After twenty-plus years of preaching to my wife that we should just buy a boat and sail away she called me on my bluff and we purchased a 1995 HR39. Which came with a hideous inflatable.
We are ditching the inflatable dinghy and oversized outboard and building J. Welsford’s Tender Behind so that we can explore our anchorages by sail and oar with an occasional bump from an electric outboard.
I have several of John’s plans on my desk and great respect for his pragmatic designs and am very excited to begin making sawdust and turning out my fourth and smallest build. We will call her Quitsa!
No photos, but have two projects going at once (yeah, I know) a) prototype stretched Boardyak by Dave Gentry, and b) self designed folding coracle that takes inspiration from both Christopher Cunningham's folding coracle Faerie, and WoodenWidget's FLiptail 6 dinghy. And I'm supposed to go rescue a Bolger Micro that is without a home.
As an on again and off again project, I am slowly closing in on the launching of my Chesapeake Light Craft Expedition Wherry. Over the course of the 6 years I have been working on it, I have rebuilt a (now) 60 year old Series 1 GP 14, rebuilt a Chesapeake 17 Kayak, built a CLC take apart Eastport pram, built a Duck punt, and am refitting a Montgomery 17 that should hopefully see the water again next spring.
It's not that the Expedition Wherry is a hard build, it's that it is my first build. This means I have changed a few things (it now comes apart into three parts for storage) and have had to go back and fix a few things I did wrong. I have also let it sit aside while I work on other projects.
I have to get it done though, I have both an Arctic Skua Sailing canoe and a Terrapin 21 sharpie to build. I can only push my luck (and love) so far!
Not building from scratch but resurrecting a Welsford Tread Lightly which had languished under tarps out in the open for two years before I aquired it and had developed quite a bit of rot. The builder greatly modified the original design and I’ve modified some of the modifications to allow the boat to perform as I’d prefer. I’m not sure John would recognise his design at first glance.
After twenty-plus years of preaching to my wife that we should just buy a boat and sail away she called me on my bluff and we purchased a 1995 HR39. Which came with a hideous inflatable.
We are ditching the inflatable dinghy and oversized outboard and building J. Welsford’s Tender Behind so that we can explore our anchorages by sail and oar with an occasional bump from an electric outboard.
I have several of John’s plans on my desk and great respect for his pragmatic designs and am very excited to begin making sawdust and turning out my fourth and smallest build. We will call her Quitsa!
Nothing being built yet. Hoping to start a Michalak Jon boat next month as my first boat
No photos, but have two projects going at once (yeah, I know) a) prototype stretched Boardyak by Dave Gentry, and b) self designed folding coracle that takes inspiration from both Christopher Cunningham's folding coracle Faerie, and WoodenWidget's FLiptail 6 dinghy. And I'm supposed to go rescue a Bolger Micro that is without a home.
As an on again and off again project, I am slowly closing in on the launching of my Chesapeake Light Craft Expedition Wherry. Over the course of the 6 years I have been working on it, I have rebuilt a (now) 60 year old Series 1 GP 14, rebuilt a Chesapeake 17 Kayak, built a CLC take apart Eastport pram, built a Duck punt, and am refitting a Montgomery 17 that should hopefully see the water again next spring.
It's not that the Expedition Wherry is a hard build, it's that it is my first build. This means I have changed a few things (it now comes apart into three parts for storage) and have had to go back and fix a few things I did wrong. I have also let it sit aside while I work on other projects.
I have to get it done though, I have both an Arctic Skua Sailing canoe and a Terrapin 21 sharpie to build. I can only push my luck (and love) so far!
Not building from scratch but resurrecting a Welsford Tread Lightly which had languished under tarps out in the open for two years before I aquired it and had developed quite a bit of rot. The builder greatly modified the original design and I’ve modified some of the modifications to allow the boat to perform as I’d prefer. I’m not sure John would recognise his design at first glance.
Just last month I received plans for a Wharram Tiki 26. Currently in 'planning mode'. Lovin' it!