Launchings

Kees Bugel first built an 18' cedar pulling boat designed by Ken Bassett. From there, he moved to this more complex Lala design by Joel White. The boat is cold-molded and includes a small Volvo auxiliary engine.

These two boats were built at Boston Family Boat Building by 5th graders from the Boston Public Schools during the 2011/12 school year. We relaunched them on April 10 for the Boston Tea Party Ship Museum. They will use them as work boats to maintain the ships at the museum.

When I retired from Coast Guard active duty in 2007, I made a promise to myself to build a boat. Purchased a pirogue kit and plans from Uncle Johns in 2008.

"This formerly unnamed Smith Island crab skiff had been out of the water for 14 years, had become home to about 80+ carpenter bees, and was almost burned," writes Eddie Boudreaux. During the winter of 2009-2010, Eddie restored her and relaunched in June 2010 as EFFIE-B.

When he was eight years old, Shaw Clifton and and his father, David, built this 8′ flat-bottomed skiff at the Toledo Wooden Boat Show in Toledo, Oregon. They named her COMRADE and rowed her for a while in a local pond, but Shaw’s interests turned elsewhere.

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.

A scaled version of the Guepard. The hull shape is original but the rigging is from Selway Fisher “Surf8”.

16 ft Whitehall rowing skiff
Cedarstrip construction
Builder Barry Biddlecombe
St Leonards,
East Sussex
United Kingdom

The Kara Elizabeth, a CLC Lighthouse Tender Peapod, was launched on Flagstaff Lake, ME on August 1st. This is my first build.