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Boat Building at Salisbury School

Salisbury, Connecticut

This is a record of boat building at Salisbury School, a boys' prep school in northwest Connecticut. In 2002, Eliot Hovey finished his Annapolis Wherry, from a Chesapeake Light Craft, stitch-and-glue kit. He rowed it to a very respectable fourth-place finish in the Blackburn Challenge.

Since then, students /faculty have built sea kayaks; lake kayaks; a couple of prams; Oxford rowing shells; one canoe; a Chester Yawl, a skiff and two surfboards from kits.

Along the way, I learned how to build low-seat, skin-on-frame, solo canoes. After a few of those, I built a ‘recovery’ kayak and a plywood coracle. As of spring of ’11, we were up to fifty-two boats (I’m not counting the surfboards as boats).

I've also built four coracles; for the blog of this, go to www.steelcoracle.wordpress.com. This winter I'm trying to know out a West-Greenland style kayak. My next long-term goal is a skin-on-frame Adirondack guide boat.

Information for Salisbury Builders/Alumni

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► 2012 (3)
- ► February (1)
  - Latest Pictures
- ► January (2)
  - Stringers are on the Forms
  - Stringers soaking.Two of five low-seat canoes in p...

► 2011 (19)
- ► November (1)
  - The new season is almost here.....
- ► September (1)
  - Coracle Project Almost Over.
- ► August (4)
- ► July (2)
  - Visit to Manzanita, Oregon
  - Summer paddle
- ► June (1)
  - FIRE-POND LAUNCHING
- ► May (4)
- ► April (2)
  - This weekend, I am heading to the Yestermor...
  - Mid-April
- ► March (1)
  - March Break
- ► February (1)
  - Jesse Langer's 'Jimmy Skiff' Spencer Karl's skin-...
- ► January (2)
  - Makin' Progress
  - Progress update

▼ 2010 (29)
- ► December (1)
  - The New Season Begins
- ► October (2)
  - Late October Paddle
  - Early evening paddle on fast moving flood waters
- ▼ September (2)
  - Ironbridge Coracle Launch
  - Close to home...
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  - How I spent my summer vacation...
  - The nest is empty.....
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  - Picture update
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  - Skin Boats off the forms this morning
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  - Milestone

► 2009 (25)
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► 2008 (27)
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