On the Newstand and Digital Library Now - January/February 2025 Issue No. 302 Preview
DULCINEA
Relaunched after nearly 30 years. The boat has been refinished, the engine has been thoroughly serviced and a fuel pump added. What a sweet little boat, they just don't build them like this anymore. The hull is molded birch and as sound as new.
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She is a Big Ben Garvey designed by Doug Hylan. A wedding gift for my younger daughter and her husband Casey and Joe Bedard she was only about two years late but the new owners love it. She is epoxy/fiberglass over fir plywood with a simple painted finish and unfinished red cedar floorboards.
ESCALATION
Escalation was recently adopted into our family. While being loved, enjoyed, and fished, she will be slowly modified, upgraded, and restored over the next few years. She is a beautiful sportfish with lovely lines, and deserved to be saved.
Kayak
Asher Molyneaux built this kayak as a homeschooling project in winter/spring 2014. The frame is made of spruce, cedar and ash. The skin is ballistic nylon coated with two part urethane coating. The paddle is poplar.
NARWHALI
NARWHALI, originally christened AVALON, was constructed over a seven year period by first owner Mike Rostron in Skagway and Haines, Alaska, and launched in the summer of 1998 in Haines. She is a hard-chined double-ended cutter with bowsprit and boomkin—an unmodified Buehler Emily design.
NEPTUNIA
30′ Mahogany twin cabin cruiser under restoration. Built by Bröderna Johansson in Sweden 1958-’59. Indenor 4-cyl 75hp diesel (similar to Volvo Penta MD21) will be swapped for a one-owner 1965 Humber Super Snipe by Rootes Marine, a 3-litre inline six petrol, rated @ 134hp.
Gloucester Rocker
Wolfgang Müller of Beckdorf, Germany, recently launched this Gloucester Rocker that he built for his nephew Jannis. Though only a year old, Jannis took command of his first ship with pleasure.
Nøkken
I signed on for the October 2013 CLC/WoodenBoat Skerry class in Annapolis, with my husband, Wes, assisting, had a great week building the Skerry hull under the expert guidance of instructor Geoff Kerr.After a five-month hiatus enforced by lack of winter workspace, I was finally able to complete t