After forty years of building skiffs and dories, first, under the tutelage of the old timer, Fred Tarbox, at Lowell’s Boat Shop and later as Parker River Boat Works, this will be my first published launching.
Last August, on Lake Erie, in Erie, Pennsylvania, Carl Longnecker launched his new 15′ Chester Yawl, built from a kit by Chesapeake Light Craft. The boat is stitch-and-glue construction.
Novice boater Norah Ketrow loves her new boat KELP, a present for her first birthday from her father, Aaron. The design is an Original Gloucester Rocker, built from plans sold by The WoodenBoat Store, www.woodenboatstore.com.
Rod Wright’s version of the Barto 16′ melonseed (WB plan#120). She’s built of spanish cedar, sipo, ash and white oak; and sports a sail sewn 13from a Sailrite kit.
This is my latest design for the Twopointfour metre class. An easy to build lowbudget boat ment to be competetive on the race course.
My Stradivari 2.4 Hc came to be as someone once told me that there’s one thing you can’t do and that is to build a true metre yacht in plywood. Now it’s a statement that is denied by reality.
HDML KUPARU was built in the USA as a Harbour Defense Motor Launch during WWII. 76 x 72 feet long, and built with Oregon, she was part of the RNZN (New Zealand Navy) until 1994, then was sold into private hands. Unused for years, she ended sitting up on the hard, unloved and rotting.
ELLEN C WELLS is a compact fishing schooner built of 1½″ mahogany strips over white oak. Split cabin with fir decks, fir spars, and white pine house sides with plywood and Dynel cabin tops. Interior is traditional Herreshoff-type of finish with white paneling and natural mahogany accents.
Based on Tom Gillmer and Iver Franzen’s New Moon (an enlargement on Gillmer’s Blue Moon), this sailing vessel is intended to be a stout, seaworthy, offshore-capable passagemaker, with an emphasis on the balance between comfortable sea-keeping and good sailing abilities.