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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BYD Ozona X Nesting Pram

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Bob Ross

She needed to be nesting to be taken out of the basement where she was built.

COMMANDER PAPA

Builder Name:

Knowles

Re-launching COMMANDER PAPA after restoration and for the first annual “Rooster Week”, celebrating these sailboats from Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.This Rooster is now owned by Marianne Stern-Smith, granddaughter of the designer.

BARBASHELA

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Captain T. P. Leathers

After an extensive restoration by the Lewis family in Florida, the steamboat tender BARBASHELA returned to the Gulf Coast waters October 17, 2016. She was designed in the late 1870s by Captain T. P. Leathers of the steamboat NATCHEZ, and gifted to MS.

MILL CREEK 13 KAYAKS

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John and Barbara Strattan

John and Barbara Strattan built these kayaks in 2003. They are Mill Creek 13 kayaks, designed by Chris Kulczyki of CLC. They use the pair on the streams and rivers of north central Kentucky.

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.

ESCAPE

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Harvard Kent students

Fifth Graders Launch Handmade BoatFive adventurous 5th graders unveiled the fruits of their labors as they took their maiden voyage in a hand-made boat they helped design and build in the waters off Fan Pier.www.bosto

SPLENDOR

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Mestre Miranda

SPLENDOR is based on the saveiros design (from saveleiro, used on the rivers of Portugal to fish for savel/shad). For Brazilians, saveiros are used not only for fishing but to transport merchandise and passengers.

ARTEMIS on Moore Reservoir, Connecticut River

Motorboats - Inboard / Outboard

Atkin designed skiff, ‘twenty-two feet of simplicity and practicability’.

Builder Name:

Bill Smith, Jr. and Bill Smith, III

ARTEMIS is a John Atkin design, (#772 Wanderer), that my father started building in 1957 and I finished and launched here in VT in 2005. Well, finished is not correct as I am still working on her, and re-fitting her for her 20th anniversary on the water next year.

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Xaadas Tluuwáay

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Gitijang Stormy Hamar

Xaadas Tluuwaay (People’s Canoe) is the result of two years of dedicated work by carver Gitijang Stormy Hamar of Kasaan, Alaska. Crafted from a single piece of western red cedar, the canoe follows the traditional style of the Haida people of the Pacific Northwest.

ERNIE LOU

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David Jarrett

David Jarrett rescued this boat and spent one year restoring it, before launching it in July 2002. It had been in storage for years, and had numerous layers of paint and varnish to be removed. He refinished the hull and replaced the seats and floors.