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.

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.

Carmel Dodds built this 14' Jimmy Skiff, from Chesapeake Light Craft, with her husband Peter so she could take her dog, Skeetwing, swimming at Crab Bank in Charleston, South Carolina. This stitch-and-glue kit boat was launched in October of 2001 on Horse Creek in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Fueled by WoodenBoat, Steve Hutchins has long wanted to design and build boats. Here are two CLC boats he built. The second one, that he built for a customer in Florida, is a Mill Creek 15 designed by Chesapeake Light Craft.

Eric Blumhagen writes "I built SOLACE with the able assistance of my wife, my idea woman. After a year and a half of work, I launched it on November 12, 2000. It now hangs from our living room ceiling when not being used on Washington lakes.

Norm Hines and Charlie Stolz designed and built this boat to be used for recreational rowing within the coral reefs of Fiji. They used local hard wood and marine plywood with a modified stitch-and-glue technique to build BUSA. It took them just four weeks using only hand tools.

Rick Hooper and Ann Marie Mozdziak designed and built this rowing skiff. Constructed of luan plywood and Douglas fir, WEHDGEE is 11' long with a 5' beam. She was launched on November 7, 2000 in Boca Ciega Bay, St Pete Beach, FL.

Chris DeFirmian is a woodworker in Santa Barbara, CA who uses his dinghy LARK to transport himself and his tools to jobs about the harbor. LARK is equipped with a center-lifting hatch to keep his tools dry.

Paul Bennett of Shoestring Shipyard designed this Pilgrim's Pride 16 built by Jimmy Helms of Charlotte, NC. Jimmy writes that it was his first big project and a pleasure to build, going together just as the designer said it would.

Father and son, Roy Davis Sr. and Roy Davis Jr., built this 15'10" lapstrake, flat-bottom skiff THE LONG POINT over about 15 months, from June 1999 to September 2000. Thomas J. Hill, of Burlington, MA is the designer. They power it with a 30-hp Mercury outboard.