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Kajoo the skin on frame kayak. 90% lashed, the only one element which is glued it is a cockpit. In future all constriction will be lash.Design by Marcin Bober and Miroslaw Sziwa.
Robert Johnston gave this 17' Redbird canoe that he built to his brother, James Johnston, for James' 50th birthday. Robert used bead-and-cove cedar strips for the hull, then covered them with two coats of epoxy.
The Pride of Buffalo, designed and built by Michael R Weekes is a 16′ long, 10′ wide, 9′ high geodesic houseboat inspired by R Buckminster Fuller. It was launched at Canalside on the Buffalo waterfront at the Western Terminus of the Erie Canal on Thursday, July 25th.
Jim Rester built this 14′ Kaholo paddleboard from a kit by Chesapeake Light Craft. The hull is made from okoume plywood, with a mesquite transom. Jim made the paddle from black walnut.
Jason Perkins teaches a boatbuilding class at Kingswood High School in Wolfeboro, NH and built this 16' E.M. White-designed White Water canoe with his class.
Andre Cloutier took a course in March 2007 at the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY with John Summers on how to build a 16/30 canoe. He took home the unfinished boat and continued working on it until the launch in early August 2007.
ARTEMIS is a John Atkin design, (#772 Wanderer), that my father started building in 1957 and I finished and launched here in VT in 2005. Well, finished is not correct as I am still working on her, and re-fitting her for her 20th anniversary on the water next year.
Builders are David Reid, Seamus Whoriskey and Louis Bistrong in a class taught by Jeff Lane assisted by Fritz Fuller at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum in Essex, Massachusetts. The Bevin's Skiff was built in three and a half days and is a great boat for the Essex River.
I recently sent this letter to Jeff Spira or www.spirainternational.com to express my appreciation for providing plans on his 20ft Carolina Hatters V Hull dory that my father and I spent the last 9 months building...the boat is built better than mos
When Jim Underwood of Yorktown, Virginia, started working on the glued-lap York River 12 skiff WE THREE, she had been lying upside down on the ground for several years. Consequently, she had a lot of rot on the top of her transom and stem (see picture at bottom).
Built by owner in 2023 to lines and offsets in The Dory Book by John Gardner.
BOAT SOLD! ENGINE STILL AVAILABLE
CHANTEY II - Douglas Fir Strip Planking, West System Epoxy construction. 51' overall.
