This terrific wooden boat, designed by David Roberts, was built by my husband, David T. Bickel, for a fishing and dive boat around the Fort Myers Bay.
Jim Maas can fit his Sabotina dinghy into his minivan. Jim launched the 7′10″ Ken Hankinson design last July. He rows it on the lakes of eastern Pennsylvania. The hull is stitch-and-glue, built from okoume plywood. Jim took these pictures at Beltzville Dam.
Bob Ward, of Umatilla, Oregon, built this Baby Tender for his first grand niece, Caroline, who was born last September. The tender, named CAROLINE after her skipper, was launched in November.
UNGA is one of the very successful Narval class yachts, which was drawn by Germán Frers Sr. of Argentina in the 1950s, and has had the same name from the launch until today.
Michael Goodrich has read WoodenBoat for years and always wanted to send in his own new launching. When his son and daughter-in-law were expecting their own new launching with the birth of their first child, they asked Michael if he could build a co-sleeper for them.
Kwei U, of Mill Valley, California, had built model boats and airplanes for 50 years before deciding to build a full-sized boat.
Many changes since we listed RIPTIDE all those years ago for the first Register. Since then, she has been relocated from the Los Angeles area to the Puget Sound. MANY more wooden boats and much better boating!
Virginia Park is an elegant lapstrake launch. Featured in WoodenBoat #234, Sept. – Oct. 2013, Virginia Park is built in the glued lapstrake method with steam bent frames.
In the winter of 2012 a very good friend leant me an old copy of Nautical Quarterly. An article about Catboats caught my attention — I was and still am taken by their beautiful lines.I decided to design one with the aim of building it in the summer.
‘Volare’ comes in two versions. This is the utility version, the console version is available as a separate set of plans. They’re both 15′4″ long and 5′ wide.Her length is that of two sheets of 8′ plywood and she’s built in two halves (bow end and stern end).