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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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CANOE
Dennis Hefling and his son built this 17'5" cedar-strip canoe from plans that Dennis drew up.
MALUHIA
MALUHIA means safety, serenity, and peace in Hawaiian. She is a John Gardner designed Carolina Dory, 19′8″ x 8′6″. Russell Durler of Layton, Utah built her using Douglas fir and white oak, and launched her in July 2000.
Oiseau
Everyone seems to love this little boat. Building one of Iain Oughtred’s designs has been a real pleasure — his plans are superb and to my eye at least are a work of art on their own. She performs really well, just out paddling, fishing or taking on some easy rivers.
VERITY
Verity is the first Bristol 16, designed in tandem with a 32 foot motor launch for the same owner, which is in build now.She is of composite build: strip planked in Western Red Cedar, epoxy/glass sheathed, fitted out in teak, W R Cedar and plywood.
PATIENCE
This is a PT Watercraft PT 11 I built from their fantastic kit. I completed it in Fall ’21. It is painted inside and out with Perfection two-part urethane to protect it from the Florida sun and keep it cool. I left a small stripe of clear around the interior to show what it is really made of.
Hannah's Paddleboard
Sixteen year old Hannah Dumser is at it again. She and her dad just completed a 12′6″ Kaholo paddleboard kit from Chesapeake Light Craft.
TT Mediator
My son and I built this CLC stitch and glue Eastport Pram to serve as our dinghy for our Passport sailboat. We wanted something that was light weight, easy to use, and not a typical inflatable.
WALTZING MATILDA
Paul Day of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, built this folding schooner, Phil Bolger design 268. WALTZING MATILDA is 31 feet long and 5 feet long. Paul reports she planes through the water at a 'scorching speed'. He and his wife launched her on a lake near their home.
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