Joe Greeley launched POGO, a Footy model designed by Flavio Faloci, in 2015. Since then, she suffered severe damage in an accident in 2017 and spent the last two years “on the hard” undergoing repairs.
TREEBEARD is a custom designed and built 20′ gaff rigged sail boat. I designed at the Arques School of Traditional Boat building, and built it in my garage over a period of 6 years. The frames are bent white oak, and the planks and decking are douglas fir.
Thanks for the inspiration your magazine has given me to undertake a boat build. I started subscribing one month after your “Getting Started In Boats” section launched, and I have been a faithful reader of every issue since.
This is my prototype wooden boat built from 2012 to June 2019, with length 5m, width 2m, weight 1 ton, 75 hp, boarding capacity is 7.
A family member built this boat in Louisiana in the early sixties. I remember many early mornings fishing from it as a kid. I spent over 2 years restoring this 54 year old boat along with the original motor that I now use in Panama City, Florida.
Traditional plank-on-frame Beetle Cat built in 1984, the first year in which the coamings were book-matched. The Beetle Cat is one of the oldest one-designs still being constructed out of wood and actively raced.
From the The Australian Register of Historic Vessels: “SILVER CLOUD II is wooden motor cruiser built in 1968.
