Chesapeake Light Craft strip built hybrid by Bob Silverman (2nd time boatbuilder) - wood duck hybrid 12 with white alaskan cedar and red western cedar planks. Took me 2 months and really enjoyed the build.
Tolman Alaskan Skiff
22′6″ Widebody
Start 12 June 2020
Flipped 04 October 2020
Floated 02 May 2021
Tolman Alaskan Skiff
22′6″ Widebody
Start 12 June 2020
Flipped 04 October 2020
Floated 02 May 2021
CHRISTABEL is an Acorn 15, Whitehall style pulling boat, designed by Iain Oughtred. I built her as a sister ship to EMMELINE, my peapod pulling boat. Each boat has unique handling characteristics and each is a joy to row.
This boat is a Caledonia Yawl. Distinguishing Features are as follow:
This custom kit was developed using Glen-L Zip plans .The precision CNC cut complete wood kit allows you to begin assembling your boat the minute you unpack it...no tracing, measuring, or cutting needed! Thanks to Glen-L Marine Design!
Beetle Cat, hull #1545, built 1972.First delivered to Mr. Lea Spring of Crookston, MN, in 1972. Early bronze-fastened boat. At Mr. Spring’s premature passing, boat caretakers were the Hirsh family from approximately 1973-4 to JUL 2021.Purchased by me in JUL 2021; renamed from BOREAS to SPAT.
Custom built cruising sailboat constructed with a 1 1/8″ thick spruce, edge nailed, strip-planked and West epoxy/10oz fiberglass hull and plywood and West epoxy/fiberglass decks and cabin.
Home-built Bolger Cartopper rowboat. Stitch and glue plywood construction. Minor modification to design to provide a conventional fixed seat. Rigged solely for power / oar (no centerboard trunk).
Some pictures of a just completed build of a Coastal Rowing single that I will row on local waters on both sides of Vancouver Island, where I live.