Launchings

I’ve built 30+ boats as a hobby so I know enough to be dangerous. A few years ago someone decided I needed yet “another” project so they donated a 19402 era Chris Craft (I think) mahogany planked hull.

Bruce Johnson built this Steve Killing designed Endeavour 17 sea kayak in 2002. ANONA is strip-planked with western red cedar, maple, and "Louisville slugger" ash. ANONA is a native American word meaning 'laughing water'.

Jim Force writes that it took him three years to finish the 12' semi-dory he won in the draw at John Karbott's WoodenBoat class in 1999. The lapstrake planking is mahogany marine plywood (okoume bottom and transom are pine; stem and frames are oak.

I built this boat from a kit purchased from Chesapeake Light Craft. I have built 4 wood strip boats previously. I built a kayak, a canoe, a row boat and a sail boat. My saying is “never build your last boat”.

Built from guillemot kayak plans during winter of 2025. Full length 1/4 x 3/4 mahogany bead and cove strips. In order to rip the 16' mahogany boards inside my shop, I cut a "mail slot" in the door opposite the table saw.

BLACKFIN is a Pilgrim Pride 16 center console skiff designed by Paul Bennett of Shoe String Shipyard. Brothers Michael and David Hitt built it at David's home in Annapolis, MD, and launched BLACKFIN in October of 2001. The construction is of epoxy-covered plywood.

Rich Parlee in Ucluelet BC built this power canoe to resemble the Nu Cha Nulth whaling canoes of the Native peoples of West Coast Vancouver Island. She was built “out of my head,” says the builder, out of five-eighth red Cedar strips.

Joe Greeley launched POGO, a Footy model designed by Flavio Faloci, in 2015. Since then, she suffered severe damage in an accident in 2017 and spent the last two years “on the hard” undergoing repairs.

After 15 years of on-again, 0ff-again building, EILEEN was launched on Blue Bill Cove in Rhode Island. Built of cedar strips with an oak keel, she's a 14′ centerboard sloop with a gunter rig, designed by Tony Dias, and built by Jim Lengel of Cedar Cove Cottage.