Jeremiah Gallay's earliest boating memories are of canoe outings with his dad on the rivers and lakes of Maryland. The experiences made a lasting impression; he took up sailing while studying art in college, and his interest in boats drifted into his studies. Fallen leaves and branches suggested floating sculpture, and he built functional watercraft in organic forms. Years later, Jeremiah created LEAF-BOAT, modeled after a fallen leaf with its edges curled upward. He drew the leaf, modified and scaled the drawings, and built the design as a cedar-strip-on-oak-frame vessel to be paddled by a crew of two. After building his first boat in 1994, Jeremiah found ways to combine his newfound love of boatbuilding with his career as a sculptor. LEAF-BOAT is one of four sculptural, tree-inspired boats.Photographs by and courtesy of Jeremiah Gallay
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Great looking Boat. I subscribe to the boatbuilding-is-therapy theory. Now only if I can decide which of the Sam Devlin plans I purchased to use before the price of marine plywood leaves my boatbuilding dreams in the wake!
Absolutely true, boatbuilding kept my sanity during the lockdown.