Sarum Boats: March 2015

3/21/15

Alumni Water-craft Update

I got an email today, from former Salisbury student, Robert Feeney, with a link to this video of fishing off the California coast. Rob was class of 2012. Coincidentally, I recently heard from Rob's classmate, Cameron Fitch, who build a Chester Yawl. I'm hoping he will send me some pictures of his boat, as well.

La Jolla SUP yellowtail from Robert Feeney on Vimeo.

3/8/15

Boat Building at Salisbury School

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, which have become our most popular project. After a few of those, I built a ‘recovery’ kayak and a plywood coracle. As of summer of ’14 we were up to seventy-five boats (I’m not counting the surfboards as boats). My lifetime total is well over a hundred boats.

I've also built three West-Greenland style kayaks and four coracles; for the blog of the latter, go to Steel Coracle.

3/21/15

Alumni Water-craft Update

3/8/15

From WOODEN BOAT on Facebook