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This is the first one of these that i have tried to make and I am pretty sure this will be this years xmas presents that I send out. This is made from maple that has a little birdseye in it but not much as well as purple heart and some mesquite. The hole is 1 1/2 " wide and the center of the...

This was my first boat restoration. I had helped a friend of mine restore two Thistles and his Jet 14. They are both wonderful boats. The hulls are hot molded plywood which was used during WWII to build some British aircraft. The decks and bulkheads are marine plywood and the internal...

Here is a summer project from two years ago that I never posted. It is a skin on frame outrigger sailing canoe. The frame of the canoe is made with white oak ribs and larch for the gunwales, keelson, and chines. The seating platform and outriggers are douglas fir. The skin is nylon with varnish...

My old sailboat needed new cabin-top handrails so I made these last winter. I wanted handrails beefy enough that they would hold under the weight of an adult man hanging from them in storm conditions. That meant both that the wood needed to be thick enough to withstand the strain and also that...

These are two little cats that I built in the early 80's. Catspaw was my own boat for several years and Sylvester was built for a client. Her second owner was Will Millar, lead singer of the Irish Rovers, who wrote about her in his book "Messing About in Boats" and which I last saw at the...

These are 3 boats (2 kayaks and a sailboat) that I built as my first projects made about 18 years ago before I really got into woodworking. The plans came from Woodenboat magazine, at the time I lived in Gmunden austria on a lake and a farmer had given me space to work. What fun to build, boat...