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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Rockycanoe

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Kev Sheaff

Harbour Pram

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Ron Bauer

Ron Bauer built this model skiff to go with the model of his Bunker & Ellis picnic boat. The scale of the skiff model is 1'' = 1'.

KATEY JANE

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Kenny Cooper

Kenny Cooper built his Glen-L 14 daysailer with oak frames and marine plywood sheathed by 6oz fiberglass cloth and epoxy. He used red gum that had been salvaged by his father for the brighwork, while the sails and rigging were salvaged from a Capri 14.2.

ANNE C

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PAt Cahill

Sea Skiff. Free plans published in 1950's Plans here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HJtuO1-n5adVVPRk5sdWxlUnM/view

Houtje

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Nanette Jockin & Jan Sepp

In 2014 and 2015 Nanette Jockin and Jan Sepp built “Houtje”, a Wabnaki canoe in their summer cottage in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands.

Oar & Paddle

CLC Sassafras 16

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Luke Brunskill

My Chesapeake Light Craft Sassafras 16™ is shown here, in the Delaware Water Gap, on its first launch for an overnight cam

Belize rowboat

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Gardiner MacDermot

Built at our winter home in Belize from local woods: Honduras mahogany for frames, stringers, etc; Spanish cedar for the planks.

Brooks and students aboard the boat in the Japan House pond.

Honryousen

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Douglas Brooks, Dean Raffaelli, and University of Illinois students

Boatbuilder Douglas Brooks led eighteen students at the University of Illinois in building a 21-foot Shinano River boat, a traditional design from Niigata, Japan.

Lola

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Tom Greaves

Construction began in 2002 with a set of plans and a stack of wood and finally finished in 2018. Starting a business, raising three kids, selling a business all got in the way — excuses, excuses, I know. Lola was planked with okoume plywood with mahogany knees, inwales, skeg, and breasthook.

CELERITY

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John Noon and Joe Taylor

John Noon built this 30′6″ Crocker Gull with Joe Taylor at the shop of Gordon (Swifty) Swift in Kensington NH for Carrie Hollingsworth of York ME. Swifty, a legendary boat builder was present for much of the construction but unfortunately passed away in February 2014.