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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RETROSPECTIVE

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Lee Rea

Lee Rea sent in his recently completed Ken Hankinson runabout, RETROSPECTIVE.

ELLA I

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Carl Longnecker

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.

KALOS

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Carl H. Sylvester

The Salt Bay Skiff was the grand prize winner of the Family Boatbuilding Design Contest held by WoodenBoat in 2007. Carl Sylvester built KALOS from "Getting Started in Wooden Boats," the supplement in issues 199 and 200, over the course of ten months.

BEAGLE

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America Marine

Drake 19

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Walter Baron, Old Wharf Dory Co.

The Drake 19 is an expedition/cruising rowboat designed by Clint Chase and built by Walter Baron of Old Wharf Dory Co.

Made It

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Paul Fithian

Fithian modified Tolman Jumbo Skiff, 25′.

Li'l Longship

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Warren Jordan

I designed and built the cradle boat Li’l Longship for my soon-to-be-launched grandson. With her bold, sweeping hull lines and imposing figureheads I’ve tried to capture the spirit of the classic Viking Longship.

Cradle Sharpie

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Kevin Moroney

Kevin Moroney of Cape Coral, Florida, was building an 18′ modified sharpie skiff when his grandson, Colin, was born in Denver, Colorado, last year.

KELLY ANN

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Manasseh Durkin

Seventeen-year-old Manasseh Durkin built this 19' x 6'5"Sparkman and Stephens designed Lightning KELLY ANN in 2003-2004. Launched in April 2004, it is planked with cypress wood, with bronze fasteners. The deck is made of mahogany, and the spars are longleaf heart pine.

LEAH CAROLINE

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Henry Vokey

The handsom new 44 ft schooner LEAH CAROLINE launched at Trinity, Newfoundland July 7 2012. The latest of many vessels large and small built by 86 year old shipbuilder Henry Vokey of that town. Hundreds of onlookers waited for hours in the rain for the big splashdown.