My first design was built while I was in “Boatschool.”  A catboat I designed in the first year and built in the second.  As with most school projects, it wasn’t finished when I graduated, but I did hear a few years back that it was completed and sailed.

Right out of Boatschool, I was lucky to partner with Eric Dow of Brooklin Maine.  He had graduated the year before me – the first graduates from the program at Lubec. – and we worked together for three or four years.  Among the boats we built was a 22′ Friendship Sloop, Defiance.  This boat still sails, I was aboard in the mid-nineties and she’s had an extensive re-fit since then.

After returning to college and pursuing painting for over a decade, I returned to boatbuilding and then design.  In the early nineties, I designed and built a small number of interesting small boats.  More on those when I get the pictures digitized…  This was also the period when I wrote Designer & Client.

I continued to design after leaving New York and returning to the coast here in Rhode Island.  I’ll be filling out this Portfolio as time permits.