Building a boat is a challenging, rewarding and just plain fun hobby. It’s not just another project, it’s a lifetime of memories the whole family will enjoy. Many who build our boats have fond memories of helping their father build one when they were kids and all the fun they had as a family using […]
Each year at the Gathering, Lauren and Bill Edmundson put together an “Awards” ceremony. Now, before visions of Academy Awards and red carpets start filling your mind, let me ‘splain. These are totally fun awards that cannot be sought after or earned by any measure. They are completely at the whim of Lauren and Bill. […]
A Cabin Skiff Builder Shares His Story… 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. Stitch […]
We frequently get questions about opening up the cockpit of a runabout design, such as the Zip, to make it one large open cockpit. This is also referred to as a “utility cockpit”. In most cases, this alteration is feasible and simple to do. Plans for runabouts may have a mid-deck with beams that extend completely […]




