Launchings

Warren Price spent six months building a Nutshell Pram. He wants this Joel White–design as a tender for him 18′ Lyman Islander which was named THE QUEEN when he bought her. Naturally, the pram will be THE LADY IN WAITING. Warren launched her in June 2011 on the Cross River in Boothbay. Maine.

Mark and Jane Serrianne love their 1953 Lyman Ideal, SHAWSHANK, that they recently restored and then launched on Chautauqua Lake, New York. SHAWSHANK, 13'2" × 4'8", had dry rot in the bottom, which they removed and repaired.

One off design. 3/8" AC ply lapstrake hull, copper rivets/ rove, reverse stem.

Growler is our new, highly versatile transom-stern cruising canoe, and “big sister” to our popular and highly acclaimed 12 ft. solo canoe, Newt.

David had attended a traditional boatbuilding course at Mystic Seaport, and there became smitten with Swampscott dories.

This is a copy of the XVIII century boat. She belonged to the Russian emperor Peter first. The original is now stored in the Naval Museum, in Sank-Petersburg, Russia.

Craig Kitchen of Marquette, MI has built several boats in the past few years - Chesapeake 17, an Endeavor, a Guillemot, a Winisk 17, and a CLC 16LT  shown here. Craig built this 16LT with cedar-strip deck for Cheryl Sleeman of Michigan.

She is named “Arundel” after her birthplace. My brother and I started work on her hull as a side project while attending the Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design in Arundel, Maine even although her completion and launch would take place in Arizona.

FEATHER is a 16' cedar strip sea kayak Guilllemot design by Nick Schade of East Glastonbury, CT This is the first boat Mitchell Skinner built. It was launched in May 2002 and he uses it on the coast of Maine and NH.

For Christmas 2001, Tom Koenig's wife gave him Dynamite Payson's plans for Teal, a Phil Bolger-designed double-ended sailing skiff, 12' long and 3'6" beam. He spent the winter building the boat. For her launching in July 2002, he drove five hours from his house to Pamlico Sound, NC.