On the Newstand and Digital Library Now - January/February 2025 Issue No. 302 Preview
Brittany-Jade
Builder Name:
Mark Wetherspoon
We launched our Penobscot 14 after Just under two years build time. All plywood is Hoop Pine. The stem, stringers, transom, and thwarts are all Tasmanian Blackwood, with the rest a mix of other Australian hardwoods.
Launched in Canberra and it rows like a dream.
MORNING WOOD
Builder Name:
Eric Du Pont
MORNING WOOD is a Chester Yawl I built from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit (CLC). She was slow in the making as I acquired the Whitehall kit in 2007. The box followed me through several moves and I started working on her in 2014, a few hours here and there, schedule permitting.
Mebo 12
Builder Name:
Klaus Metz
The Mebo 12 is a new versatile nesting dinghy I designed and built last winter and spring.
L20 Trimaran
Designer
Lorenzo B. Acompañado II
A modern iteration of Philippine double outrigger canoe. Adapting to present-day construction method, the wooden facetted hull still has the silhouette of the Austronesian “Bangka”.
BONITA
Year Built:
1935
Two-berth weekend cruiser designed in 1931 for cruising the western Solent. Oregon pitch pine planking on English oak and elm frames. Mahogany brightwork in cockpit and interior. Deck planks of mahogany and elm.
Ella I
Builder Name:
Carl Longnecker
Completed Chester Yawl, from plans at Chesapeake Light Craft. This is a working boat, intended for rowing by one or two on lake Erie. It has a work boat finish. The gravel beaches on this part of Lake Erie are very hard on the finish.
Redneck Duck
Designer
David Gray
This is a 64 page construction guide for building a class legal PDRacer from PolySail International. The guide includes plans and is illustrated with multiple photographs taken as the prototype was being built over a period of six days.