Tagged: Boatbuilding
Building Shearwater Sea Kayaks at Chesapeake Light Craft: Stitch and Glue Boatbuilding
| May 24, 2010 | 6:44 am | Build Your Own Boat | No comments

Over the last 15 years, CLC boatbuilding classes have launched 900 boats and introduced more than a thousand students to the joys of boatbuilding. CLC has been hosting and teaching build-your-own-boat classes since 1994. Our talented professional instructors will help you assemble your own boat from start to finish. Most classes are 5-1/2 days—a perfect one-week vacation, with your own boat to take home, ready for finish work. View CLC’s current class schedule at www.clcboats.com One of the most popular kayaks CLC has ever offered, the Shearwater is an elegant, performance-oriented touring kayak. The “tumble home” sheer panel reduces windage and improves paddle clearance. The Shearwater features CLC’s trademark cambered deck. The West Greenland style hard-chined hull has naturally easy and controllable handling for the skilled paddler and comfortable stability for the newer paddlers. The hull shape ensures good tracking even in windy and rough conditions. The deck is cut from “Sapele” mahogany plywood for extra good looks and natural contrast with the Okoume hull and sheer panel. The clean lines of the Shearwater make it one of the “sexiest” kayaks on the market. Learn more about CLC’s Shearwater Kayaks here: www.clcboats.com
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Building Annapolis Wherries at Chesapeake Light Craft: Stitch and Glue Boatbuilding
| May 24, 2010 | 3:46 am | Build Your Own Boat | 3 Comments

Over the last 15 years, CLC boatbuilding classes have launched 900 boats and introduced more than a thousand students to the joys of boatbuilding. CLC has been hosting and teaching build-your-own-boat classes since 1994. Our talented professional instructors will help you assemble your own boat from start to finish. Most classes are 5-1/2 days—a perfect one-week vacation, with your own boat to take home, ready for finish work. View CLC’s current class schedule at www.clcboats.com The Annapolis Wherry is modeled after the graceful 19th century livery boats used on the River Thames. She is, however, lighter and slimmer, combining breathtaking grace with thoroughbred performance under oars. Solid stability, sea-kindly lines, a buoyant bow, and ample flare make the Wherry a natural choice for rowing in choppy water. While fixed seats are standard, the Annapolis Wherry is primarily a sliding-seat boat. With the Piantedosi Row Wing installed, cruising speeds easily reach 5 to 7 knots. The Annapolis Wherry may be unsurpassed as a rowing trainer, exercise boat, long-distance cruiser, or open-water racer. The Annapolis Wherry is made of 6mm okoume plywood with 9mm okoume plywood frames, thwarts and flotation tanks. Outwales, breasthook and quarter knees are solid mahogany. The boat is built using the LapStitchTM construction technique. Traditional lapstrake boatbuilding employs molds over which planks are nailed or riveted together. By using precision-rabbeted, computer-cut
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Now assembled Matt launches his boat at Dubai International Marine Club

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Building Wood Duck Kayaks at Chesapeake Light Craft: Stitch and Glue Boatbuilding
| May 21, 2010 | 3:36 pm | Build Your Own Boat | 25 Comments

Over the last 15 years, CLC boatbuilding classes have launched 900 boats and introduced more than a thousand students to the joys of boatbuilding. CLC has been hosting and teaching build-your-own-boat classes since 1994. Our talented professional instructors will help you assemble your own boat from start to finish. Most classes are 5-1/2 days—a perfect one-week vacation, with your own boat to take home, ready for finish work. View CLC’s current class schedule at www.clcboats.com The Wood Ducks are beautiful little kayaks designed for just about everyone to enjoy on the water. With big cockpits and ample stability, the emphasis is on comfort. But these boats really paddle well! Speed is excellent: you can really cover the miles in a day, while tracking is solid in stiff crosswinds. The Wood Duck page is here: www.clcboats.com
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STOP PRESS we are doing this again in 2010, send us your paper boats for WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY 17 02 10. and Exhibition of Paperboats at The Three Harbours Arts festival 2008. Venue 1 www.communiversity.org.uk We are asking people around the world to produce paper boats with a message in it, saying how they would create a better world for WCAD. We completed a project last year at Three Harbours festival where we involved 1000 children. They just loved making paper boats. It is a VERY SIMPLE, QUICK AND CHEAP idea. Create the paperboats for WCAD, create your own sculpture, photo it, make a movie of it for WCAD. We would then love you to send these boats for our festival in the first week of June, so we can make a giant sculpture for the opening night, where we will light them up again. Or if anybody is interested in exchanging paperboats. As part of The 3 Harbours Arts festival this year we asked people to make and decorate paper boats. We put 1000 paperboats made by 1000 school children. www.flickr.com www.flickr.com www.3harbours.com
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Building Northeaster Dories at Chesapeake Light Craft: Stitch & Glue Boatbuilding
| May 20, 2010 | 12:48 pm | Build Your Own Boat | 8 Comments

Over the last 15 years, CLC boatbuilding classes have launched 900 boats and introduced more than a thousand students to the joys of boatbuilding. CLC has been hosting and teaching build-your-own-boat classes since 1994. Our talented professional instructors will help you assemble your own boat from start to finish. Most classes are 5-1/2 days—a perfect one-week vacation, with your own boat to take home, ready for finish work. View CLC’s current class schedule at www.clcboats.com The Northeaster uses Chesapeake Light Craft’s patented LapStitch process, in which pre-cut planking is assembled quickly with wire “stitches” and nothing more than a pair of ordinary sawhorses. Hull planking is 6mm okoume; the bottom is 9mm, fiberglassed on both sides and up onto the side planking. Bulkheads are laminated together from layers of 9mm plywood. Epoxied together, the hull is light—only about 100 pounds—and very strong. And with 800 pounds of displacement, this dory offers real versatility. It’s small enough to be rowed by one person, but big enough for tandem rowing with two adults. Like all dories, the Northeaster tracks well, has a long glide, and stays dry in waves. Even four adults have comfortable seating. Learn more about the Dory at www.clcboats.com
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A taster of a DVD programme that shows you how to home build your own boat using the stitch and tape method.
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Building Passagemaker Dinghies at Chesapeake Light Craft: Stitch and Glue Boatbuilding
| May 19, 2010 | 4:21 am | Build Your Own Boat | No comments

Over the last 15 years, CLC boatbuilding classes have launched 900 boats and introduced more than a thousand students to the joys of boatbuilding. CLC has been hosting and teaching build-your-own-boat classes since 1994. Our talented professional instructors will help you assemble your own boat from start to finish. Most classes are 5-1/2 days—a perfect one-week vacation, with your own boat to take home, ready for finish work. View CLC’s current class schedule at www.clcboats.com The Passagemaker Dinghy is easy to build but looks great and performs beautifully. A smooth glide when rowing, spirited performance when sailing, and steady handling with an outboard mark this bestselling entry in our fleet of graceful build-it-yourself boat kits. This is the perfect dinghy for folks with larger boats. Are you tired of moving heavy, traditional dinghies that weigh 200 pounds, or struggling with a limp, awkward inflatable that can’t be rowed or sailed? CLC designer John C. Harris has drawn an elegant, Norwegian-styled pram that weighs only 90lbs, but can survive real abuse in the dinghy park. With a 650-pound payload, the Passagemaker can haul the entire crew in one go, or ferry blocks of ice and jerrycans of drinking water from the quayside to the mothership. The sailing rig components store flat inside the 11’7″ hull; fasten three shrouds and the mainsheet, hoist up the mainsail and jib, and you’ve got a fast, fun, stable sailing dinghy that will please even the most ardent

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