KOBOLD was broken up by the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia after the storage building where she was located was sold, and no one wanted to take her.
Built in the original Beetle Boat builder’s shop in the winter of 1935-1936. This is believed to be the oldest Beetle Cat still sailing. Only 1 other older boat is known to still exist (built winter of 1934-1935), and it is in the collection of the Cape Cod Maritime Museum.
The colors she is painted are the colors she was delivered with to her owner in New Bedford, MA in 1955. A new plywood bottom was installed in 1986.
This 12 foot Wood Duck from Chesapeake Light Craft is a stich and glue design Kayak made from Okoume and Sapele marine plywood. My wife and I started in January 2014 and finished in July 2014.
Built in 1973 new for my Grandmother. In 1973, Concordia Co. put together 3 “test” Beetle cats with bronze fasteners before switching over entirely from iron in 1974. This is one of those “test” bronze fastened Beetle Cats.
Found in a barn in 2010, and restored to operational. The bottom has been fiberglassed. Built sometime in the late 1940’s.
UNCLE BENNY was owned by local Cape Codder Ben Baxter, (the founder of Baxter’s Boathouse restaurant in Hyannis) and was named after him by Connie Moore in 1956. UNCLE BENNY often could be found racing against the President John F. Kennedy’s Wianno Senior #94 VICTURA.
I launched Simmer Dim on Lake Champlain on Sept 20, 2014. The build took almost a year, having begun with a WoodenBoat School class in Annapolis in November 2013. I will make use of her mostly in Maine, Lake Champlain, Long Island Sound and pretty much anywhere in between.
EMMA is a replica of Norwegian rescue vessel RS 22 “Vardø,” designed by Colin Archer. She was built by Tom Pollmann in The Netherlands. The keel was laid in 1999; she was launched in 2008. The first trip on sail took place in the autumn of 2013.
The Walter Cordes family purchased the 1967 wooden Lyman from Cleveland, Ohio, in 2012 and restored her in the summer of 2013. Walt Cordes of Wyoming, Ohio, took the lead and coordinated all of the restoration and performed a majority of the work.