Monthly Archives: August, 2018
IGFA receives all my Skiff designs
Yesterday I had the honor and privilege of donating all my original skiff design drawings to the IGFAs library. Here they will be persevered and kept for posterity for all to see. You have to make an appointment to get in thereto see their collection. They do this to make sure everything is handled properly. …
New CONCHFISH 16 Design wet tested
Yesterday I got to go along with the builders of the first wood composite CONCHFISH being built. It’s being built by a bunch of friends that will share the costs and use of the kid when done. They are mostly first time builders o have tended to overbuild thinking that my scantlings are a bit …
CONCHFISH 16 wood composite build
Last evening I was invited to have a few beers and some great food with some of the guys that have been building a cedar strip CONCHFISH hull and using core for the rest of the build. I am presently in Ft. Lauderdale for a few days helping my daughter finish off her new old …
PIRANHA BOATWORKS NEW MARGO R180 Skiff launched.
Just got these 2 photos of my last years design for this company. She is now in production and is Available for test rides. Shown here she is fully loaded with all gear floating in 7″ of water. Full draft is 9″ with 3 big people aboard. Read about this design here and on my …
New CAPTIVE SKIFF 14 design'”
Jon Selman commissioned me to design up his vision for the ultimate small technical flats skiff. What I like to get from clients is as detailed a wish list as they can come up with. From this I start up my thinking process and I draw up my first vision to go along with theirs. …
Life in Panama so far
Just a few pictures of Hogfish Maximus and us the past few months.
New 13’ JET STIK SKIFF designs
This past year I was commissioned to design this skiff to replace the STIK Skiff company’s past jet driven Skiff. What they were looking for was a seaworthy Skiff that you could pole, paddle and fish standing up in. They wanted interior storage like a real flats skiff, a self bailing cockpit, lots of deck …
A 2 part nesting dinghy
Here’s some pictures I took a few days ago when anchored in the San Blas Islands in Panama. My old friends Tim and Gayle Evans on their sailboat Wild Bird were getting ready to sail onto Columbia so we’re about to stow this dinghy. I had designed and built this dinghy 25 years ago for …
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