This is their 14′ tyee – not a “whitehall” or “whitehall spirit” – the tyee’s wider beam and higher freeboard makes it a fine family or fishing boat. this boat features teak trim (copper clench fastened!) and solid teak seats.. Painter designed wooden tyee lapstrake rowboat. built from lines taken off the original painter no.16 used to fish for tyee chinook salmon by rowing in the tyee pool off campbell river b.c.. The tyee 14 traditional rowboat is renowned for the way it carries a load and comfortably handles wind, waves, and choppy tidal waters. it has a fullness of beam which extends along the hull, and the transom is three inches broader than the whitehall spirit