Gardner's Building Classic Small Craft, Vol. 2. They used 3/8" plywood on the bottom, and 3/8" red cedar strakes.

THE CELT

Builder Name:
Lloyd Worthington

At age 79, Lloyd Worthington is still turning out boats. THE CELT is a Iain Oughtred Fulmar design, 16'8" x 5'10", that Lloyd built using cold-molded methods. He used hoop pine Australian marine plywood over red Meranti frames and stringers, then covered the hull with Bote-Cote marine epoxy.

WATERMELON

Builder Name:
Kevin and Pat Clair

Kevin and Pat Clair of Carrollton, Texas launched WATERMELON in March 2001. At just under 8' long, this kayak is a tight fit for paddler. She is a "V8" design from Versatile Marine of Carrollton Texas. The hull is made from 3 mm okoume plywood, and the deck from 1.5mm okoume.