We chose to build this slightly smaller variant of a Piscataqua River Wherry designed by Bud McIntosh as we believe it would give us a nearly ideal fixed-seat recreational rowboat for the open bay on which we live here in Port Townsend, WA. Bud’s version is 15 ft. long by 4 ft. wide and built almost entirely from Alaska yellow cedar employing traditional lapstrake construction. It has proven to be a slippery yet relatively stable–indeed a pleasure to row, not to mention look at!