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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MISCHIEF

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Jesse Lowell

Designed by Jesse Lowell (207-504-3311), sixth generation boat builder and designer (great grandson of William Frost). Mischief was built by Jesse Lowell and owner, Captain Joanna Lavan.

FINNISHED

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Ed Lungren

Ed Lungren writes "With a nod to my forbears and amazement at final completion, FINNISHED swam September, 2002, in Lake Gogabic's healing waters. The Catspaw dinghy is carvel planked with local northern white cedar on white oak stem, keel, and frames.

Global Explorer

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Community Boating Center, Inc.

Community Boating Center, Inc in New Bedford, Massachusetts has built 3 Bevins skiffs over...

MARY and SUSAN

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Students in CBMM’s Rising Tide After-School Boatbuilding Program, under the direction of CBMM Staff and Volunteers

Both are loosely based off of Smith Island outboard skiffs. MARY has a traditional style transom, and SUSAN has a tumblehome style transom. Traditional style construction, Cross planked bottom. Yellow Pine.

PRUDENCE

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Rebuilt by Kevin and Manasseh Durkin

Here is our Prudence restored. She was built in 1947 in Maine and we found her in need of a total restoration in Marblehead. She was a lot of fun for our young boatbuilders. We also got a list of all the previous owners and contacted them. They thought she was long gone.

SARA B

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Doug Burns

Doug Burns built this Shearwater 17 from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit. The honey colored hull is Okoume plywood, the dark red deck Sapele. She has an LOA of 17′ and a beam of 22″. Designed by Eric Shade, she weighs about 45lbs.

Bevin's Skiff

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GreenFleet After-school Boatbuilding Program

Six youths in GreenFleet’s after-school boatbuilding program launched two Bevin’s skiffs in April 2011. They modified them from the original Joe Youcha design by raising the freeboard 1″. The boats will be used in GreenFleet’s summer environmental education and stewardship program.

LOTTE

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Lake Union Drydock

LOTTE was built in 1928 by Lake Union Drydock in Seattle. She was moved to Vermont in 2008 and has undergone substantial renovation including cold molding the hull from waterline to keel and is now repowered with a BMW marine diesel.

MTN

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Chris Craft/ Joest Boats, Inc.

This project was envisioned years before it arrived at Joest Boats. As a six year old boy, during his first ride aboard a vessel just like her, the dream began.