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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Divoc-10

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Randy Elde

Night Heron

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Ken Milkie

I started this boat by buying a load of rough cut northern white cedar from a small family run sawmill in Danville Vt.

POMONA

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Nicholas Tonello, Kate Slocum, Leo Boivin

The Lowell Town Class was originally designed in 1932 as a safe children’s training boat. Today they are raced by Town Class Association enthusiasts in MA and RI.The Landing School undertook to build three of these boats in the 2019-2020 school year but only one was completed due to COVID-19.

ELSIE KAYE

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Steve Lansdowne

Glued lapstrake Phoenix III designed by Ross Lillistone. Built over a period of 3 years, with most of this occurring during the 2021 COVID Pandemic.

DUTCHESS

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John M Neels

20′ Riviera. Designed by Glen-L. Cold-molded with mahogany surface planking. 350 Mercruiser direct drive. Built by John M Neels.

Some of the folks involved in the Polk County Community Boatbuilding Project

5×10 Skiffs

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Polk County Community Boatbuilding Group

Community boat building in Polk County, North Carolina, is flourishing, according to Katherine Korth, who is involved with the project. 30 students had signed up by July to build a series of 5×10 skiffs.

CHESTNUT PROSPECTOR CANOE

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Don Sandall

This Chestnut Prospector canoe is a design by Ted Moores of Bear Mountain Boat Shop. Don Sandall of Edmonds, WA, built the boat using cedar strip construction, then fiberglassed the hull inside and out. He then gave the hull 8 coats of UV protecting varnish.

SHIRLEY

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Nick Giles

SHIRLEY is a Redfish Kayaks Spring Run. She has been something of labour of love, having been in progress for 4 plus years. She is built of Western Red Cedar, Paulownia and Hoop Pine, and comes in at about 18Kg or 40lbs.

DULCINEA

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Dreem Boats 1595 Kingsway, Vancouver BC

Relaunched after nearly 30 years. The boat has been refinished, the engine has been thoroughly serviced and a fuel pump added. What a sweet little boat, they just don't build them like this anymore. The hull is molded birch and as sound as new.

JAYLENE KERR

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Rich Gaito

Rich Gaito is seen here sailing JAYLENE KERR off Merchant Island, just south of Stonington, Maine. JAYLENE KERR is a Joel White Shearwater design (16' x 53" beam) that Rich built during the winter of 2001-2002. He used plywood lap construction on laminated frames.