WILLIAM GARDEN (Canadian/American 1918-2011)
THE NOD CRADLE BOAT
lapstrake double pram blunt ended cradle boat, designed and built by
William Garden (Canadian 1918 – 2011) for his grandsons, made of
plywood, complete with oar, custom sail and cradle stand. Constructed
in traditional lapstrake construction with copper rivets and rigged as a
downwind square rigged sailer.
size 36" LOA, 30" LWL, 23" beam, 2" draft
Built for his grandchildren, the Nod is a working, functioning boat. Nod
was launched by William Garden in 1994 for her trial run just off
Toad's Landing in Sidney, BC with a teddy bear at the helm. She went
on to spend the next 30 years on land indoors. More information about
this little boat can be found in Wililam Garden's 1998 book where it is
profiled under Row Boats, pages 8-12"
Size in inches: 48 h x 50 w x 25 d
M21153
WILLIAM GARDEN (Canadian/American 1918-2011) 'The Nod Cradle Boat'
Please contact Dealer for more information
Uno Langmann Limited
Fine Art & Antique Dealers
2117 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC Canada | V6H 3E9
T: 604.736.8825 | 1.800.730.8825
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
"The design of the little ship Nod was commissioned for my grandsons
as a proper vessel to instill in infant mariners an early touch of
seafaring, a sturdy berth of traditional form for snoozing and a first feel
of proper framing, good copper fastenings, plus a view upward into a
well-cut main course with proper gear rove off for voyages into
dreamland. Now a regular cradle boat is fine but the kid falls out,
chews up the gun’l or such, and it’s good for a year or so then
relegated to the attic boneyard awaiting the next occupant. Nod,
however, has been given sufficient tonnage to actually go voyaging
across a pool or along a reedy shoreline accompanied at tow line end
by a swimming parent, the young mariner alert and steely-eyed, lathe
sword at the ready, with a good view forward under the bellying foot of
the main course." - Garden