Launchings

Launched my Chesapeake Light Craft Peeler Skiff. Two and one half year build and loved every minute of it.

Seventeen-year-old Manasseh Durkin built this 19' x 6'5"Sparkman and Stephens designed Lightning KELLY ANN in 2003-2004. Launched in April 2004, it is planked with cypress wood, with bronze fasteners. The deck is made of mahogany, and the spars are longleaf heart pine.

I signed on for the October 2013 CLC/WoodenBoat Skerry class in Annapolis, with my husband, Wes, assisting, had a great week building the Skerry hull under the expert guidance of instructor Geoff Kerr.After a five-month hiatus enforced by lack of winter workspace, I was finally able to complete t

Frank Butler launched this lovely little rowing boat, SISSY, on June 27, 2001. She is constructed of red cedar planking on oak frames.with backbone, wales, and knees out of red oak. The hog, seatrisers, and timbers are of white oak.

This is my first ever build. It’s from a CLC Tandem Annapolis Wherry kit that my wife gave me for Christmas. Long, cold winters in Wisconsin made for an enjoyable way to spend time indoors. The boat was launched last May, when the ice cleared from our local lakes.

Cedar strips canoe of the Gil Gilpatrick 16′ Laker design. Modifications to the design includes ash stem guards and scuppered inner gunwals. Hull materials include Western Red Cedar, Eastern White Cedar, and Alaskan Pine accent strips. Stems, gunwals, seats and yoke are ash.

Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, offers a one-semester "Practical Ship and Boat Design" course that "aims to get students comfortable with lines drawings by lofting a sailing model full scale," writes instructor David Bill.

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

Relaunched: Phil Bolger designed Gloucester Light Dory built in 1987 by David Bush guided by ‘Dynamite’ Payson (4 x 16 marine ply, bronze ring-shank nails into red oak chine logs & glass /epoxy).