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CACHALOT
Year Built:
1970
Cachalot was commissioned by my late father, Peter Sturtevant, and built by his friend, Joel White, over the winter of '69-'70.
LILLIAN S.
Year Built:
1912
Built in Astoria, OR. in 1912 as a freighter but spent most of her working career in S.E. Alaska as a salmon trap tender. Massively built of old growth Fir, Lillian's frames are double sawn 8"x 8" on 16" centers except in way of the 16-foot long engine beds where they are on 8" centers.
Breeze
Designer
Alex Bogdanov
“Breeze” is a 10′ (3m) double paddle canoe. Two sheets of plywood needed. Stitch and glue construction using 3″(75mm) fiberglass tape in epoxy for all seams inside and out. The deciding factors when designing the boat were mostly the same as with all my designs - seaworthiness and lightweight.
Wee Lassie
Builder Name:
Andrew Green
Andrew Green recently launched his Wee Lassie canoe. This is the second Wee Lassie he has built. This one is 10′6″ long version weighing 31 lbs using the blue print plans created by Mac McCarthy and using instructions from his Featherweight Boatbuilding book.
Sapling
Designer
Kevin Coombs
A stately 10′ rowing/sailing tender originally designed for my own first time build which is currently underway. I wanted an easy to construct boat, yet still retain the techniques and appearance of traditional lapstrake planking.