A roundsided Swampscott dory I ended up building. What I intended to
build was a Canadian canoe. To that end I purchased a long wheel base
Landrover to carry the canoe on top. However, once the makeshift
workshop was built it was decided, that if I was going to do all
that work, I might as well go the whole hog. An Alpha dory would have
been nicer still but the workshop was not long enough.
For a
couple of years I dreamed boats, talked boats, thought boats, read
about boats and occasionally worked on it as well. It was good fun and
I had a lot of guidance from a book written by John Gardner of the
Mystic Seaport Museum in Boston.
Main materials used were New Zealand Kauri, Fijian Kauri marine ply and Kahikatea for the laminated frames.
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