Your Boat Builds and Other Projects Pt 3
Designer Roy Schreyer writes:
I thought this might be a good time for a MiniD update. Homemade opening windows are in and functioning. Upholstery is looking good, made from bed spreads! Hardware is mostly set up and running, anchor and interior lighting is wired up. We have our tenth annual Bark Lake trip coming up in two weeks with the Can Am Dinghy Cruising Association. I've offered my buddy and his boy use of MiniD so we can still take DIANNE'S ROSE and take pictures of MiniD from afar. He's excited to be able to take her as he is short of a boat this season but is a regular on this trip. I appreciate him towing her there as it is about a four hour drive. Too far to go back and fetch her myself. Better pics will come when she gets out of the shed, better still when I know she floats!
Reader Eric Bridgford sent this note:
We are building this Francois Vivier Kernic for a local middle school here in Santa Barbara, CA.
The Santa Barbara Middle School is an experiential ed middle school that wants to use this boat in their electives and possibly on some of their expeditions. We are close to completion and will have it on the water in the next few weeks.
Reader Jarrod Dahl just lauched this jewel. He writes:
Love reading your publication. I recently built and launched a Pete Culler designed 18’ Swampscott Dory. White pine on oak. Ketch sprit-rigged.
I sail The Pearl around Chequamegon bay, Lake Superior, Wisconsin
Eric Hedl is making fast work of his SCAMP kit. He writes:
I'm building a SCAMP! I started hull 692 in July at the 2024 SCAMP Camp in Michigan. We made lots of progress thanks to both Howard Rice and John Welsford! I hope to complete her over the winter and start the fun next spring.
More your projects coming shortly…—Eds •SCA•
I hope more people will share their builds - it's so exciting to see how each person innovates and builds. I love seeing it! That boat for the school is such a dreamy, pretty thing! And I love seeing how good the carpentry of most of these builds is - if it was me, the woodwork would be funkadelic at best, and the boat would sink!
The effort required to build, even a small, open boat can easily be underestimated. It's always great to see folks at it. They make life just a bit more interesting!