Launchings

Last August, on Lake Erie, in Erie, Pennsylvania, Carl Longnecker launched his new 15′ Chester Yawl, built from a kit by Chesapeake Light Craft. The boat is stitch-and-glue construction. 

Today I launched my winter 2013 project, a hybrid 17′ Chesapeake kayak by CLC boats. Learned so much building her and she paddles like a dream. The hull is made from mahogany plywood, while the deck is bead & cove cedar strip.

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.

ARTEMIS is a John Atkin design, (#772 Wanderer), that my father started building in 1957 and I finished and launched here in VT in 2005. Well, finished is not correct as I am still working on her, and re-fitting her for her 20th anniversary on the water next year.  

This Chesapeake Light Craft Wood Duck 10′ hybrid strip kayak was built with white cedar, walnut, and Doug fir by Community Boat Building campers.

MISS LILY is an 11′ Westport Skiff designed by Doug Hylan (www.dhylanboats.com) and built by Rob Hazzard and Chip Schoeneck. The pair launched MISS LILY on Memorial Day 2018.

A 100-year-old corncrib provided much of the wood for this 25' Chesapeake Skipjack. The keelson, frames, centerboard, and rudder are white oak. The cabin sides and trim are solid cherry. The builder, Lynn Miller, plans to use it for extended voyaging and cruising on the Great Lakes.

Amanda Rogers and her father, Jim, built this rowboat at a three-day Family Boatbuilding Workshop sponsored by the Inland Seas Education Center in Suttons Bay, MI. They used marine plywood and treated yellow pine for construction.

15′6″ Cottage cruiser. Local red cedar, cherry and white oak. Hand woven cane seats.

Newfound Woodworks of Bristol, New Hampshire was the source for this Adirondack Guide Boat kit built by Michael Cruden of Ballston Spa, New York.