ELLANDELL

Ellen Blye

The double-ended waterlines will allow ELLANDELL to coast along easily while being rowed.

After his kids were grown and out of the house, Elliot Arons found himself with lots of free time on his hands. As liberating as that might be, he often found himself “wallowing in front of the TV.” His daughter Emily prodded him to do something more productive and suggested he build another boat. When she was much younger she’d seen him build a Platt Monfort Dacron-skinned canoe, a project that he seemed to enjoy. But the building had turned out to be more engaging than the paddling. He used the canoe a few times on the annual summer trips to Friendship, Maine, but after that it gathered dust in the basement of the family home in the Bronx. What he really wanted was a sailboat.

Elliot Arons

The kit arrived neatly packaged, including custom-fit blocks to keep pieces from shifting during shipping.