Launchings

Jenny is a 17LT from CLC Boats designed by Nick Schade built by Andy Welsh.

This dory style sailboat was built in a small wood shop in my yard. It took ten months to build and would never have happened had it not been for the folks at Chesapeake Light Craft and their assistance.

Winnie is an Alcort Standard Sailfish built in the 1950s in Waterbury, CT. She came to us mid restoration from New York, we painted her and put her back together. She will sail in a whisper of a breeze and keeps you on your toes when the breeze picks up.

I have had these Bolger plans for Diablo for 15 yrs. Originally I wanted to build it at the vocational high school where I was principal but that never happened. Then I wanted to build it in Biloxi, Ms while I was working there in 2009-20010.

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

Asher Molyneaux built this kayak as a homeschooling project in winter/spring 2014. The frame is made of spruce, cedar and ash. The skin is ballistic nylon coated with two part urethane coating. The paddle is poplar.

Bruce Lemon designed this 17' Aleutian Baidarka skin-on-frame kayak, built by Charles Hall of Salt Lake City, UT. He made the frames from bent oak lashed to Douglas fir stringers. The skin is a synthetic canvas sewn together on top and around the canvas coaming. He used no glue or screws.

Gerrard O’Leary of Tenambit, New South Wales, sent us news of the launch of his Stevenson Vacationer, OKAHU.

The boat is powered with a 40 HP Mariner motor. All wood was purchased from a home improvement store and covered with epoxy and fiberglass. The design is from Jeff Spira and the model name is the Kachemak.

Serge Larocque launched his Penobscot 14 earlier this year in July after spending 18 months building it. He chose a lug rig for its ease of use with no standing rigging to deal with. Serge reports that it’s a fun and responsive boat.