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My son and I built this CLC stitch and glue Eastport Pram to serve as our dinghy for our Passport sailboat. We wanted something that was light weight, easy to use, and not a typical inflatable.
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.
ROBERT AND REBECCA is a model ca. 1890 barquentine that sails under her own power. Captain Yo of Southwest Harbor, Maine, designed and built the 64″ model.
Lightweight (35 lbs.), easily portaged, solo canoe. Cedar strip/epoxy kit from Newfound Woodworks in Bristol, NH. Perfect for flyfishing with a fairly wide beam and relatively flat bottom. Tracks well with a keel and very little above water exposure to be blown around by the wind.
Okoume plywood-glued lapstrake; genuine mahogany thwarts, floors and floor boards; sapele stem, transom, knees, and gunwales; Douglas fir spar; cherry oars.
This is the most recent of two Abenaki kits I have built (materials supplied by Newfound Woodworks of Bristol, NH). It was a joy to build and even more fun to paddle. My wife and I launched this canoe on Drakes Creek in Franklin, KY on October 10th, 2021. It tracked nicely was very stable.
Today (7-26-20) is the day after many hours and years of life, that I get to finally launch my new canoe.It is a 13′ 7″ MACGREGOR canoe designed by Iain Oughtred.
Construction began in 2002 with a set of plans and a stack of wood and finally finished in 2018. Starting a business, raising three kids, selling a business all got in the way — excuses, excuses, I know. Lola was planked with okoume plywood with mahogany knees, inwales, skeg, and breasthook.
Gypsy is a 14′ dory built over the winter by Bill Blanas with the help of his minions George Rhodes and Adrian Reinhardt. It is built primarily of Sitka spruce, and was launched this September at Jewel Lake in Anchorage, Alaska, in a carnival-like atmosphere.
Located in Mystic, Connecticut - 3 staterooms and salon with A/C units, sleeps 8 - well maintaine
Wood hull built with meticulous and painstaking detail from a kit using a "stich-and-glue" method
