1- Silent Maid Home (Construction to date on one page)

2-The Original Silent Maid

3-Silent Maid Plans

4- Mold and Backbone

5- Ribbands and frames

6- Floor Timbers

7- Mast Hoops

8- Spars

9- Deadwood and Ballast

10- Planking

11- Turning Over Silent Maid

12 - Interior Joinery

13- Cockpit

14- Deck

1- A Sail Plan

2- Building Spars

3- Some Rigging Details

4- Assembling Elf's Rig

1- Steam, Guns and Furniture

2- Building a Pilot House

1 - Assembling a Mast

2- The Spar Lathe

3- Sailing Sandbaggers

4-WHYY Arts and Culture Clip

5- Planking Silent Maid

6- Building Spyder

1- Building Torch in 2002

2- Building Spyder

1888 Sloop "Elf"
Cruiser "Olympia's" Pilothouse
Catboat "Silent Maid"
Jersey Cats, A Short History
Movies
Three years ago I started this site to follow the construction of one boat, Silent Maid. At the time I thought the Workshop crew would build her in a single block of time. Instead all the other opportunities listed on this page, and a few others, presented themselves and Silent Maid was delayed several times. Silent Maid was launched on June 14, 2009 and is now being fitted out alongside the Independence Seaport Museum dock. In the very near future she will sail for the first time.

Below are two webcam views of projects underway at the Workshop on the Water. The images can be refreshed every minute between 9 am and 5 pm and once an hour through the night. If no activity is visible it is because the crew is busy elsewhere in the shop.

John Brady

Boatbuilder

Links
A Class Catboat "Spyder"
A spacious shop while Silent Maid is fitted out on the dock.
Most Recently Updated Page

1- Movie - "Silent Maid's First Voyage"

2- Movie - "Silent Maid Launch"

Restoring a 15' Sneakbox

Silent Maid on the Independence Seaport Museum Dock

Restoring "Misleading Lady" a 1928 Ventnor Runabout
"Torch" and "Spyder"
"Silent Maid"
"Elf"
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