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SWEET DREAMS
Builder Name:
Doug Roberts
Violet Humphrys has had many sweet dreams while sleeping in her new cradle boat, SWEET DREAMS, built by her grandfather, Doug Roberts.
Cape Henry 21' Gaff Cutter
Builder Name:
Roeboats
A Dudley Dix designed Cape Henry 21′ that I recently built and launched for a Paris based customer. 3/8″ Okoume ply over ply bulkheads and Southern Yellow pine stringers, sheathed with 4oz glass on the bottom up to the first lap.
Petrel Play Kayak
Builder Name:
Mark Nye
Floridian Mark Nye recently built and launched this 14′ long Petrel Play kayak. Mark spent just under 135 hours, spread over five months,on the construction of this stitch-and-glue kit. He stained some of the hull pieces prior to construction of highlight the hull’s puzzle joints.
MINOQUA
Builder Name:
Paul F Edgar
Paul Edgar sent these pictures of his recently launched MINOQUA, a 22′ Princess sharpie from B & B Yacht Designs.
BRUXA DO MAR
Year Built:
started 1974, completed 2005 when I retired from Medical Research to Brazil
Self built 30ft sailing ketch, started in 1974 in the Netherlands and completed in 2005 in Brazil according to a self modified design of the English ship’s architect Maurice Griffiths circa 1956. Hull and mast construction entirely of wood.
KUHA
Year Built:
1930
Built at 1930’s in southern Finland. Mostly pine, as this region boats tend to be. Older boatbuilders say that this is wooden smaller copy of metal boats of the same times. Unfortunately is covered with fiberglass. She is one of two still exists, as far as I know.
Wood Duck Hybrid
Builder Name:
Neal Goman
Neal Goman of Minneapolis, Minnesota, built this 12′ Wood Duck Hybrid kayak from plans by by Chesapeake Light Craft.
COMRADE
Builder Name:
David and Shaw Clifton
When he was eight years old, Shaw Clifton and and his father, David, built this 8′ flat-bottomed skiff at the Toledo Wooden Boat Show in Toledo, Oregon. They named her COMRADE and rowed her for a while in a local pond, but Shaw’s interests turned elsewhere.