1930 Schooner MISTRESS

Skip is looking for a project in the northeast next summer. 

Please feel free to email or call him at shipwright@1930schoonermistress.com - 904 347-3763

if have need of his talent and expertise. 

Skip and friend Danny win the National Boat Building Challenge and set a new world record with a finish time of 2 hours, 26 mins., 35 secs. 

To read more about it follow this link to an article written by

CAROLINA CURRENTS. 

10/25/08 update - The record was broken by a few minutes at the Final Challenge.  He plans on going back to Beaufort, NC to take his title back. 

Skip was born and raised on the Chesapeake Bay spending time building and restoring boats, fishing, crabbing, and oystering.  In the 1980's, he graduated from the Landing Boat school in Maine.  Although Skip has a wooden boat soul, his experience includes all types of boats and many different types of contruction.  The following pictures are of work Skip has done over the years and show the quality of work an owner can expect from him.  You can also check out Memory Mondays to see the extensive work he did for MISTRESS.

Formally known as EL PRESIDENTE, Skip helped to transform INNISFAIL back to original condition first by remaking the wheel house, then restoring the main saloon, and also with an intricate stair rail leading to the owner's cabin.  Follow this link to see more pictures of the restoration work done on INNISFAIL.  To see the finished product and to learn more about this wonderful yacht, click on the above picture.  Once at the site, click on video. 

Skip does great bright work.

 This little pram Skip designed and built works as a great tender.  I have pictures of her with three big guys in her and she still showed plenty of freeboard, enough for lots of stores.  She is a good row, too.

 This hardtop Skip built weighed in at 50 lbs, less than the canvas it replaced.  After several years, the owner had Skip build another out of carbon fiber which weighed less than 40 lbs.  Both included rain catchers and a skylight. 

 Skip did extensive work on LABELLA MIA, I only got pictures of this compass rose. 

 If you are a member of the family you get to enjoy Skip's work in other ways.  Tim and I both got chests, his is oak with mahogany inlay and a secret compartment, mine is aromatic cedar with a schooner inlay.  The finish on mine is 30 coats of tounge oil. 

This is the largest of three tables built for the schooner MARY NORMA.  To the right of the photo, you can see the smallest of the three.  They were made from ash and purple heart. 

Skip did the varnish work on this 30' Hacker Craft. 

Skip and Eric Kemp built this 30 foot Hurricanne Island Pulling Boat for Outward Bound.  It offers camping type accomodates for up to 14 people for two weeks.