Launchings

Mark Esdaile built this dory rocking boat for his granddaughter, Perri, aged 14 months.  PERRIWINKLE is 3′ long by 18″ wide. Mark built her with scrap hoop pine plywood, pine shelving, epoxy, and love.

Relaunching a Nutshell Pram. Now we need to make a mast and sail! She rows great!!

I built this boat from a kit purchased from Chesapeake Light Craft. I have built 4 wood strip boats previously. I built a kayak, a canoe, a row boat and a sail boat. My saying is “never build your last boat”.

Joe Greeley launched POGO, a Footy model designed by Flavio Faloci, in 2015. Since then, she suffered severe damage in an accident in 2017 and spent the last two years “on the hard” undergoing repairs.

I wanted to share with you a couple photographs of my Night Heron kayak (LOA 18′, beam of 20″), designed by Nick Shade of Guillemot Kayaks . The boat took nearly two years of weekends and evenings to complete, with work proceeding at a glacial pace during some periods.

Wood Duck 12 - Built at the WoodenBoat School in August, 2018 and completed in September 2018.

I found the plans in the back of “The Dory Book”, by John Gardner after looking high and low for a boat I thought I could build. This boat fit the bill. Besides requiring only average skills to build, it is also light, pretty, rowable, seaworthy and cheap to operate.

This Passagemaker dinghy, one of Chesapeake Light Craft's designs, was built by Mark R. Allen of Reston, Virginia, for Brian White. Intended for use her as a tender for the White family's trawler, the dinghy will see use in Chesapeake Bay.

Cedric Brannen built this skiff for Rob McCauley over the winter of 2002-2003, using the same molds he used to build two skiffs for Rob's father 30 years ago.

Jim Martin of Ashland, Oregon built this 15' 'Skerry' kit from CLC. Jim named her FROLIC and equipped her with a sprit rig. He launched FROLIC on May 13, 2003 and uses her on the mountain lakes of southern Oregon.