10 Cast Net: Alaska Boat Builders

Alaska Boat Builders

A Tolman Skiff is a thoroughly modern vee-bottom stitch and glue wooden boat with a dory ancestry. Designed in Alaska for Alaskan waters, these ocean-capable boat designs are available in THREE MODELS, the Standard, the Widebody and the Jumbo, in lengths from 18’ to 24’, and powered by outboard motors from 40hp to 140hp. Due to its light weight in relation to its size, a Tolman Skiff wooden boat is very economical to operate, yet will ride well due to their variable vee-bottom construction, chine flats and spray rails. With stitch-and-glue construction, most of the wooden boat hull strength comes from the plywood, therefore minimal framing is required. Even though the hull is marine plywood, every square inch is sheathed in fiberglas cloth set in epoxy resin thereby sealing all the wooden parts from water intrusion. This wooden boat benefits from the superior strength of plywood yet is as easy to maintain as a fiberglas boat.