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Launchings
This section of our web site, an extension of the Launchings department of WoodenBoat magazine, is dedicated to sharing news of recently launched wooden boats built or restored by our readers. If you’ve launched a boat within the past year, please email us at launchings@woodenboat.com, or post your news here. (All posts are subject to approval and editing before being made live.)
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INTERLUDE
Paul Wagstaff's catboat was two decades in the designing and building. He was attracted to catboats because of their stability and he wanted a boat that could be built in his garage, trailered easily, and could be single-handed.
Freedom
Freedom is a Jim Michalak designed trimaran. Built with the stitch and glue method.
Straight to Voicemail
She is a Big Ben Garvey designed by Doug Hylan. A wedding gift for my younger daughter and her husband Casey and Joe Bedard she was only about two years late but the new owners love it. She is epoxy/fiberglass over fir plywood with a simple painted finish and unfinished red cedar floorboards.
HELLEN
When Brian Clark completed a yearlong restoration of his great-grandfather's boat, HELLEN, he promptly won three awards at the 2008 Antique and Classic Boat Society's boat festival in St. Michael's, Maryland: People's Choice, Competitor's Choice, and Best-in-Class Workboat.
Sandpiper
Stitch & glue Pocketship gaff-rigged yacht
Sydney, Australia
1 Dec 2012
Designer: John Harris
Builder: Bob Fuller
LOA: 15'
CHRISTIN MARIE
CHRISTIN MARIE is a modified version of Reuel B. Parkers Exuma 52 design. This is a shoal draft, pilot house, centerboard schooner. Hull is cold-molded, covered in Xynole-Polyester cloth. I modified the cabin to allow for walk-through in the NW colder climate.
PELICAN
Carmel Dodds built this 14' Jimmy Skiff, from Chesapeake Light Craft, with her husband Peter so she could take her dog, Skeetwing, swimming at Crab Bank in Charleston, South Carolina. This stitch-and-glue kit boat was launched in October of 2001 on Horse Creek in Mt. Pleasant, SC.
Shrimp
My 9′6″ Nutshell Pram. I commissioned it to be built by the Long Island School of Wooden Boatbuilding where I lent a hand and became part of the process. I launched it on 9/23/2018 — and can say with confidence that it is the best boat I’ve ever sailed.
CHAISSON DORY TENDER
Bruce Bowlen built this George Chaisson designed dory tender from information given in John Gardner's "The Dory Book." The bottom and planking are made from plywood, stem and skeg from oak, and transom and remaining parts from mahogany.
Pagination
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1942 copy of a Herreshoff Buzzards Bay Boat
Built on Deer Isle in 1942 , it has an 800 pound steel keel, 4 foot draft.
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1956 39' Concordia Masthead Yawl $10,500
This vessel received a complete refit in 2007-2008 including re-powering, new decks, new standing
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1928 Herreshoff 12 1/2
Great little boat I’m letting go of for something larger.
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Great Lakes Class sloop
Built by the Burr Bros in 1960, this 36' beauty with a 10'9" beam was restored over seven years a