Launchings

GUNKHOLER travels the waters of San Francisco Bay and the Petaluma River. Builder John Price has been peacefully gunkholing these California waters since the launch in October 2002.

Tom Fulton built this Chesapeake Light Craft 17 kayak from a kit. CRISPO is 17′ long with a 2′ beam. This was Tom's first build. He launched her on April 11, 2011 on Prospertown Lake in Cream Ridge, NJ, and will use her as a sea kayak along the Jersey shore.

Off Center Harbor Skiff. White pine on white oak frames.

DRAGON-FLIER is the third wooden boat that Brad Story has built. The Ply-Flier is designed by Stevenson Projects of Carmel, CA. He modified the plans to strip the sides instead of constructing them from plywood. The strips are poplar and cedar; and the trim, rudder, and transom are cherry.

Boy Scout Troop 617 in Columbia, Maryland, undertook building a Bevin’s Skiff to expose the Scouts to parts of a building project they would later face when doing their Eagle Scout projects.Working from an instruction manual provided with the kit from Alexa

Last year, the physics class at the International Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, built cardboard boats as a class project. Each group of four students had to design a boat that could be built from 4′ x 8′ sheets of eighth-inch-thick corrugated cardboard.

The year 2002 was a busy year for Mitchell Skinner. He built three wooden boats. The smallest is an 8' sprit-rigged catboat SIMPLY MAGIC, that he designed for his wife to use with her dog, Magic. Since this photo was taken, a larger sail has been added.

Phyxius is a kayak race boat. It is a CLC designed kit — West River 180. It is 4mm plywood built super light. I have over 250 miles of competition. John Harris got this design out of his obsolete files and retooled it for me. A very good boat for moderate distance racing.

Rick Culliton and his son, Tom, in a 16' kayak designed by Rick for use in the lakes and rivers near his home in Germantown, MD.