Launchings

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

Uncle John’s General Store, (www.unclejohns.com), offers easy-to-build Cajun Pirogue kits. Peter Mallory of Amelia Island, Florida, built one of these kits making a 15′6″ model with a 31″ beam.

David Stevens, a Nova Scotia boat builder, took the lines for the schooner BONNY (30'LOA, 8'beam) from a derelict boat in saw in a field on Bush Island. He built her as a work boat for his own use in his declining years.

The eight coats of varnish Jeffrey Fette applied to HONEYPIE II don't seem enough to protect this beautiful strip-built kayak designed by Ted Moores. Jeffrey used alternating strips of ash and merantion the sides and layered ash on the cockpit coamings.

The Borealis 45 “Kia Kaha” is a light weight performance cruising yacht, intended for anything from leisurely coastal sailing, to long distance ocean passages.

Manasek was traditional construction - in old times used by Scouts in Czech republic. It was easy to build — just from three wide boards. It was paddled by double blade paddle.

Joe Walsh of RI has been working on a writen history of a passing tridition. The Quahog skiff was a staple of the waterfront in Rhode Island for many years. Of late they are hard to find.

Stretched version of Caledonian Yawl (with approval of the designer Iain Oughtred stretched by 2'6")

Robert Johnston gave this 17' Redbird canoe that he built to his brother, James Johnston, for James' 50th birthday. Robert used bead-and-cove cedar strips for the hull, then covered them with two coats of epoxy.