Built in one of our classes and sailed here in Maine

The oars stow easily in the Echo

Another workshop built boat being sailed for a video for Off Center Harbor.com

The Echo Bay comes with a spritsail Ipictured) or a lugsail rig.

The Echo Bay sails well in light wind

This EBDS has the standard boomed lugsail.

Sailing in Maine with schooners as the back drop

Sailing into the sun on Center Harbor off WoodenBoat’s waterfront.

This is an earlier EBDS demo boat that we had for a while; this one was started as a rowing version and became a sailing version.

Note that this sailing version started as a rowing version and has solid wood thwarts with flotation foam underneath.

The Echo Bay Dory Skiff combines the spirit and versatility of a traditional dory with the performance of a small sailing dinghy. 

A class built Echo Bay hits the water off Small Point in Casco Bay, Maine.

The Echo Bay is a small, portable sail-and-oar boat

The Skiff is very seaworthy once the owner knows how to handle th eboat and rig.

The Skiff has two lugsail variants, this one the original lug rig with a boom along the bottom edge (foot) of the sail

This is the original Echo Bay built by Eric Risch in the 80s.

The original non-kit version of the EBDS

Two Echo Bays prep for an adventure

The Echo Bay sails great to windward

The Echo sails through a harbor back to the dock after an adventure

A fresh breeze with the Sprit rig.

Beaching the Echo Bay is very easy.

Sailing off Mere Point in Casco Bay, Maine

The original EBDS with sprit rig at our annual Chase Small Craft Messabout

This shows the sprit boom - one advantage is the boom is high above head level!

Tacking an Echo Bay is easy

This is the lugsail we ship regularly now, it is a standing lug with sprit boom and about 57 square feet of area.