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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Woodie

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Tom Cullison

Chesapeake 17 hybrid kit. Stitch & glue hull, cedar strip deck.

The Harpoon

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Robert Lord

Customized Wee Lassie IIThe canoe was built in 2009. The overall dimensions are of the Wee Lassie scale with the modification made adding 1″ in height to the gunnel. Length 13′4″.The hull is made from Western Red Cedar in continuous strips (not scarf jointed from smaller pieces).

Lillebror

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Nordlandsbåt

17′ Viking Boat “Lillebror”Please go see photos of the newly built 17′ Viking boat Lillebror getting ready for launch, on Facebook “Nordlandsbåt”.

Charlotte

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paul cappiello

Solo canoe built to Thomas Hill’s plans for Charlotte. 4mm mahogany plywood planks with mahogany and hickory trim. Three year garage project working seasonally.Photo taken at Wasatch Lake in Poland, IN 8/2020

MERLIN

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Jim VanNatta

After reading Geoff Kerr’s article about the W17 folding/trailerable trimaran in WoodenBoat Magazine #254 I was immediately interested and went to see and sail one.

SEAHORSE

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István Márkus

Seggerling racing dinghy, mahagony-okume combi marine plywood.
Racing Nr.: HUN-405
https://www.facebook.com/My-Sailing-Logbook-253068374743825/

Bevin's Skiff

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GreenFleet After-school Boatbuilding Program

Six youths in GreenFleet’s after-school boatbuilding program launched two Bevin’s skiffs in April 2011. They modified them from the original Joe Youcha design by raising the freeboard 1″. The boats will be used in GreenFleet’s summer environmental education and stewardship program.

Shiloh

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Doug Crane

Doug Crane spent 10 years building NOKIDO, a Lyle Hess 29.9 cutter, only to be diagnosed with terminal cancer late in the process. Friends and family helped him finish the boat just in time to spend his last summer aboard.

DECISION

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Tom Youngblood

Thanks for the inspiration your magazine has given me to undertake a boat build. I started subscribing one month after your “Getting Started In Boats” section launched, and I have been a faithful reader of every issue since.

MISS DOREEN

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Reed Feuster

Restorer and owner Reed Feuster says this "Duck Boat" sneakbox of the Diamond class was built by David Beaton and Son of West Montoloking, NH approximately 40 years ago. Fleets of these white cedar boats were raced by Bay Head, Mantoloking, and Manasquan River Yacht Clubs on Barnegat Bay.