CHARM was the third schooner designed and build by Ned Ackerman. Her keel was laid in a barn at the foot of the Camden Snow Bowl in the summer of 1999. Ned single-handedly built her hull over the course of the next 10 years.
Re-launching of a 9 ft. Ken Douglas lapstrake row boat after some minor repairs, paint and varnish.
This boat is a John Harris design know as the Skerry and was built from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit. This was my first boat build and was accomplished in my spare time over about 10 months and a couple of weeks.
The Tolman Skiff has a Dory heritage with a “V” bottom and was designed to handle the inland and open waters of Alaska and is a very capable ocean skiff.
WAYWARD is a box barge, off-centerboard, split-junk rigged cat-ketch.
The F/V SHENANDOAH is being conserved at the Harbor History Museum in Gig Harbor, Washington [2019]. She was donated in 2000 to be a teaching vessel after a seven-decade career tending in Alaska and fishing the San Juan Islands salmon banks.