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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NORRPA

Builder Name:

Walter Baron, Old Wharf Dory Co.

NORRPA is a Finnish racing rowboat.

Driftboat

Builder Name:

Steve Pippin

Custom high sided driftboat.

RRB RED

Builder Name:

James Brownlee, David Russell, and David Russell, Jr.

David Russell, David Russell, Jr., and James Brownlee built this modified 16′ Catfish Beachcruiser over the summer of 2007, and launched her in August 2007 in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. The design is by Phil Bolger.

ROWBOAT

Builder Name:

Bob Wallace

This boat was designed and built by Robert Wallace between October 2001 and May 2002. He launched her in May on White Oak Pond in northeastern Pennsylvania. The skiff has a 10' LOA and maximum beam of 39". She is a semi-V hull.

SWEET PEA

Builder Name:

Paul Rowe

Paul Rowe built SWEET PEA from Chris Kulczyki's Sassafras 16 design in his book The Canoe Shop. SWEET PEA is 15'5" long with 36" beam. Paul launched her on Dec 2, 2001 in Stuart, Florida. The hull is glue-and-stitch construction using 6mm Brunzel plywood. The canoe weighs 62 pounds.

WHILE AWAY

Builder Name:

Bill Cavanagh

WHILE AWAY is an 18′ PT Skiff, built by Bill Cavanagh on Cape Cod from a kit supplied by Port Townsend Watercraft. Built in the shop of DMC Boats in Falmouth MA, she is strong, light weight and very fuel efficient.

STINA

Builder Name:

Peter Hecht

Name of Boat "STINA"

Boats length 3,66 mtrs
Beam 1,56 mtrs

Type: Ewerboot, constructed by Shipwright Günter Pehrs/Glückstadt/Germany (passed away 2016)

built by Peter Hecht/Glückstadt/Germany

AYLA

Builder Name:

Robert J. Walters

AYLA is my first attempt at boat building a 12 foot wooden rowboat engineered for an outboard (8hp Tohatsu) and was titled and registered by the Virginia Dept.

RIVER PRINCESS

Builder Name:

Rodney and Jessica Collard

RIVER PRINCESS was launched in June 2004. Builder and owner Rodney Collard writes "This design was drafted on paper from photographs from WoodenBoat magazine. We read up on stitch-and-glue construction.

WHITE WATER CANOE

Builder Name:

Jason Perkins' class at Kingswood High School

Jason Perkins teaches a boatbuilding class at Kingswood High School in Wolfeboro, NH and built this 16' E.M. White-designed White Water canoe with his class.