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• - Repair of a Bolger BobCat wood/epoxy catboat. Photos and construction diary.
  
• - Offers details and photos of Ron Galli's Trinity, a home-built steel 61' sail boat. Includes a list of home boat builders and photos of their boats, building tips, and message board.
  
• - Step by step building of a 26 foot aluminum racing sailboat, a DIDI 26.
  
• - The odyssey of constructing an 12M oceangoing catamaran on top of a cliff in Kentucky. Arched poly boat shed, links to books and suppliers.
  
• - One builder's projects and musings, focusing on Bolger's plywood designs.
  
• - Building an Ian Farrier F-39 trimaran using epoxy composite construction, with vacuum bagging and infusion technique. photos and description of this ongoing project.
  
• - Construction details and photos. Hull and deck were professionally built; owner is doing the interior woodworking, electrical, and plumbing.
  
• - One builder's experience building a Brewer and Betts plywood outboard design.
  
• - Construction and sailing of a modified Stevenson Projects 19' plywood "Weekender". Includes progress journal, photos, and expense log.
  
• - Building the Vagabond Plus 20 foot plywood trailerable sailboat.
  
• - Alan "Maddog!" MacBride's comprehensive, often humorous, documentation of the construction of his 26' Junk rig, Albatross. Also includes detours to Puffin, Twig and other side "procrastination" projects.
  
• - Details the construction and, eventually, the sailing of the Wing Dinghy, a 12' sailing dinghy designed to be built from scratch using plans by Stevenson Projects.
  
• - A Stevenson 12' plywood MiniCup, a Herb McLeod One Sheet Skiff, and a modified bateau.com inspired pirogue. Detailed descriptions, photos, and costs.
  
• - Free exchange of building and design information for self/home-built multihulls.
  
• - Description of the project, and plywood - epoxy construction. Index of boat building techniques and information.
  
• - The ongoing saga of building a 45' composite sheathed cedar strip sailboat in the back yard and the quest to make it sail fast, save money and not look home made.
  
• - William Atkins designed INGRID 38 sail boat - an adaptation of the Colin Archer "Redningskoite" boats. Completed from a bare hull. Photos, descriptions, information on available hulls.
  
• - Of, by and for amateur builders of Joel White's Haven 12 1/2 sailboat. Descriptions of multiple projects, construction details, contact information
  
• - Plywood/epoxy construction of this Paul Fisher design.
  
• - Building 'Hope', a John Hesp designed 27 foot Bermudan cutter in wood and epoxy.
  
• - Building Double Eagle, a Bolger designed 40' x 20' plywood catamaran, with a Chinese gaff rig.
  
• - Advertisement for a CD, which provides detailed information on this backyard project.
  
• - Directory and links to boat building and restoration projects, mostly in wood.