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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Sea Midge

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Thomas Hickley

Boatbuilder Douglas Brooks took these photographs of his friend Thomas Hickley, of Cornwall, Vermont, enjoying his new 7′9″ Sea Midge. Thomas built the boat from plans by William D.

MIMI

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G++nther Hencken

G++nther Hencken built this Nutshell Pram to use as a tenter for his 43' yacht OSPREY, and as a sailing dinghy for his three grandchildren. G++nther used mahogany plywood and lumber for construction, cover everything with epoxy, and then varnished it inside and outside the hull.

PROSPECTOR CANOE

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Mike Elliot

Mike Elliott rescued this 35-year-old Chestnut Prospector canoe from a barn and restored it for David and Virginia Moore of Delta, BC, Canada. He used cedar to repair the hull, ash to replace the gunwales, and cherry for the new decks. The seats are hand-woven cane.

BLACK DAMSEL

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Lorenz Rutz

BLACK DAMSEL is a Ken Bassett Firefly design, plans from WoodenBoat. Bassett’s plans call for plywood fastened to stem, keelson and chine logs. I wanted to build this boat stitch and glue to simplify things and hopefully reduce the weight.

'ODENBACH

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Hans van der Zanden, Rik van der Zanden

One-off design
Hull: Plywood 7mm, 8 planks
Deck: Mahogany
Keel: Oak
Maststep: Oak
Spars: Douglas
Bowsprit: Oregon Pine

Sails: Dacron 4 oz, about 12 sq metres

CHRISTINE

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Mark Foote

Yankee Tender per Asa Thompson plans revised by Wooden Boat. Trim and transom modified. First boat made. Rows beautifully and very stable for a small boat.

Sailboats - Daysailers

John Gardner Chamberlain Gunning Dory

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John Gardner

Through connections within The Traditional Small Craft Association, I received word that there was a dory built by John Gardner, looking for a new home just north of my home on the West Coast of Florida.

Periwinkle

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Gavin Watson

A modified Chesapeake Light Craft Guider. I built this boat over the 2021-2022 winter in my garage/shop in Connecticut. I am sailing her out of Pulpit Harbor in Penobscott Bay, Maine.

PAULYNE

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Stephan Scott

Dr, Stephan Scott spent 8 months worth of weekends building PAULYNE, and Harry Bryan Daisy design. PAULYNE is a 12'6" dory/skiff with a beam of 4'2". He launched PAULYNE on May 31, 2003. Stephan plans to use her in Pirates Cove, Alabama and on Arnica Bay located on the ICW.

BAY DAWG

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Tom Wignall

Tom Wignall of Lakeville, MN is seen here sailing his new Arch Davis Sand Dollar design BAY DAWG on Pelican Lake in Breezy Point, MN. BAY DAWG, launched in June 2002, is 11'6" with a 42" beam. He constructed her with mahogany planking on oak and cedar frames, covered with System 3 epoxy.