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.
1942 Halvorsen Cruiser. Purchased in Sydney, trucked to Hobart and spent 2.5 years out of the water, undercover rebuilding. Cabin sides and windscreen had been damaged by rot. Double diagonal oregan planking on the hull which when stripped back was in excellent condition.
After purchasing the plans in 2007, I didn't start building until 2012 when life, work, and materials lined up.
Bell Woodworking GP14 #5942. Recently purchased in Pennsylvania and returned to the Southern NJ shore after a 32 year long “Sleep” in a barn near Quakertown.
This canoe is based on the Laughing Loon Wee Vera plans for a 10ft canoe. I stretched the plans out to 12ft. It is a cedar strip design.
SF Pelican 12 foot: Three sheets of drawings, step-by-step building instructions, sail plans, lists for materials and hardware, and sailing handling information.
Note: Drawing plans come in pdf format and can be printed to full hard copy format.
Folkboat 16 is a light boat of simple design for those who like classic Folkboat, but do not want to have a lot of problems. In the cabin enough space to sleep two people and large lockers for storage.The project included the files for cutting parts on a CNC or a plotter.
40′ on deck and 49′ with bow sprit, S.Y. RAVENSONG was built by Denis Brown in Ventura California and launched in 1934. Her hull is 38mm thick, single stripped plank construction of Californian Red Cedar from the giant redwood forests. Mast and spars are Canadian Oregon and Canadian Spruce.
I helped my friend Glenn Strombo build this Adirondack Guide Boat to the plans found in “Building an Adirondack Guide Boat” by Michael J. Olivette and John D Michne.We shortened the length by 16 inches to utilize more readily available 16 foot cedar planking stock.