Launchings

Our own Nutshell Pram, built during 2013, and launched on November 25, 2013 in the waters of the Rio de la Plata, Port of San Isidro, Argentina.

Found this on Vintage Boats and set about building it light and cheap. Total build boat about $300 nz ply and glass cloth with polyester. Ply was not treated and with a heavy scoring got a good bond.Could not believe how well it goes with me at 84 kg with a 5 hp OB.

CLC Annapolis Wherry, initially assembled in CLC-sponsored class, Port Townsend WA, 2012. Finished over summer and fall of 2013, launched January 2014. Stitch and glue construction, fiberglass added only in high-wear areas inside and out.

Martin Houston designed and built this mini-tugboat, JANI J, that he named for his wife, Janice Jeanette. The two of them built her over five years at their home in South Dakota, epoxying plywood onto fir frames, then covered with fiberglass cloth.

MYSTIC was designed and built to be used in the thin waters of Westport MA. She is hard chined, flat bottomed, and has a full keel with an inboard rudder. She was built with local woods and re-purposed hardware. All of her rigging was hand made.

A wooden paddle board built by Matthew Young in Santa Fe NM. Built out of plywood and local ponderosa pine to builders own design. Intended for standup paddling, sit on top kayaking, fishing ,and lounging. Picture is Deva Sign Kalsa on Heron Lake Chama, NM.

This is my Doug Hylan designed Point Comfort 18, built and launched in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It’s glass over marine ply to the designer spec with numerous interior changes including solid inwales, a center console , and exotic hardwood fore deck.

I chose the Spira International Tillamook Pacific City dory design for my first build. Aside from the remarkable feeling of splashing a boat built with your own hands, this boat is a deeply personal accomplishment for me. One of my ancestors, Capt.

Historic Spanish Point is an archaeological site and museum on 30 acres of water front on Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey, Florida. HSP runs a maritime boat building and repair program on the original site of Frank Guptill’s 1890s boat yard.

Rich Vogel purchased this 15' Marsh Cat sailboat in 2003. He named her JASMINE and added seats, lazarette, boom gallows, tabernacle to the hull constructed by Dan Fry in 1996. Rich lives near Boston, Massachusetts, and uses JASMINE on the waters from Boston Harbor to Nantucket Sound.