downeast skiff plans
Not "downeast" i know but there are plenty of ply wood boats floating around our waters, alot used in the commercial fisheries. a little introduction about my self. some of you know that i am a high school shop teacher, started a boat building class 15 years ago and it has morphed into some interesting projects. Mount desert island, maine, lies downeast—about 100 miles northeast of portland as the seagull flies. a century ago, most islanders made their living from the sea: fishing, lobstering, skippering yachts for "rusticators" (summer visitors), maybe a little bit of all three. in the winter the watermen built boats to use themselves or to sell. today the descendants of those rugged old-timers. The downeast hull, even in nasty chop and heavy swell conditions, can cruise comfortable all day long at 12 to 20 knots. today’s true downeast hulls use horsepower to get them up beyond displacement speeds, and yet these boats are still true to the central issue of providing predictable stability. 
downeast skiff plans
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