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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. (All posts are subject to approval and editing before being made live.)
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Cradle Dinghy
Wally Raithel built this 6′ lapstrake cradle dinghy for his twin grandchildren. The non-identical twins, William and Sophia, take turns skippering and keeping watch below.
BOANN
In June 2011, Richard Van Voris, the boatman for the Tabor Academy crew in Marion, Massachusetts, launched a 27′ x12″ single scull designed by Graeme King. Richard built the hull from 1/8″ red cedar strips , reinforced with carbon fiber, and covered with epoxy.
Baby Tender Arundel
She is named “Arundel” after her birthplace. My brother and I started work on her hull as a side project while attending the Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design in Arundel, Maine even although her completion and launch would take place in Arizona.
FLAT-BOTTOMED SKIFF
Jim Maas designed and built this 17'6" flat-bottomed skiff. Launched in the summer of 2001, it is the fourth boat he has built. He boats mostly in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River, but spent some of the summer at Lake Newboro, Ontario, where he says that wooden guide boats are not uncommon.
MTN
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.
NELL
Bill Burgess built NELL to sail on Hoods Pond in Topsfield, Massachusetts and the waters of Kittery Point, Maine. Launched in September 2000, she is strip-built with 1/4" northern white cedar cove and bead strips, and covered with fiberglassed epoxy.
MOLLY
David Blake built MOLLY, a 16′ x 6′ Stevenson Weekender sloop from okoume plywood and mahogany, then covered the hull with fiberglass and epoxy. He made the mast from Sitka spruce and the boom and gaff from Douglas-fir.
BESAME
Originally launched June 25, 2005, this Cosine Wherry needed a refresh. The sliding seat was removed and a more traditional interior was installed this summer. Two cedar strip buoyancy tanks were added, along with many coats of varnish and new oars from Barkley Sound Oar & Paddle.
ANN ELIZABETH
Tom Crucitti works for Arey's Pond Boat Yard where he restored this 22' Great South Bay Cat, ANN ELIZABETH. He replaced five planks, three frames, and the entire deck. ANN ELIZABETH was relaunched on August 10th 2002. Contact Arey's Pond at Box 222, South Orleans, MA 02662.
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1985 Classic Gaff Rigged Schooner Wilhelm H. Starck
Classic Gaff Rigged Schooner Wilhelm H. Starck for sale. McKie W. Roth Jr design. Launched 1985.