Launchings

John and Barbara Strattan built these kayaks in 2003. They are Mill Creek 13 kayaks, designed by Chris Kulczyki of CLC. They use the pair on the streams and rivers of north central Kentucky.

Raimo Repo of Ontario built JOY, a 13' Chamberlain dory skiff, from lines drawn by the late Mr. John Gardner. He bought the plans from the Mystic Seaport Museum after attending the WoodenBoat Show at Mystic in the late 1990s.

Novice boater Norah Ketrow loves her new boat KELP, a present for her first birthday from her father, Aaron. The design is an Original Gloucester Rocker, built from plans sold by The WoodenBoat Store, www.woodenboatstore.com.

Stephanie Alley launched this flat bottom skiff, PYXIS, on July 17, 2004. The design for PYXIS is based on the skiff SILAS by J. A. Emmett and was built by Sam Temple of Blue Hill, ME. It is built of cedar planking on whiteoak frames.

Mike Nichols and his son Christopher built this 13'6" speedboat. The plans were from Glen-L Marine and they used stitch and glue construction. They use it with a 50 hp mercury engine on Lake Champlain. After spending more than a year building the boat, they launched in the summer of 2001.

Helen M is a 12′ wooden boat shop fishermans’ sailing dinghy in clinker/glued lapstrake construction of fiji kauri marine ply with copper & silicon bronze fastenings & hardwood frames.

David and Benji Cantera, father and son, asked their friend, John Swain, a shipwright, to design and help them build a 10′8″ skiff, LEAPIN’ LENA. They covered the hull bottom, transom, and deck in marine plywood sheathed with Dynel cloth. They planked the hull in white cedar on white oak frames.

Bedard Yacht Design F1430 Sit On Top Stitch and Glue.
Taken on a weeklong river trip in Montana.

Wolfram Kunkel built this sloop from his own design in 2018. He used wood left over from the construction of the Geltendorf Bridge in Bavaria.