When Mike Morris and Matt FitzGibbon discovered they both had a desire to build a boat, they decided to build one together. Using Canoe Craft by Ted Moores and The Stripper's Guide to Canoe Building by David Hazen, they constructed a 16' strip-built Abenaki model covered in Hazen's book.

Bob Linton of Rainbow Canoes designed and built this 20' x 37" asymmetrical flat-bottomed canoe with extreme tumblehome, caned seat backs, and a fan-shaped down wind sail.

Marc Ornstein designed and built this boat for interpretive freestyle paddling and often paddles it with the boat heeled all the way to the gunwales. It is a 13' long solo sport canoe weighing 29 pounds.

Colin Williams built this Mill Creek 13 kayak from plans by Chesapeake Light Craft. He uses her mainly in the estuary of the Crookhaven River and in Lake Woolumboolah near the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, near Jervis Bay.

Bob Case built this Arctic Tern kayak from a Pygmy Boats kit. It is 14' long with a 23" beam. He added a little artwork on the foredeck, an Inuit representation of an Arctic tern, with red eyes on a white background. He writes that the boat was a joy to build and a joy to paddle.

Dwight Jacobus calls his boat an "outboard cabin launch". Though he lives in Kentucky, he trailered PARASOL 1000 miles to southwestern Florida to launch her on January 15, 2003, after spending 15 months constructing her.

Per Crawford writes "EVINRUDE was officially launched on January 12, 2003 into the Waccamaw River at sunset. Per Crawford designed and built the 13'6" Carolina Skiff of 1/4" marine plywood, stainless steel fastened with 6 oz. Fiberglass overlay using the west system.

Rod's daughter Emma Grace Rishel co-owns this Alpha Dory with her dad. He build it using natural crook live oak frames, planking from a Douglas-fir log in Long Beach, Mississippi. The coamings, wales, and rails are from reclaimed longleaf yellow pine.

Bruce Lee writes of his newly built Arch Davis design Penobscot 14, "I built the boat in British Columbia, Canada before moving Sydney, Australia where I continue to do business as Lee Wooden Kayaks Canoes (Winner of Best Small Boat, Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival, 1999).

Michael Schefers uses this Eastport pram as tender for his sloop, HARMONY. He built her in two months in a friend's garage, using okoume and cypress wood with LapStitch construction. Launched on Thanksgiving Day, 2002, she has a length just under 8' and a beam of 4'.