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DAISY MAE
Photos by John Schellinger
For the past 35 years, John Schellinger has nurtured a passion for traditionally built wooden skiffs. To date he has built 15 of them. The two Lawton tenders he built in 2022 and 2023 appeared in the Launchings section of WB No. 298 in 2024. His latest is an 11' 2" version of the 12' Lawley yacht tender detailed in John Gardner’s Building Classic Small Craft, Volume 2. Schellinger, now a full-time cabinetmaker, builds his boats in his free time in what was once a hay loft in the barn near his home in Avon, Minnesota. The lower levels of the barn are where he keeps his woodworking machinery and the boats he has kept for himself. His Lawley tender has Atlantic white cedar planking and mahogany sheerstrakes on a white-oak backbone and steam-bent frames. Twenty months after he began the project, John launched DAISY MAE in July 2025 and rows her on the many lakes around Avon.