Launchings

This is a picture of a new launching... well a new play boat for the Learning center in Duncan BC.

15′6″ Cottage cruiser. Local red cedar, cherry and white oak. Hand woven cane seats.

Relaunching a Nutshell Pram. Now we need to make a mast and sail! She rows great!!

Norm Hines and Charlie Stolz designed and built this boat to be used for recreational rowing within the coral reefs of Fiji. They used local hard wood and marine plywood with a modified stitch-and-glue technique to build BUSA. It took them just four weeks using only hand tools.

Tom Hardison spent 7-+ years building this 24' yawl, LITTLE WOODY. The hull is from a modified Glen-L plan. He added a bowsprit, keel, and made the hull thicker, using two layers of 1/4" laminated plywood. Everything other than the hull was of the builder's design.

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.

FOUR WHEELS is owned by four Wheelers - Peter, Anne, Katie, and Allison. It is a 1959 Lynman Outboard that had been sitting in a barn for 30 years before Peter rescued it. He took it completely apart, stripped everything, and was able to reuse all of the original pieces except the horn.

My first boat to build (and first woodworking project in 50 years). Built to teach my grandsons sailing on lakes in Georgia and they seem to be taking to it. The CLC kit was straightforward, with just enough challenge to make you know you’re building a boat.

1972 mahogany Van Dusseldorp FD. Spare boat for the Dutch Olympic team (Imhoff / Korver) at the Olympic Games in Kiel, Germany.