On the Newstand and Digital Library Now - July/August 2025 Issue No. 305 Preview
Shearwater Double Kayak
Builder Name:
Mark Nye
On June 17, 2015, Mark and Suzanne Nye launched their Shearwater Double at Silver Springs Florida. The kayak, built from kit by Chesapeake Light Craft, took approximately 135 hours over a six month period. Construction is stitch and glue with sapele deck and okume hull.
'ODENBACH
Builder Name:
Hans van der Zanden, Rik van der Zanden
One-off design
Hull: Plywood 7mm, 8 planks
Deck: Mahogany
Keel: Oak
Maststep: Oak
Spars: Douglas
Bowsprit: Oregon Pine
Sails: Dacron 4 oz, about 12 sq metres
JEMCHUJINA
Builder Name:
Aleksander Kovalenko
Aleksander Kovalenko from Kstovo, Russia (near Nijni Novgorod) built in less than one year Eider from Sam Devlin board.The boat sails now The Volga, the builder is happy. This is his first retirement project.
BLIGH
Year Built:
1980
BLIGH is a classic deep vee sports fisherman designed by C.Raymond Hunt & Assoc Inc. Boston, Massachusetts USA in 1979.
THE GROOVER
Builder Name:
Ryan McKeeman
Here we have a 16′ 1956 Dunphy runabout. When I found this gem, she was in an old hay barn sitting on a 1956 TeeNee trailer, hadn’t moved in 15 years. She was a one family boat passed on thru the family.
JLG
Year Built:
1900
14 foot skiff. She was built by the Skaneateles Boat and Canoe Company at the turn of the century. Cedar on steam bent oak ribs. Lapstrake.This beautifully constructed and superbly maintained boat is a wooden boat collectors item: Skaneateles Wooden Boat Show/Clayton Boat Museum quality.
COLNETT
Year Built:
1924
COLNETT is a 42′ motor cruiser which was built in 1924 by Seacraft Corp. in Wilmington, CA. She was built for Mr. Henry Vaughn, with sea trials and commissioning extending into early 1925. She was constructed to Edson B. Schock design #307.
SCHERZO
Year Built:
2015
This 14-foot Pacific Power Dory was built over 4 years. The hull design is the Seneca Power Dory by Jeff Spira. It was built by Murray Walker with help from his friends, Alex Johnson and Tom Hostetler.