Design
Downeast Double Ender
Designed by Walt Simmons
An 18 ft double ender from Walt Simmons of Duck Trap Woodworking in Lincolnville, Maine, a shop known for traditional lapstrake wherries and double enders. She is sold as a full-size lofting, a set of lines drawn at actual size on 36 in wide paper so the moulds and backbone can be taken straight off the sheet. The designer's site lists her among his plans but has not yet published a description, beam, weight or rig.
With no build guidance published for this design, treat her as a project for someone with previous planking experience. Open boats of this length typically take 400 to 900 hours, which is a rule of thumb and not a designer figure. Real hours from logged builds are below.
What building a Downeast Double Ender actually takes
Medians from the build logs kept on this site, not the designer’s estimate. Nobody has logged this boat here yet, so they are empty until the first builder does.
Those medians firm up as more people log this boat.
Builds of this boat
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If you are building one, yours becomes the reference: the page the next person building this boat finds when they search for it. One photo and one line is a valid first entry.
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