From the category archives:
I’ve always thought the Bo-Jest was such a neat looking boat. This is truly the type of boat you don’t see everywhere and can rightly be called a “Character boat”. It’s certainly not something you can just buy at a local boat shop! Today’s video is of Tom Smitherman’s boat taken at last years [...]
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The Zip 14′ Runabout is one of our most popular designs. Chris Atwood, aka vupilot on the Boatbuilder Forum, did a beautiful job on his “First Born”.
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The True Grit is the second Glen-L boat that Ray Macke has built and wow–what a beautiful job he did on this one too! If you’ll remember from our previous interview, Ray built the Cabin Skiff which he aptly named “Therapy” and travelled over 27,000 miles of inter-coastal waterways with her. The True-Grit is [...]
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Yes, I said FUNabout, not RUNabout, although this little boat is both! The Squirt is a 10′ runabout designed for plywood construction. This little runabout is the most popular
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This interview was taken at the 2010 Gathering of Boatbuilders in Tennessee. Dave Lott built a beautiful version of our Riviera design.
Dave is a very active member of the Glen-L Forum so many of us feel like we were practically there during the building of his Riviera. Like many other Forum members, he shared his experiences along the way and talked through
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Continuing the boat building dream #27…
Today’s interview is only one minute long and this craftsman is truly living his dream in the boat he built himself…
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Ken Schott first launched his almost completed Double Eagle a 25 foot wooden fishing boat at the very first Gathering of Boatbuilders at Lake Guntersville in Alabama. What an exciting event that was! Ken beamed from ear to ear with pride in the boat he built himself. What an awesome accomplishment and how great to launch [...]
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This interview is of boatbuilder Dwain Colton who built the Ski King 15′ classic wood inboard ski boat. Listen in as he discusses using Glen-L boat plans to build this beautiful boat and see his work in action on the water…
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Building a boat is definitely an addiction and boat builder Kevin Brown has coined that phrase for himself.
The Squirt is the second Glen-L boat that Kevin has built and is not the last. The first was our Tubby Tug design that is a little 9′ tug he built for his daughter.
The Squirt is by far the most popular design we have
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Stitch and glue boat building is touted by many as the preferred method of building for the first timer. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, this type of boat building is done by forming plywood panels around forms and then stitching them together.
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