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Annapolis Wherry
Adirondack Rowing is proud to be offering custom built wooden boats to the rowing public. After 31 years in business we have expert boat builders that assemble the Annapolis Wherry kit for our customers.
The Annapolis Wherry design is derived from the graceful wooden wherries used as livery boats on the River Thames in the 19th century. Lighter, slimmer, and lower than the originals, the Annapolis Wherry offers truly thoroughbred performance on the water combined with an almost breathtaking grace. Solid stability, excellent tracking, a buoyant bow, and ample flare make the Annapolis Wherry a natural choice for rowing in choppy conditions. The open design allows for plenty of sprawling and a picnic basket when beach cruising.
The Annapolis Wherry has fixed seats for one or two rowers, but it truly excels
with a sliding seat. A sliding seat allows cruising speeds of 5-7 knots. The
interior is laid out from the start to permit easy installation of a
Piantedosi Ro-Wing
without any modification or extra structure. In minutes you can convert to
sliding seat rowing and back to fixed seat rowing. With all these options, the
Wherry may be unsurpassed as a rowing trainer, exercise boat, long-distance
cruiser, or even for open water racing.
Construction is entirely of LapStitch™ 6mm okoume plywood, epoxy encapsulated
and with fiberglass cloth on the bottom panels inside and out to resist beach
abrasion. 9mm okoume frames, thwarts, and flotation tanks ensure stiffness. The
outwales, breasthook, and quarter knees are solid mahogany.
Annapolis Wherry Specifications:
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Length: 17' 9" |
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Beam: 38" |
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Weight: 65 lbs. |
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About LapStitch™ Construction Lapstrake construction is a boatbuilding method that reaches back thousands of years into the dim mists of time. Although lapstrake hull shapes evolved over millennia (many would suggest that the type reached a high water mark with the Viking longboats), the actual building method was little changed right up into the 20th century. Planks were nailed or riveted together, and the technique required prodigious ability on the part of boatbuilders. Over the last 30 years, the advent of modern adhesives and high quality marine plywoods brought about the first major innovation in lapstrake building methods: glued plywood lapstrake hulls. Glued lapstrake planking permits very strong, stiff, and beautiful hulls that never leak. This is progress, but glued lapstrake planking still requires molds and considerable skill in layout and joinery; certainly not ideal for novice builders. Using sophisticated computer design software, we are now able to devise hull shapes that will assume a round-bottomed shape without molds or "torturing" of the wood. A special "rabbet", or groove, is machined into each strake so that the strakes are self-aligning. They are wired together just like a stitch-and-glue kayak. When the LapStitch™ joints are filled with epoxy, the result is a remarkably stiff and strong hull that is outwardly indistinguishable from traditional lapstrake planking. Even better, the strength of the LapStitch™ joint is such that the designs require comparatively little fiberglass or fillet work, making them especially easy to build. LapStitch™ combines the unquestioned grace of lapstrake hulls with the proven ease of stitch-and-glue construction. |
The Annapolis Wherry emerges from the kit in pieces and is painstakingly handcrafted with care and precision to form this beautiful sculling craft.