C'est le 17 mai 1902 que la revue Le Yacht proclame vainqueur ex-aequo le dessin réalisé par Gaston Grenier à l'occasion d'un concours de plans où 37 dossiers furent déposés.
ST. JACQUES construction began on Christmas Eve 2013 and finished up May 2017. The boat was built by the Lewis family in Navarre, Florida. The strakes are okume plywood, keel is white oak and the seats, gunwales and spars are cypress.
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 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.
The Mebo 12 is a new versatile nesting dinghy I designed and built last winter and spring.
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”.
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.
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.
