wooden boat

[injun joe]

After posting some bream pictures last week, some people wanted to see my wooden boat. It is a cypress skiff made by an extremely nice fella from Albany named John Green. He was a pathologist retired from the Navy. His father was a boat builder by trade on Chesapeake Bay.
John built this boat in 1994 and died a couple of years later. He was a fine man. It's 14' long and 48" wide in the bottom and fishes like a dream. I have a 15 horse Honda that I run on the river and larger lakes.


(The bass was not taken on a fly.)

 

[trad bow]

Nice boat. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[SheldonMOAC]

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Nice looking back seat in that boat.

 

[Woody's Janitor]

Sweeeet! Yhanks for the pics!

 

[Nicodemus]

Remarkable piece of craftsmanship! Not many folks still around that can make a boat like that anymore.

 

[milltown]

Thats a good looking boat!

 

[injun joe]

Nice looking back seat in that boat.

Yeah,
I fixed it so a buddy of mine would be more comfortable.

 

[slightly grayling]

My father has one that could pass as it's older twin. Back in the 1950's he was a school teacher in Folkston, GA on the eastern side of the Okefenokee. At the time there was a nearby boat builder who made them for the Fish & Game dept or whatever they called it then......They would not sell him one painted as he finished them under contract, so my father bought one unfinished and completed it with Spar Varnish....I even have the 7.5 HP fleetwin evenrude that he bought for it. After over 50 years it is is sound as when he bough it...you and your kids will enjoy that for a very long time.
-SG

 

[Twenty five ought six]

Remarkable piece of craftsmanship! Not many folks still around that can make a boat like that anymore.

Not many folks can get cypress boards like that anymore.

Very nice boat.

 

[Bitteroot]

very nice!

 

[Toxic]

Real nice to see one like that, breaks away from all the fiberglass and aluminum....