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Sailboat Box. Brazilian Cherry with maple splines; sailboat has maple sails, walnut hull and mast. The sides have a convex curve and the top is hinged with hidden pins. Approx. 5.5×8 inches. Poly finish. (Made this one especially for the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN)

Aug 2, 2010 Hi All - Wanted to share latest Tyvek Homewrap boat with you. STATISTICS: Length = 12 feet Beam = 50 inches Weight of hull empty = approx.100 pounds Mast = 16 feet Time to build = approx. 16 months of spare time I got tired of paddling and decided to make a sailboat. The plans...

Between a new job, various programs we run for and projects we do with disadvantaged kids, building my living roof workshop, and replumbing the house, we ended up pretty burned out come late spring. The county 4H foundation has a big annual fundraiser, we had to go early in the morning to take...

My kids wanted a sand box and I kept putting it off, one day after I bought a storage cabinet my two daughters started playing Dora the Explorer in the box. The cabinet's box was the boat , and they played in that old box everyday till it fell apart. So I thought why not make the sandbox a multi...

I cut this marquetry in classic style from packets of four layers of veneer. The first two now adorn the doors of my desk and were posted over a week ago. These were almost finished then as well but I've spent too much time sailing to get them done until now. This retired life is rough. These...

This is a folding boarding ladder I made to mount on the stern of our 26' sailboat. It has hooks at the top so it can be detached and stowed aboard when the sailboat is on her mooring. The hardware is from a kit I found online. The wood is mahogany with three coats of Helmsman spar urethane...

This is the sailboat I am working on right now. I am Building it in Palm Springs CA (the desert), so I get some funny looks. But that just makes it all that more fun. It is a Glen L design called the tango. the frame members are African Mahogany and the hull will be marine plywood. I am still...

Thought I would give you all an update on my sailboat. Working on the bottom battens now then the bottom planking. Soon it will at least look water tight! In the first picture I have some visitors from couchsurfing.com from NY and France that I am putting to work, slave labor is cheap, but they...

Toys! Toys! The way I see it, as a beginner, toys are really my strong suit right now. As long as the kid is young enough, they'll think it's neat no matter what, and won't even notice any flaws! Ha! Therefore, I decided to make this for my boyfriend's 5 yr old son. I used some white wood scrap...

These are two more old projects I made long before I had a woodshop. I built them in my bedroom as a teenager when I was into model building. The first is a sailboat that I built in similar fashion to how you would build a full-size boat, around a frame. Its mostly made of balsa but the hull is...

Ella is our sailboat, a 12 foot long hard chine skiff from the "Summer Breeze" plans that we built this spring. Ella has a "lug rig" sail, which is a setup that allows sailing fairly close to the wind, requires very little hardware, no complicated boom hinges, a lot of sail area for a fairly...

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...

Seeing Bill Judt's project reminded me of this Headboard I made at our Lake Cabin. The sailboat in the middle is from a pattern in one of his books. The other two carvings are created from newspaper clippings. I started out with a piece of 1" X 12" Pine. I sawed the curve close to the...

This clock's primary wood is Western White Pine, aka Idaho white pine, (it's the Idaho state tree. The clock face is English Walnut and the number pips are maple. It's for my daughter and her husband who live in Idaho and have a sailboat.

The plan set comes from B&B in N.Carolina. This boat was built from the lofting to the final fit out, only buying the sails made elsewhere. This is my 6th boat built from scratch. It took about 2 years, most of the work being 3 months last year. It is a stitch & glue design, using Okume marine...

Back in July I did a blog about my motivation for this project, and finally now four months later I am approaching my (several-times-extended) goal: http://lumberjocks.com/GnarlyErik/blog/64986 This project is the building of a number of small sailboats for kids for Christmas. I first...

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...

Hey guys Last summer while in a patch of rough weather, I accidentally gybe badly. So badly in fact that my mainsheet traveller had it; 32 years of service was enough it seems. While looking for options to replace it, I quickly realize that anything that you can buy stock today needed to be...

Made for a regular client for her souvenir shop. Originaly these were only decorations, but then she suggested we drilled the holes a little deeper to make them usable. which i supposed is a good idea, if something has a purposo besides looking pretty, it will sell faster. they are made out of...

This is a link to the blog I kept of the construction of my sailboat in 2008. http://buildingladybug.wordpress.com Huge learning experience for me as I had virtually zero woodworking experience when I started.