Launchings

Mark and Jane Serrianne love their 1953 Lyman Ideal, SHAWSHANK, that they recently restored and then launched on Chautauqua Lake, New York. SHAWSHANK, 13'2" × 4'8", had dry rot in the bottom, which they removed and repaired.

The boat is a mahogany strip over cherry and walnut frame skiff with maple accents and walnut gunnels. The seats and breasthook are sapelle with maple accents. This was my first build and was built without a plan.

The eight coats of varnish Jeffrey Fette applied to HONEYPIE II don't seem enough to protect this beautiful strip-built kayak designed by Ted Moores. Jeffrey used alternating strips of ash and merantion the sides and layered ash on the cockpit coamings.

After reading Geoff Kerr’s article about the W17 folding/trailerable trimaran in WoodenBoat Magazine #254 I was immediately interested and went to see and sail one.

Frije Frosk is a Francois Vivier Design, type Meaban.I built her in the past three years in my garage.She is strip planked mahogany with Iroko decks, the bulkheads are build according to the egg box principle.A lot of brightwork, all epoxy and 2K UV transparent finishing.Gaff rigged with a small

Peter Baldracchi recently built this 14′ dory skiff in a class at Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts. There’s a storage compartment under the sternsheets and room for gear and a couple of friends. The light grey interior, varnished seats, and dark hull make for a handsome boat.

Rooster Class #750, YANKEE DOODLE, completed July 2021, in Conroe, TX. Launched July 10, 2021 at East Ferry Landing (Narragannsett Bay), Jamestown, R.I.

Launching of my cedar strip planked row boat. It is a 15′ Rangeley lake boat. The plans are from Newfound Woodworks. Made out of eastern cedar, western cedar, black ash and spanish cedar. The oars are made of ash.

The boat is stitch and glue construction from a kit produced by Chesapeake Light Craft. The red pieces were stained prior to construction in order to highlight the “artistic” puzzle joints that designer Nick Schade uses. The build took 59 work days/134.5 hours spread over a five month period.

I built this 18′ Palmer fantail launch to plans I obtained from Mystic Seaport Museum. The original boat was built around 1910 and had a Palmer gas inboard engine. I adapted the plans for modern strip plank construction and used western red cedar for planking, fiberglassed inside and out.