Welcome to My Models Page!

This is where this whole Boat building thing got started, Aside  Loving Boats my whole life from growing up on the Saugus River, just North of Boston Harbor, to Saiing my own small Sailboat in the Gulf of Mexico.  But as to Building  My own Sailboat it began here, on the models page.What to say,Well one day a few years back, I was out in the country with nothing to do, so I pulled out my pocket knife and whittled me a Boat out of a stick...

 My wife Thought it looked pretty good so she bought me a Double plank on frame  wooden boat model  Kit of the Spanish gallion, The Sanfrancisco and Never have trying anything like this before, it took me about a Year and a half to  Learn, Build and complete...                          

When I completed the model, I had caught the building bug bad and continued on. My Friend Mike Duffy gave me another Wooden Boat kit of a Lobster Boat of old called a Muskongus Bay Lobster Smack, which were used up in Maine waters. I really like the lines of this Boat it has the lines of a Friendship Sloop...

           

Friendship sloop Lady-G

After the death of my Father, I found that  I had decended from A Bloodline filled with Boat builders and Captains and such (Which explains alot). and found that I was a relative of the late Cpt. Angus Walters of the Fishing Schooner Bluenose, from Nova Scotia. So I decided  to build a double Plank on hull  Model of the Bluenose Which also took about a Year and a half to build as well.

As I was building The Model of the Bluenose, I found I had a Canadian dime (which the bluenose is on) that had been My Fathers, So I decided to do somthing with it.  I soaked wallnut and Basswood strips for a while and when they became plyable, I wrapped them around the Dime in a dark light and dark Pattern, I then made the handles out of some dowells and a carving knife, and came out with a pretty nice little Ships Wheel.

Around this time, I began looking for pictures of boats to use as a base for some scratch built models. Then I stumbled upon the Stevensons Website as they had some photos of Sail boats, and one that even looked like the lobsterboat I had Built. But wait this was a site that had plans to build these Boats (that looked like the  Model that I built) and were saying that it could be built in One to Two Years. So I figured it took like Three and a half years to buid these Models that I have, and love to look at. So  if this information were true then in the same time it took for these keepsakes to be built, so could a living breathing Sailboat that I could Embark on my own adventures upon. My wife got the plans for my Vacationer for me for Christmas  that Year, and I built a fitting wooden box for them to be stored. My wife Patricia is a fantastic artist as well as crafts person, so I  had her draw the Vacationer on the lid, and I burned it in with a wood burner...

And even Named this unbuilt Boat. the Name just came to me immedeatly, and nothing else sounds right, I chose, Therapy to be her name.

I then began experimenting with trying my hand at scratch  built Ships in Bottles. I had gone to the Tall Ships festival and had a photo of the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle that I had the good fortune to be able to Tour, Hanging on My Shop Wall. So I researched it a bit and and carved the hull from some oak with My Dremel  of the photo. and proceeded to perform the magic of building a Ship in a Bottle...

The U.S. Coast Guard Eagle

 I then built the Bluenose in a bottle for My Mother

          Bluenose in Bottle

And decided to try to Build a land Ship in a bottle...

Waggon in a gallon jug.

Thats it fer now.                       

 

       

Heres a pretty good video of the Coast Guard Eagle