Cat-rigged yawl. Glued plywood lapstrake construction from Shell kit, modified for beaching with bilge keels, reinforced with carbon fiber, outside hull skinned with kevlar at bow.

Build time: 5 yrs, 5 mos. & 5 days.

AURORA V was launched in April 1969 at the Annapolis Yard of John Trumpy & Sons on Spa Creek, MD.

KAI LAG was built on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait in 1933. She was used for pearling and harvesting Trochus Shell (for making buttons) before being commandeered during WWII to move troops and supplies from Australia up to New Guinea.

LIBERAL was built (oak on oak) as an oil supply boat in Skagen, Denmark, 1938. She was refitted for leisure and living aboard in the 1970s. There is central heating with boiler and 7 radiators. The power house is a Perkins 6 cyl. 120-hp.

Hooked on Wooden Boats interview with Pete Leenhouts on the restoration of RIPTIDE, recorded during the 39th Annual Port Townsend Wo