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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CAPITAL GAINES

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Stephen Gaines

CAPITAL GAINES is a glass over plywood boat constructed with sapele frames, meranti marine plywood, with sapele and cypress accents. It’s powered with a Yamaha 70hp outboard motor.

Louie

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Richard Ennos

My Doug Hylan designed 13′ Beach Pea is the first wooden boat I have built from scratch. She is made from okoume ply, Douglas Fir, with utile mahogany thwarts and knees and Sitka spruce spars.

SCOUT

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Joe Vines

Joe Vines designed and built this small skiff that he calls SCOUT. She is propelled by a small trolling motor or a paddle. Joe launched her in June 2011, and paddles her on Orange Lake and Lake Lochloosa in Citra, Florida.

Miss Amelia

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Mike Moran

Built with both tandem and solo mode.

DUGDAMONA

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Pat Domenguez and Dave Dillon

Wood strip canoe. Seem more details at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=678745992196255&set=a.591910930…

VALENTINAAAH

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Bert van Baar

Stretched version of Caledonian Yawl (with approval of the designer Iain Oughtred stretched by 2'6")

Lucile

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Chip Trebour

I started designing her in June of 2008. I had to put her up each fall to work on Christmas presents among other projects, but launched her this past weekend.

MIMSY

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John Karbott's class at WB school

Jim Force writes that it took him three years to finish the 12' semi-dory he won in the draw at John Karbott's WoodenBoat class in 1999. The lapstrake planking is mahogany marine plywood (okoume bottom and transom are pine; stem and frames are oak.

NEWFOUNDLAND TRAP SKIFF

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Marietta Rowing and Cycling Club

Members of Marietta Boatbuilding Workshop built this Newfoundland Trap Skiff. They plan to sell her as a fundraising project for the Marietta Rowing and Cycling Club of Marietta Ohio. She was built during the summers of 2001 and 2002 with white cedar planking over white oak frames.

PATIENCE

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Richard Malerba

PATIENCE is a cedar strip hybrid 12′ Wood Duck Kayak. She is glassed in and out, and weighs in at 45 lbs. This was my first atempt at strip building. It was labor intensive but highly rewarding.