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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SUP

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Vaughan Griffiths

Skin on frame hybrid, ply deck, shape based on Kaholo CLC

CLARK CRAFT PRAM

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Students of Madison Central School

James Ford of the Madison School District in Madison, NY, wrote to announce two launchings by their high school technology class, an 8' pram and a 16' canoe. Clark Craft of Tonawanda, NY, designed the pram, while the canoe is a John Scalzo design.

GRIFF'S LANDING

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Rob Wybierala, Wybierala's Boat Works

Rob Wybierala enjoyed building this San Juan Dory so much; he stopped going to work so he could finish it. Now he owns a small boatbuilding company in Maryland. GRIFF'S LANDING is built of plywood with sawn frames.

JUN BUG

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Marc Ornstein

Marc Ornstein designed and built this boat for interpretive freestyle paddling and often paddles it with the boat heeled all the way to the gunwales. It is a 13' long solo sport canoe weighing 29 pounds.

Chesapeake Light Craft Jimmy Skiff SAILING.

CAP’N JOHN

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Katie Pontius and her father

CAP’N JOHN is a Chesapeake Light Craft Jimmy Skiff modified to take the sailing rig, board and rudder from...

LIZ

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Kees Bugel

Kees Bugel first built an 18' cedar pulling boat designed by Ken Bassett. From there, he moved to this more complex Lala design by Joel White. The boat is cold-molded and includes a small Volvo auxiliary engine.

Ozona Pram

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JF Bedard

We launched the Ozona Pram demo this last May and it debuted at the Cedar Key Small boat Meet 2016

Fabulous & Oxymoron

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Boston Family Boat Building

These two boats were built at Boston Family Boat Building by 5th graders from the Boston Public Schools during the 2011/12 school year. We relaunched them on April 10 for the Boston Tea Party Ship Museum. They will use them as work boats to maintain the ships at the museum.

LEVIATHAN

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Nathan Clough

Doug Clough launched his Platt Monfort designed Nimrod 12 solocanoe in his hometown of Mystic, Connecticut. It is 11′6″ long and 34″ wide.

Baby Tender Arundel

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KC Layton at Delmar Woodworks

She is named “Arundel” after her birthplace. My brother and I started work on her hull as a side project while attending the Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design in Arundel, Maine even although her completion and launch would take place in Arizona.