Launchings

First time build, and looking forward to the next one!

Alyssa Drake and her father, Peter Drake, built this Phil Bolger–designed 8′ Elegant Punt. They launched CHUPI at Mystic Seaport in the fall of 2011. Plans are available from Phil Bolger & Friends, Inc., P.O. Box 1209, Gloucester, MA 01930.

Scotland Island, on Pittwater, a large body of water about 30 miles north of Sydney, Australia, is the home port of this 20' Oxford rowing shell designed by Chesapeake Light Craft.

Bob Sack of Covesville, Virginia, built this Catspaw Dinghy model using plans and an instruction book from the WoodenBoat

Lil Miss Canada is a 12′ 1954 cold moulded plywood Wagemaker Wolverine. Hull number M679 with the original 1954 Johnson 25HP RD - 15 still running well.

Using John Gardner's Dory Book for instruction and inspiration, G++nter Voss built this 16-foot dory for his grandchildren to use, based on Gardner's 18-foot Light Dory. Voss modified the sheer and the top of the transom, and added a centerboard and a small lug rig.

Each year the Door County Maritime Museum, www.dcmm.org, hosts a class in wooden boat building. This year’s volunteer class instructors, David Morgan, Bob Schottmuller and Jerry McNamara, chose Newfound Woodworks’ Whitehall pulling boat.

Eric Blumhagen writes "I built SOLACE with the able assistance of my wife, my idea woman. After a year and a half of work, I launched it on November 12, 2000. It now hangs from our living room ceiling when not being used on Washington lakes.

S/Y ELISE is a custom build boat to fit our customers needs. She is a replica of French boat from Victorian era, design #203 by Paul Gartside Designs. Her hull was build at the Ekami Woodenboat Building School, Hamina, Finland but due to unfortunately issues she was never completed there.

Eric Russell first launched DAMFINO in October 2003 to be used as a touring canoe. He added the sail rig over the winter and relaunched her in April 2004, recycling an old Dyer Dink Sail. Don Meisner is the designer, he began construction in 1999.