Small Craft Photo Blast #2

Jul 01, 2025

Top: Overnight on Roaring Beach, Southern Tasmania…MAY 2025.

Bottom: ’Sea Eagle’ with big moon and Southern Lights at Encampment Cove, Maria Island, Tasmania - JUNE 2025

—Mat & Jo Conboy

Photo from Tim Dubois

MiniD at the beach. —Roy Schreyer

Here's my CY Madtom on Kenai Lake in Alaska, September '23. —Cole Styron

B&B designs, A Core Sound 20 Mk 3 and a Mathew Flinders 246. Both easily trailerable cat ketch designs. —Jay Knight

Photo from Kitrick Nielson

One of my favorite shots of our Welsford Houdini, BELAFONTE. —Eric Devoe

Launched in early summer, 1999. The photo is from August 2006 after she’d had several good seasons of sailing. Remember Dynamite Payson and his passion for Designing boats anyone could build for just a few dollars? Great concept, but the quarter inch exterior plywood from a local lumber yard was having serious delaminating problems by 2021. She had a “viking’s funeral in the fall of that year.

—Jame Budde

Boat lift wheel makes it amphibious. We have a replica of a D-Day landing craft near us .Wood hull, shallow V forward , flat midsection, aft tunnel hull for prop. Originally designed for oil exploration in Gulf of Mexico. Marines insisted on a ramp. Designer Andrew Jackson Higgins. One veteran said if they'd known it was wood , they would never have set foot in it.

—Christer Englund

One of my favorite pics of my boat....a Sovereign 18. —Kevin Dreher

A shout-out for the ubiquitous panga—a small craft work boat. An off-grid lobster camp in the mangroves of Bahia Santa Maria, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

—Joshua Wheeler

Michalak Fat Cat 2 #1 "Kat Boat" nee "Julie L" in Dayton Bay, Flathead Lake, MT

Keep your peak up!

—James D. Maxwell

Just back from an evening row in Salish. I can get out pretty much year round in Pender Harbour BC Canada. Boat is a cedar strip coastal rowboat 18' by 28".

—Richard Crook

David and Goliath. —Ron Badley

Above: Simon's Insta360 X5, (GoPro-like) was on a long wand inches from Karen. The image is plucked from a video. Caption: Clam Girl with Karen & Hugh, Simon Lewandowski

Below photo off Snake Key is mine. From left, Goke Tomlinson with his Bufflehead N8R; Wes White & Felucca; Simon Lewandowski with Goat; Bill Ling & Doreen in Aku.

—Hugh Horton

Norseboat 12.5 in Morro Bay, CA. —Richard Schermerhorn

In honor Rueben Trane’s crossing the bar this year, a photo of his beloved design, the Peep Hen. —Curtis

Escargot canal boat designed by Phil Thiel. Built by Joe Mix. Jackson Lake, Grand Tetons, WY —Joe Mix

Here’s a photo of CarriMal, our Townsend Tern in Vinalhaven, Maine a few years ago.

—Jonathan Lewis.

My ComPac 16, Honu, heading out of the Port of Sidney at sunrise for the epic (for me) 20 mile cruise down the Haro Strait to my slip at the Oak Bay Marina in Victoria. Sails got bent on later…—Ben Bierman

Wooden Boat Festival 2024—Sally Gadow

CABBS Built Boat, Fleet 14 - Blue Hull. —David Weglicki

My Michalak Blobster, Bob, sailing and camping on Lake Macquarie NSW Australia. Bob is now nearly 16 years old and still going strong. I built with marine ply and plenty of epoxy so the boat will still be around in another 15 years time. Blobster is a wonderful design that works really well. Someone once said they did not know why the waters of the world were not packed with Bolger's Micro. I think the same could be said of Blobster.

Cheers. —Miles Bore