Here you see two WoodenBoat School creations basking on the campus in Thursday’s sun. These boats may look somewhat similar at first glance, but they were made using different traditional hull-building methods.
On the left, the smooth hull on the Whitehall Pulling Boat is “carvel-built” with cotton and marine putty caulking between planks, and she probably will be used as a rowboat:
By the way, that 12.5-foot Whitehall is up for sale at what appears to be a bargain price of $1,700.00, according to a note inside her hull.
The hull of the other boat, a Chaisson Dory, is “lapstrake-“ or “clinker-built” with overlapping planks fastened tightly by rivets, and she is designed to be used as a small sailboat as well as a rowboat:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on July 7, 2022.)