We started work on a Delaware duck hunting boat that was built by the CBMM apprentice program in about 2010. The ducker is a lapstrake build, which is rare for this region.
June 3, 2025 | Delaware ducker: Initial scraping and sanding
Author: Don Barker
June 3, 2025 | Cinnamon Girl: Scraping, sanding, spar work
Willem scraped and sanded Cinnamon Girl then started undercoating. Tom varnished her spars and prepped the center board for (hopefully) epoxy undercoat.
June 3, 2025 | Smith Island power skiff: Removed floor boards
Bob and Jim removed the deck boards. Still have boards after of engine to be done. Waiting for an engine hoist to remove engine before it goes to the porch to continue the conservation work.
May 27, 2025 | Cinnamon Girl: Sand spars & oars, clean & prep plank landings, scrape and sand interior
May 20, 2025 | 1920 skiff: Rubrail paint
Willem put the final coat of paint on the rubrail. This project is now finished.
May 20, 2025 | Pushboat: Finish paint
Jenn and Tom applied finish paint the the deck and interior components of Rosie Parks pushboat.
May 13, 2025 | Cinnamon Girl: Removed interior components
Don removed the risers, thwarts, and sternsheets from Cinnamon Girl to make interior scraping and sanding easier, and for restoration or replacement of these components.
May 13, 2025 | Power skiff: Project startup, documentation
We started work on the powered Smith Island crabbing skiff. Jenn, Jim, and Don removed the trotline roller, gas tank, rudder, and steering assembly, labeling each component. We began removing floor boards to expose the bilge, floor timbers, and bottom planking.
May 6, 2025 | 1920 skiff: Bottom work
Willem, Tom, and Don set the nails used to install new floor frames in the 1920 skiff, then put a final coat of paint on the bottom.
May 6, 2025 | Pushboat: Down in the bilge
Our colleague Jenn D. is one of CBMM’s most dedicated volunteers. Today she dove head first into the task of touching up the bilge paint work that we started last week on Rosie Parks’s pushboat.
