Launchings

After the parts were cut from marine plywood by their grandfather, Tavish and Niam Rogers assembled their first boat using copper ring nails and polyurethane construction adhesive.

John Parrish built this Tandem Annapolis Wherry from a kit by Chesapeake Light Craft. He writes that at 19′10″, it is 3′ longer than the one-man version of the same boat, and that it was the first one that CLC put into kit form.

GNALGAN has been my project over the winter months in Victoria, Australia. The name is an Australian Aboriginal word for the “Nankeen Night Heron.”She is made of 4mm marine ply which has been coated inside and out with fibreglass.

4 different cedars with a mahogany trim, she’s a joy to row.Newfound Woodworks designed kit.

Glassy water is pretty easy in a 1960s fiberglass Alden rowing shell, but when the afternoon southwesterly comes up the New Meadows River in West Bath, Maine, the flat bottom craft wants to surf, yaw and roll as she’s headed downwind for home, John Van Orden went searching for a more sea kindly s

Rowboat #17 was developed over the course of 5 years. I had built 16 models to evaluate performance and ease of building. The main purpose was for pleasure rowing with my dogs Rowdy & Nala.

I completed my CLC Shearwater 17 last week and had my launching on Friday. Here are some pictures of the boat after I put the final touches on it, as well as of me on the water.

Skeena is a 20 foot cat ketch rigged trailer sailor. She weighs about 700 pounds and draws 9″ board up and 42″ with the board down. Water ballast adds another 400+ pounds. We sail her on the finger lakes, 1000 Islands and Chesapeake bay with plans for plenty of other spots by trailer.

Steve Lansdowne took several courses at WB school in the summers of 2000 and 2001.

Relaunching a Nutshell Pram. Now we need to make a mast and sail! She rows great!!