Radcliffe Creek School Seadogs

babygirl.jpg

draketailpic.jpg

boats003.jpg

We build boats.

boats022.jpg

boats001.jpg

Click here to Contact The Boatbuilders!

Click Here For The Radcliffe Creek School Website

Click here for our Hooper Island Draketail rebuild!

mk3.jpg

Burning and scraping out a tulip poplar log with oyster shells....

26.jpg

2007 - 2008 / Operation Babygirl / 24' Draketail Sharpie

Babygirl Vital Statistics:
Hooper Island Draketail / Chesapeake Sharpie Mix (a mutt)
LOA: 23' 10"
Beam 51"
Weight 700# (?)
Hull: Signal Board on a Salt Treated Frame
Why? Because it needed to be done.


2 October 2007 0800 hrs : Operation Babygirl Gets Underway

The initial team is a crack unit of 2nd,3rd, 4th and 5th graders. The stern framing is based on the Mary E. - a 45' draketail built in 1933.

schoolboatsfeb.jpg

Followed by a first grade commando team, note the taped together yardsticks we used as our batten. This serious lofting gentlemen.

deadriselayout013.jpg

This kid grasps the concept of an 8ths Table!

deadrise layout 011.jpg

November

Laying out the bateaux on a cold and rainy November day...........

deadrise layout 006.jpg

January: yeah yeah it's a mess, just have patience. The crew is made up of 6 year olds.

babygirl005.jpg

13 May 2008

portquarter.jpg

The draketail takes shape.

sternboyz.jpg

Pointy, ain't she?

starboardbow.jpg

Now on to the decking, cuddy and coaming

stern.jpg

portmid.jpg

girlsboat003.jpg

Eastern Shore Girls can build boats too!........this is the 7th and 8th grade team.

Home | The boats

Mary E.
our 1933
"Dukey Marshall" 
Hooper IslandDraketail
  rebuild

13.jpg

boat10.jpg

boat11.jpg

35.jpg

boat17.jpg

022.jpg

"Haydon Elizabeth"
a pretty 16' rack-of-eye-built
Smith Island Crab Scrape
under construction

2crabscrape1.jpg

cs.jpg

Miss Catherine
our 21' Poquoson Log Canoe
built from scrap wood

2logcanoe.jpg

The RCS Seadog 
boys and girls hanging on
 Mary E.

marye.jpg

The first boat- a Bevin's Skiff. We highly recommend this little kit boat!

bs.jpg

This "Peace Canoe" kit boat required extensive structural retrofitting.........

boat4show2.jpg

yrkbook97014.jpg

Bertha was a shambles - she is a pretty girl now.....

46.jpg

bertha001.jpg

boat001.jpg

boat009.jpg

The Morgnec Kayak - the smaller boat for the larger man. This is definitely not a dainty lil' kit boat..........she has a pretty little draketail stern. She is a 1/3 - sized version of the Mary E. with a little bit of a railbird skiff flavor thrown in for the heck of it.

railskiff.jpg

I am thinking Higgins boat next.............anybody the got plans?