Eric is working on a Sam Devlin desinged Stitch and Glue duck boat. The picture below shows the hull just after it has been stitched. You can see more of Eric's work on his web page at: Eric Patterson's Duck Boat

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William L. Anderson's FEET

A 39' Kurt Hughes designed catamaran for cruising and day charter(modifications include a hard dodger((with center access to the fore deck and a small halyard and reefing cockpit)) ,rub rail and stretch by three feet.)

See pictures on Bill's page : http://members.aol.com/wla39/index.html

Bruce Gray's Bolger/Payson projects

Okay, so you want some pictures, here goes. The sailboat is a Bolger designed Windsprint, which I have built
two of, the second being the one that I had the longest. Made out of regular 1/2 and 3/8 ply, nice boat.

The second boat is also a Bolger design, called Reuben`s Nymph, I redesigned the interior for a parapalegic friend of mine, who had to get back on the water. This boat has surpassed any and all expectations, and even
some we hadn`t thought of. I believe it to be the first ever designed and built in the USA, perhaps the world.
It`s called the Freedom 1, if you want to see some inherent stability, I wi;ll gladly send a video showing how
a parapalegic can exit and enter the boat while in the water, without taking on any water.

The next batch of pics. are of another Bolger design, called Diablo, and Cartopper, both excellant boats,
there are other boats which I have built but have misplaced the photos. Hope you like them.

Bow of Cartopper Diablo
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Rubens Nymph - Redisgned Windsprint

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Trinity 65' Steel Hull

And you thought your project was getting out of hand, see the details at Trinity home page

Soon Beng's 8' boat

Doctor in Singapore builds a small boat, more info can be found at: Soon Beng's Home Page

Cosine Wherry

Home boat builder has built a strip canoe and is currently working on a Cosine Wherry, The picture abobe is the building jig for the Cosine Wherry. To see more pictures and the more info see wooden boat building page

Doug Phelps - Restored Canoe

A nicely restored canoe with lanteen sail rig.
e-mail Doug at: DougPhelps@aol.com

John Solenski - A Skiff for all Seasons

e-mail John at: John_J_Solenski_at_usnus04@usnus05.usnus.abb.com
I am interested in communicating with another home builder who may have built the 18 or 20 foot alaskan skiff designed by Renn Tolman, from his book, "A SKIFF FOR ALL SEASONS".
I am currently deciding on building this skiff and would like to discuss its performance in various sea conditions and ease or difficulty of building.
Most recently I have build the "Carolina Dory" by John Gardner and am pleased with its performance, but need a bigger boat to fish offshore in the northeast.

Joe Pierre

e-mail Joe at: Joe@joepierre.com

My 35' Ketch-rigged trimaran, the "Wild Goose," was first. Sailed it with my wife and 5 kids for a couple years off the Pacific coast. I guess 4 pram dinghies, 2 of them cat-rigged sailers, all stitch-and-glue plywood (glass instead of glue, of course.) A 1"-1' model of Sam Rabl's "Picaroon," from the full-sized plans, plank by plank, just like the original, round bilge version, and then glassed her. The model currently is in my living room. Even cast the keel from wheel weights, in sand.

I got my first pram plans out of Mechanix Illustrated or one of those mags, back in the '60s. I remember it was 11' by about 4', with a cat rig. I used simple boom jaws instead of a gooseneck. Lost it overboard in a storm at sea, as I had it improperly lashed on deck of the "Wild Goose." I think it carried 60 sq ft, and it had a dagger board and the dagger board trunk was supported athwartship by a midship thwart.

The sail was a sock-type attachment to the mast, and we reduced sail by raising the boom with a topping lift, which was then wrapped around the (now vertical) boom, mast and sail.

My other sailing dinghy was of my own design.. My wife made the sail. That pram was less than 8' (out of standard plywood 4X8s) and, I think, carried less than 40 sq ft. It was otherwise basically the same as the first one.

The other two were simply rowing prams, and less fun, but sturdy. All were in the neighborhood of 4' beam. I think I designed all of them but the first. I currently have plans for another, which I may build. It is Sabotina. I got the plans from Ken Hankinson Associates, PO Box 2551, La Habra, CA 90631. Phone 213-947-1241. The address and phone numbers may not be any good, since I've had the plans for a number of years. They look good, and follow the stitch and tape construction method, which I'm sold on.

I"ve always used light plywood: 1/8" for sides, 1/4" for bottom, and at least 1/2" for the transoms. A stern thwart is good for a rowing pram, but for a sailing pram it gets in the way of the tillerman, who must sit low. I always use rope travelers, and a foredeck, reinforced in the way of the mast, with a heavy plywood or solid block mastcup glassed to the bottom for the base of the mast. No rigging wires are necessary. You just drop the pre-rigged mast in through the reinforced hole in the foredeck, into its cup, lower the boom with sail in place, run your mainsheet through the traveller block and shove off. A relatively strong man can pick the pram up with little effort and car-top it, or carry it from car to beach. And they handle surf well, coming in to the beach from your yacht.

See Joe's Shop Tip on protoyping boat designs in scale using cardboard from cereal boxes.

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