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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BONNIE SEA

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Nathan Rome

After seeing Mystic Seaport Museum's ANNIE A.

PAMELA ANNE

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Gary Jurick

PAMELA ANNE is a John L. Hacker 'Flapper' design that was developed back in the 1920's. The plans were originally published in Motorboating magazine about that time.

TALITHA CUMI

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Gloria Burge

Gloria Burge built this 6′6″ Philip Bolger Tortoise design and launched in in August 2012 in Searsport, Maine. She built the boat, glued and screwed, mostly, she says, in the living room of her camper.

AMI JOY

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Carl Frey

AMI JOY is a Jupiter Point design by Nick Schade of Guillemot Kayaks of Connecticut. I modified the 13′-design to include a little spruce brightwork trim and built AMI JOY over the winter and launched her on Memorial Day, May 27, 2013, on the Long Island Sound in Stamford.

DRAGONFLY

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Steven Barkley

This is a Chesapeake Light Craft Petrel SG sea kayak. Construction is stitch and glue, fiberglass over stained Okuome ply. Custom changes to the kit included the soft pad eyes, dragonfly inlay, a carved skeg control housing and turned carrying toggles and paddle bead.

MINNIE THE MOOCHER

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Chris Bell

Chris Bell lives on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, where he enjoys sailing in MINNIE THE MOOCHER, a 14′11″ canoe yawl. MINNIE is a Lillie design by Paul Fisher that is similar to his Ethel canoe yawl design and to boats that Lord Robert Baden-Powell built for the Boy Scouts.

ANNIROC

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Cantiere Alto Adriatico

This design from CYD 4710 for Lorenzato’s family build from Cantiere Alto Adriatico. It’s very innovative in the layout and is the first of a series with this type for the same yard, with two separate cabins: one forward and one aft, with the dinette and living in the middle of the boat.

Door County Maritime Museum Whitehall Launch Party

Door County Maritime Museum Hull #18, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

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Door County Maritime Museum Boat Building Class 2014

Each year the Door County Maritime Museum, www.dcmm.org, hosts a class in wooden boat building. This year’s volunteer class instructors, David Morgan, Bob Schottmuller and Jerry McNamara, chose Newfound Woodworks’ Whitehall pulling boat.

Merry Shelly

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Jim Clasen

With assistance of friends we built 6 rowing shells using Mr. Ron Mueller of Wayland Marine of Bellingham, WA design.The Merry Shelly is an 18ft x 24" 35lb hull stitch and glue kit. The rowing device is a RowWing which was fastened to 4 interior supports.