Historic Spanish Point is an archaeological site and museum on 30 acres of water front on Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey, Florida. HSP runs a maritime boat building and repair program on the original site of Frank Guptill’s 1890s boat yard.
13′ Doug Hylan Beach Pea. Glued lap, okoume ply planking, black locust sheerstrake, stems and keel. Eastern white cedar thwarts and floorboards.
Ron Bauer built this model skiff to go with the model of his Bunker & Ellis picnic boat. The scale of the skiff model is 1'' = 1'.
13 foot sport kayak to be used on Nantucket Sound and the harbors and backwaters of Cape Cod.
KATIE MACK was built in 1932 by J.D. & W.L. McGregor as HOALOHA in Vancouver, B.C., with no interior as a rumrunner, converted into a yacht by Boeing Canada in 1936. Sold to the U.S.
Manasek was traditional construction - in old times used by Scouts in Czech republic. It was easy to build — just from three wide boards. It was paddled by double blade paddle.
Backsplash = backpack kayak.
Combine hiking and paddling
Go to fishing on remote lakes,
Build when storage space is limited.
Living on city? – take a boat on your back and walk to shore to for paddling?
North Carolina resident Bob Curtis recently celebrated the launching of his BABY TENDER II in December 2017, when his granddaughter and brand-new boat captain, Laine Irene Butler, arrived home home from the hospital.
An Auklet, drawn by Iain Oughtred, built during past winter in the evenings, while hearing good music, finding a center between boat design, wood, music, my hands, tools and myself. It’s supposed to be a tender for my S/Y Rondine, driven by oars and an electric outboards.
