Tag Archives: Boat

First Factory 1-d Launched!


April, 21, 2021, In checking links on updating this site I’ve discovered that The Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory website is down. Just got these images from Victoria Guidi, Program Director at the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory. This one says it all! The Purple Lady – the kids chose the color and the name – sailing inContinueContinue reading “First Factory 1-d Launched!”

Introducing the Factory One Design


The Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory Is now building three Factory One Designs in its evening boatbuilding program in North Philadelphia. This boat was designed specifically for the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory’s boatbuilding program as a boat to be built by their young people during the school year and then sailed in their summer sailing programContinueContinue reading “Introducing the Factory One Design”

Fortuitous Mashup?


One of the things I like best about this concept is that it removes the trappings of an adversarial relationship from between the designer & client. This should, and can be, a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship. It thrives on trust and openness between the parties involved. The crowd-sourcing process “negotiates” the development of that trust and channels our overtures of cooperation into the start of a vital relationship. I’m excited about what this can lead to! I hope you are as well.

Recent project, Re-“forming” the Newport Catboat Falcon


Mark Sutherland approached me this past Spring to see if we could recover the actual form of a Newport catboat with an interesting history. The 25′ Catboat Falcon was lost off Brenton Reef in a summer thunder-squall at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Two lives were lost, an older brother passing the bowsprit toContinueContinue reading “Recent project, Re-“forming” the Newport Catboat Falcon”

Boats I’d Like to Design: Canoe Yawl


Photo of Rozinante Courtesy of Rozinante.org One of the first designs I fell in love with was L. Francis Herresshoff’s Rozinante.There was one being built at the “Boat School” in Lubec in 1973.Reading L. Francis’ Compleat Cruiser fleshed out the story behind this wonderful craft.It’s fitting that coming to writing about designs I return toContinueContinue reading “Boats I’d Like to Design: Canoe Yawl”

Boats I’d like to design


This was the title to a post on my home site. It evolved into Boats for Difficult Times. Its original impulse deserves an airing. A designer usually compiles a list of previous work. Then looks for potential clients to approach them, looking for boats they’d like to have. Sometimes, and I’ve done this quite aContinueContinue reading “Boats I’d like to design”