All Boats - Fretwater Boatworks

Lara Gomora2020-10-13T20:27:39+00:00

Ashley & Made in the Shade

Ashley & Made in the Shade In my first boatbuilding course at Woodenboat School in 2016 we built two McKenzies in a week. [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-08T23:35:58+00:00

Bears Ears

Dories | Oversize

Bears Ears We designed this boat to be the ideal modern size—somewhere between Bob and a Briggs. It has 25% more volume than [...]

Lara Gomora2020-11-30T20:32:11+00:00

Bernie

Atlantic Lapstrake

Bernie We built Bernie in 2016 in a five-day Fretwater Boat School class. She’s a Chaisson Swampscott dory tender, built from lines by [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-09T22:50:41+00:00

Betty Boop

Restorations

Betty Boop Betty Boop was built by Keith Steele in 1967 for television star Ron Hayes. Hayes wrecked her on a gas station [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-09T22:20:39+00:00

Bird Baths

Miniatures

Bird Baths Covid 2020 led Dawn Kish and I to come up with a dory bird bath and garden to spice up the [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-09T22:36:36+00:00

Blacktail

Dories | McKenzies

Blacktail I helped Roy and Amy Lippman build this McKenzie in my shop in 2012: Blacktail. She doubles as Amy’s studio bed when [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-08T23:36:05+00:00

Bob

Dories | Oversize

Bob My friend of Very Large Stature asked me to design a much larger Briggs boat to fit his anatomy in 2015. Bob [...]

Lara Gomora2020-11-30T20:33:25+00:00

Bookshelves

Miniatures

Bookshelves In 2018 I built a detailed 1/3 scale replica of a Briggs dory as a bookshelf for a fundraiser. She brought more [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-08T21:33:00+00:00

Boxcar

Historic Replicas

Boxcar Norm Nevills’s 1930’s San Juan punt A replica of Norman Nevills’s San Juan punt Redbud—one of the original fleet of San Juan [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-13T20:30:37+00:00

Brothers Keeper

Dories | McKenzies

Brothers Keeper Our 2017 WoodenBoat School class built Brothers Keeper. She went home with brothers Glen and Dean, hence the name. Back to [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-12T22:01:24+00:00

Brown Betty

Dories | McKenzies

Brown Betty Roy Lippman built the second clone of the Betty Boop in my shop in 2015. He had some guidance from me—but [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-09T22:55:09+00:00

Cataract

Restorations

Cataract Cataract was one of the first full batch of dories built for Martin Litton by Jerry Briggs in 1972. Originally called Chattahoochee, [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-12T19:12:22+00:00

Columbine Falls

Repairs

Columbine Falls Tim Cooper built Columbine back around 1985 for our mutual friend Larry. Larry later sold it to my then wife Jeri, [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-08T23:31:23+00:00

D1-D5

Dories | Oversize

D1-D5 In 2012 Arizona Raft Adventures (AzRA) bought two aluminum hulls. We helped design the interior and later added wooden gunwales and brightwork. [...]

Lara Gomora2020-11-30T20:27:28+00:00

Dzil Joo’Ba’ii

Dories | Briggs

Dzil Joo’Ba’ii In 2020 we built a custom Briggs with the help of its new owners, Chet and Kat. It’s named in Navajo: [...]

Lara Gomora2020-11-30T20:31:17+00:00

Edith

Historic Replicas

Edith Emery Kolb’s 1911 Edith In 2011 Dan Dierker and I built this replica of the original Edith, which Kolb rowed down the [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-12T19:01:34+00:00

Eilean

Repairs

Eilean Tim was a regular in my boat school, taking oarmaking, bronzecasting, and Briggs boat building. He went home and slowly put together [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-08T22:17:54+00:00

Grand Canyon

Historic Replicas

Grand Canyon Bert Loper’s 1949 Grand Canyon For Bert Loper’s 150th birthday in 2019 we recreated his ultimate boat, the Grand Canyon. We [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-12T19:14:32+00:00

Hetch Hetchy

Restorations

Hetch Hetchy Hetch Hetchy is one of the final three dories built by Keith Steele for Martin Litton before the two parted ways. [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-08T21:20:42+00:00

Irenabyss

Dories | Briggs

Irenabyss The 2018 Fretwater Boat School class produced one Briggs boat. Life got in the way of a quick completion after class, but [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-12T18:21:33+00:00

Josie

Repairs

Josie My old college buddy Larry has an old Tatman drift boat that needed some work. Her name is Josie. I spent way [...]

Lara Gomora2020-11-30T20:29:59+00:00

Juan and Dui

Dories | McKenzies

Juan and Dui In 2007 Dan Dierker and I, after years of messing around with wood boats, decided to build one with Roger [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-08T23:03:24+00:00

Julius

Historic Replicas

Julius Buzz Holmstrom’s 1937 Julius F Working with Roger Fletcher and a host of friends in Oregon in 2001, we recreated Holmstrom’s amazing [...]

Lara Gomora2020-10-13T20:35:22+00:00

Katie Lee

Dories | McKenzies

Katie Lee Kate Aitchison spent two months in 2017 transforming the two side-panels of this boat into 60+ square feet of woodcut—a panorama [...]