Amphoras, Bass Boats, even a Caliban! Over the years Peter Stevenson has designed more than fifty boats and almost all of those had sets of plans published for them. While we have no longer offer all of these plans, we thought people might want to see some of the photos builders have shared with us through the decades.

The Amphora may rejoin the ranks soon, as we've been considering re-doing those plans. It's a great boat and we always enjoyed ours very much.

Amphora, Alexander Gudschinsky, AK

This Amphora was built by Alexander Gudschinsky, with help from his sister Laura and father Mark. If you have a copy of The Amphora, you'll understand the shot above with Alexander reclining in his nearly-finished Amphora! Great job, and a new look for our boats; I haven't ever seen this paint scheme on one of our boats. Nice job Alexander!

A note from Mr. Guschinsky about the project:

Here is Alexander Gudschinsky's Swimmer. Built by Alexander with help
from his sister Laura, and Dad.

Alexander and Laura did all of the lofting. Alexander did all of the
cutting but he made Dad do most of the sanding. The design for the paint
job is 100% Alexander's.

He was in a race to complete his boat with the builders of the Amphora
Dragon, so he ended up launching in the ice filled waters of the Chena
River in Fairbanks Alaska. The race isn't finished though. There is an
ongoing challange to see which Capian and Crew can find the most sunken
artifacts by summers end.

Thanks

Mark Gudschinsky

Amphora, Brian Matthews, Canada

Wow — We didn't expect to see any of the little Amphora being built again, as the book that design was in went out of print decades ago. Nonetheless, at least three have been built this early 2004 season! Very cool; the Amphora is one of our favorites. We may just have to bring the plan back...In the meantime, look on www.abe.com for used copies of The Amphora, by Peter Stevenson. It was the second book in a trilogy of project books for younger builders (ten and up about), along with The Buffy-Porson (how to build a coaster car) and Farming In Boxes (a greenhouse project.)

Mr. Matthews sent us several pics of his beautiful Amphora above, as well as a very nice Weekender also, so we put them on a separate page: Click Here to see the photos!

I love the look of unrepentant scalawags in these guys! Proud, and rightfully so...
Another well-earned rest!
Amphora, The Lucketts, MI
Another of 2004's season of Amphorae. The Dragon was built by the two young fellows Sam and Ben above (looking justifiably proud of their new craft!) There was a bit of a race this spring between two groups of young builders, the Luckett's in Michigan and the Gudschinskys in Alaska! The Alaskan crew got their boat in the water a nose ahead, but we think both groups are winners! Well done to you all, and we look forward to more shots when you start exploring this summer!

The Caliban, builder unknown

These are pretty surprising shots: The boat design is The Caliban, one of Peter Stevenson's very early works. It was the first of his designs featured in a magazine, Boating if I remember correctly. This was before we started handling the plans sales ourselves, and was probably at the tail-end of the 1960's.

These shots were sent to us by a person who had seen this boat posted for sale on the net. He wondered if we still had plans, which unfortunately we don't (not even a copy for our archives — if anyone out there has a set they'd be willing to lend or sell, let us know!) We were glad to get the shots though. It looks like the boat was well enjoyed!

Bass Boats!
The Bass Boat was a project we did for Popular Mechanics back in the early '80's. It was a good powerboat, but we've shifted our plans focus more toward sailing and electric boats in recent years. Still: it was a fun boat and we wanted to share these old pics.
Bass Boat, E.H. Jatin, Surinam!
This was a surprise: a very nicely done Bass Boat being used as a river ambulence by a clinic in Surinam (north part of South America). Although we no longer sell the Bass Boat plans, we thought people might get a kick out of this.
Bass Boat, Gerard Petrella
"...a scan of my recently completed Bass boat. I spent about two months working on it during the
summer. I worked on it at my leisure that s why it took me two months, I could have completed it much faster if I would have concentrated on it. As you can see in the scan I really loaded it with options, amateur radio,marine ship to shore, airiated live wells, deluxe swivel seats, teleflex steering, 15 horse electric start Johnson out board, and a Johnson trolling motor. The boat handles well but I would like to use a bigger motor, but the flat bottom makes for a bumpy ride at fast speeds. I finished the boat with oil base paint and did not elect to fiberglass the hull. It has not taken on any water, I also used non snag marine carpeting in the cockpit and on the casting decks. As I said before, I am very pleased with the boat. I have sent for your Kayak plans and I am looking forward to building that in the near future. I also have your mini cat plans but just never got a round to building one. I am to busy playing with my other toy as my wife calls it. I will send you a scan of it also, I built it back in 1987 and it flys great."