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Today I launched my winter 2013 project, a hybrid 17′ Chesapeake kayak by CLC boats. Learned so much building her and she paddles like a dream. The hull is made from mahogany plywood, while the deck is bead & cove cedar strip.
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Today I launched my winter 2013 project, a hybrid 17′ Chesapeake kayak by CLC boats. Learned so much building her and she paddles like a dream. The hull is made from mahogany plywood, while the deck is bead & cove cedar strip.
Kwei U, of Mill Valley, California, had built model boats and airplanes for 50 years before deciding to build a full-sized boat.
Looking for a boat which I might build to incorporate 3 fixed seat rowing stations, I found the Chamberlain Gunning Dory in “Gardner’s Small Boats.” By good fortune I mentioned this to a physician friend only to learn that he had inherited a partially built Gunning Dory from another physician who
CLC Kaholo 12-6 built from plans setup both for distance paddling and surfing. The tail-block is a combination of purple heart and ipe.
This is a boat i just finished from Chesapeake Light Craft. It is the Mill Creek Hybrid, consisting of an okoume hull and cedar strip deck. The launch occurred yesterday at Seed Lake in the North Georgia mountains.
The Covid summer of 2020 was a time of distress and dislocation for many. For New Yorker Lorne Swarthout it was also an opportunity to build a boat in his friend’s garage/workshop in Southwest Harbor, Maine. The project was a Great Auk 14 from Chesapeake Light Craft.
Landlocked in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, we built our Skerry in spare time over four years from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit. The only stitch and glue boat we’ve ever seen is the one we built. Still don’t know if she’s right, but she seems to sail and row just fine.
Susan and Lisa Daiute are enjoying this new Glen-L 14' Power Skiff with their father Steven Daiute. Steven built SU-LI in his garage in 3 weeks during July 2003. They launched her in the Town Cove of Eastham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts in August 2003.
Home built stand up paddle board built by Joe and Andrew Russell.
After seeing the Piccolo in WoodenBoat magazine (Nos. 36 & 37) my brother and I fell in love with it and began construction... 10 years later the boat is complete and launched this past spring although my brother passed away before he could see it completed.
This reproduction 19th/20th Century sprit-rig Core Sound Sailing Skiff was built in 2012, at the
QA17 will be at The Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY’s August 3rd auction with no reser
This was my first retirement project and my first boat build.