The Liz is an elegant pulling boat designed by Ken Bassett of Onion River Boatworks. This 18’5” Pulling/Sculling craft was originally a lapstrake construction with bench seats. Under Ken’s direction, we lofted his lapstrake plans to a marine CAD program and developed it for the natural wooden beauty of cove & bead strip building with epoxy resin and fiberglass cloth providing strength and protection. The great benefit of the strip-built version is that we can shed about 30 lbs. of weight compared to lapstrake. Coupled with a Sliding Rowing Seat, this sleek and elegant design will provide you with all the sculling style exercise you want while including a great deal of stability, much more than a typical rowing shell. Note that you can carry a passenger in our version of this pulling boat, something you wouldn’t be able to do in a rowing shell. She is a beauty that effortlessly glides through the water.
This specific Liz is a commissioned custom-built boat built by Newfound Woodworks for a private client. She was started in early fall of 2023 and was crafted using the Stapleless method, using only cedar strips, wood glue, epoxy, fiberglass, and varnish over a set of forms. Her hulls is constructed of 3 types of Cedar: Western Red, Alaskan Yellow, and Northern White, with a single Mohogany strip. She is accented with Mahogany gunnels and keel, and Spanish Cedar: deck, stems, transom, and stern fan seat. We worked on it every Saturday (including quite a few evenings when we had some available time) throughout the winter and finished the third week of June 2024.
More information available on our Liz design at: newfound.com