Custom built cruising sailboat constructed with a 1 1/8″ thick spruce, edge nailed, strip-planked and West epoxy/10oz fiberglass hull and plywood and West epoxy/fiberglass decks and cabin.
1901 26′ Lozier launch. Restored by Cutts & Case 2006. Universal diesel LT 100 hours. Very good brightwork. Custom trailer. Climate controlled storage last 10 years. Located Deltaville, Virginia.
Home-built Bolger Cartopper rowboat. Stitch and glue plywood construction. Minor modification to design to provide a conventional fixed seat. Rigged solely for power / oar (no centerboard trunk).
Some pictures of a just completed build of a Coastal Rowing single that I will row on local waters on both sides of Vancouver Island, where I live.
“ZipKit” was the first prototype completed in the development of the Glen-L ZipKit. A complete wood parts kit offered by Glen-L Marine.
Launched my Skunk Island Skiff sailing version built from plywood and pine. Douglas fir mast, spars and oats. Stainless steel fasteners and hardware.
This is the 16ft version of the Sponge Docks Skiff Serie, built in wood/epoxy, specifically Meranti Hydrotec. She has a side console and a new Suzuki 40hp which got her up to 32mph.
This is an Arrow 14 geodesic canoe designed by Platt Monfort. I used spruce for the stringers, gunwhales, and rub rails, oak for the ribs, cutwaters, and keel, mahogany for the breasthook and knee stems, cherry for the gussets, and maple for the thwarts. The skin is 30 gauge vinyl.
Over a pandemic winter Carl Frey built the NOELLE Q, an 8′ long, 26-pound kayak (19″ beam) from his own plans.