After seeing this picture in the Wooden Boat Magazine and the article that followed, I decided I would like to build one of these boats. Come to find out a friend of mine, Glen, owns one of these boats and raves about it. The die was cast.

Lori and I drove from Upstate New York to Mystic CT for the Wooden Boat Show and spoke to the designer in person and saw several examples of other people's builds using his Caledonia design.

What started out as a gee - I'd like one of those, has turned into a labor of love, a couple of new power tools and buckets of wood shavings. The pictures on the blog at this time show various stages from scratch to completed building form, installation of fore and aft aprons (stems) and the hog (keelson). The first two planks are soon to be attached to the building frame. More to follow... Thanks for your interest

The building form needed to be true fore and aft and side to side




the bending jib for the laminated apron and stem

the gluing process is always a bit messy


A boat builder cannot own, beg or borrow too many clamps

All these lines have a direct bearing on the final outcome - I wonder what they mean?

Please note writing on my shirt, plug for Florida Gulfcoast Small Craft Association - and Roger moved to Buffalo??




The little stick in the left hand picture has a lot to say, true or not. Looking aft, all molds in a row

All edges of the molds have been covered with packing tape to prevent sticking to the planking.