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.
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Miss Linda

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Eric Bishop

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

CORSAIR

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Steve Batiste

Steve Batiste found the plans for this 'Corky' design on the website http://hometown.aol.com/polytarp/corky.htm . The article includes no citation to the builder or the designer.

From Left Colin, Allen, and Ian Kay with their new Kaholo.

Kaholo Stand-Up Paddleboard

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Allen, Colin, and Ian Kay

Allen Kay and his sons (Colin on left, Ian on right) finished a 14′ Kaholo just in time for a short paddle in Maryland before hauling it to Lake Megunticook in Maine for two weeks to put it through its paces. “They love it,” Allen says.

KARI-SAN

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Lee Sandifur

Lee Sandifur built KARI-SAN (15'2" x 4'10") from plans by Samuel Devlin using stitch-and-glue construction. He launched her in Olympia, WA on August 18, 2001. She carries a 13' long mast, which he built of Alaskan cedar.

THE EMERALD

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Roger Kofler

THE EMERALD is a Six-Hour canoe built by Roger Kofler of Jennings Lodge, Oregon. Roger followed plans in WoodenBoat No.

Harbour Pram

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Ron Bauer

Ron Bauer built this model skiff to go with the model of his Bunker & Ellis picnic boat. The scale of the skiff model is 1'' = 1'.

CLANCY CLASS SAILING DINGHY

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David Lester

David Lester sails this boat in Puget Sound near his home in Fox Island, WA. She is a Clancy class sailing dinghy designed by J. D. Brown and Bob Pickett of Anacortes, WA. David constructed her of 1/4" okoume plywood using the stitch-and-glue method. She has a 9'9" LOA with a beam of 4'.

Periwinkle

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Gavin Watson

A modified Chesapeake Light Craft Guider. I built this boat over the 2021-2022 winter in my garage/shop in Connecticut. I am sailing her out of Pulpit Harbor in Penobscott Bay, Maine.

CHRISTINE

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Mark Foote

Yankee Tender per Asa Thompson plans revised by Wooden Boat. Trim and transom modified. First boat made. Rows beautifully and very stable for a small boat.

ONE COAT BRAMBLE

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Bob Bramble

Bob Bramble wanted to design a boat that would hold his one-man trailer and was able to launch 27'4" ONE COAT BRAMBLE in July of 2002 at Aqualand Marina in Maryland. Bob built the backbone of oak and Douglas fir. The frames are also oak and Douglas fir.