The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Yes Devlin designs. I had built the Cackler once but wanted to build one in strip.

I made a Freedom 17 in two pieces because my wife refused to let me make a canoe in the living room. It tutned our alright with the bulkhead as I guess you'd call it forming a kind of back rest which I use double paddeling it.

I think yours is really more of a punt with a flat bottom. The original sneak boxes were carvel planked and all curves. The Glen L is a V. I guess I could just try building a model with the aproximent dimentions and then take the station molds with a piece of lead and then blow them up. That might b...

Ya that's very much what I am talking about. Here's the Glen L version. the photo shows over powering it from what the plans call for. I too did this with a eight horse power but had quirte a lot of fun with a 2 horse power and rowing it. It really rowed nicly. I now mostly want to use a electric mo...

I contacted Mac McCarty now in a home and keeping sane making models but he says he has no suggestions other then the smithsoanian.

I guess I might just try and modify the Glen L plans.

I hope to build a small versitile and seaworthy little boat

I had built two out of 1/4 plywood. The Glen L design( about 12-13 feet was really greal. You could row motor it (2-8 hp) and probally sail it well. It was low to the water and wasn't blown around like even a canoe. I've had it way out in rough water and it went through like a duck. The Glen L desig...