The Candlefish has comfortable seating for the family and plenty of freeboard.Thomas Rowley

The Candlefish has comfortable seating for the whole family and plenty of freeboard.

Scott Rowley, his wife Amy, and their daughters Elli and Livvy live on Steamboat Peninsula, near Olympia, Washington, at the south end of Puget Sound. The aluminum boat that they’d been using was getting on in years and needed to be retired; with the waters of Eld Inlet just beyond their back yard, going without a boat was out of the question. When Scott saw our Boat Profile of Devlin Designing Boatbuilders’ Candlefish 13 in our April 2015 issue, he decided he’d build one as the family’s next boat. He had done some woodworking, but had never built a boat before, and he looked forward to the project as a pleasant diversion from the pressures of his work as a pediatric dentist and the stress of having a new office under construction.
When you've used truck-bed liner to paint a boat you don't have to worry about dragging it up on the ricks. Thomas Rowley

When you've used truck-bed liner for paint, you don't have to worry about dragging the boat up on the rocks.

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