Author: Ed Neal

2021 MEMBER OF THE YEAR awards go to the team of Tom Baugher, Lou Brodnik and Al King for their renovation work on SURF, a Blackwatch 30 twin diesel powerboat owned by PHASTAR, a...

A twenty foot boat seems even bigger at turnover time.  Dave Spondike rustled up a crew of CABBS members and some of his ham radio club friends to help get the hull of his...

We’re just starting to get back to normal. Covid stopped our in-person social gatherings,  but we kept up monthly meetings via Zoom.   Many members got projects underway at our workspace or in their...

Brothers Tom and David Wagner launched their 19ft tandem Annapolis Wherry on a sunny October 22nd afternoon and may have set a CABBS speed record for a boatbuilding project. Started in mid-July, they assembled...

As the assembled crew lifted  Jim White’s LAURENTIA cutter hull off the strongback and carefully turned it over, the sun came out and dramatized the glow of the interior.   The early August event got...

It’s over.  At least the construction phase is over.  Each team finished their Six-Hour Canoe on time and decided who should get the boat.  The new owners  will now take over.  They’ll have to...

The 2020 BOATBUILDING BASICS WORKSHOP started February 8th and will run for five Saturdays.    Twelve participants working in teams of four are learning by doing as each team builds a Six-Hour canoe.  The...

It might be the most fun and satisfying thing you’ll ever build.  It’s called a Six-Hour Canoe, a lightweight 15ft. boat paddled like a kayak.  Learn to build it – hands-on – at the...

  Mike and Noah Madar, our November Meeting guest speakers, levitated us into totally new territory.   A little over a year ago, Mike Madar’s wife said he needed a father-son project for their son,...

The last day of the Boatbuilding Basics Workshop has a bittersweet feeling.  As keels and decks are screwed and glued in place,  the building process ends and the team disbands.   The workspace is...