Fourteen of them were built by Herb Brown. I worked with Herb in his shop at First Connecticut Lake. Herb had been building boats for years with pine and cedar. I had marine plywood and oak and Herb never used anything but oak and plywood after that. These boats are still in use and like new because they have been taken care of.
Wooden boats require a lot of care and reasonable use.
Herb and I built four boats one winter and five the next. In the meantime, our son Russell had bought Bacon's Cabins, renamed Driftwood. So the next winter, Herb, Russell and I built twelve boats - seven for Driftwood and five for Tall Timber. This was in the 1950s. The rest of our boats were aluminum, mostly fifteen and sixteen footers.