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Cottage Cruiser

Builder Name:

Andreas Taylor

15′6″ Cottage cruiser. Local red cedar, cherry and white oak. Hand woven cane seats.

SUNSHINE

Builder Name:

J. Keith MacKenzie

J. Keith MacKenzie started construction on this Jay Benford dinghy in 2002. A 74 years of age, Keith thought it was time he built a rowing boat. He got materials and help from Captain Jim Shotwell of Nescopeck, PA.

FINNISHED

Builder Name:

Ed Lungren

Ed Lungren writes "With a nod to my forbears and amazement at final completion, FINNISHED swam September, 2002, in Lake Gogabic's healing waters. The Catspaw dinghy is carvel planked with local northern white cedar on white oak stem, keel, and frames.

MIMI

Builder Name:

William Leake

William Leake likes the look of strip-built canoes but his wife prefers the look of lapstrake canoes. He thought a hybrid model—strip-planked on the bottom half and lapstrake above that—might be the solution to both of them getting what they want.

VAL

Builder Name:

Ed Proefke, Jr

Bucephalus

Builder Name:

Rob Comstock

This Adirondack Guide-boat has a cedar stripped hull over steam bent spruce ribs. She has Curly maple stems and decks with Cherry deck caps. The gunwales and hand caned seats are cherry. The paddle is Cherry. The oars are hard maple. She has galvanized steal shoes.

STINA

Builder Name:

Peter Hecht

Name of Boat "STINA"

Boats length 3,66 mtrs
Beam 1,56 mtrs

Type: Ewerboot, constructed by Shipwright Günter Pehrs/Glückstadt/Germany (passed away 2016)

built by Peter Hecht/Glückstadt/Germany

NIKKI FRENCH

Builder Name:

Fred Sneider

A Chesapeake Light Craft Northeaster Dory with a sloop rig. Hull was built at the WoodenBoat School last fall under the tutelage of John Harris. Completed fittings and finished in my garage in Falmouth, MA. Launched in West Falmouth Harbor, on Cape Cod, MA.

SASSAFRASS 14 CANOE

Builder Name:

Richard Knight

Richard Knight built this Sassafras 14 canoe from a kit designed by CLC using 4 mm okoume planks, which resulted in a finished weight of just over 42 pounds. He found the lapstitch construction to work well, the hull easily came together straight and true.