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Connecticut Valley School of Woodwo...
Saturday, January 16 at 9:00am
Ertan Eren
Love to join this lovely group and lovely small crafts owners.
Ertan
Richard Kircheis The Michigan setting is great for the classes. What a nice area to visit.
Hal Jaeke I always have other boaters (almost always in plastic boats!) stop me on the water and ask about my CLC boats!
Chesapeake Light Craft: Wooden Boat Kits
This awesome photo of seven of our award-winning Chesapeake 17s comes from Catherine Guay in Quebec. She writes:
"We are a group of scouts from Quebec in Canada and we name ourselves Les Aînés de St-Benoît. We are 8 people from 17 to 26 years old. We decided two years ago to build our own kayaks and to paddle along ...the St-Lawrence River from Les Bergeronnes to Havre-St-Pierre in Quebec.
We built 8 Chesapeake 17 from plans. We paddled for one month and slept around in our tents. We prepared dehydrated food for this whole month. It was a great experience. We saw a lot of whales, sometimes a few meters from the kayak, but never had time to take pictures! It was too stressful and amazing!
On one of the kayak, the epoxy never cured! (Probably because of a bad mix). This poor fellow had to buy himself a kayak a few weeks before leaving. Believe or not, 15 days after the beginning of the trip, we had to rename this kayak "total fracture of the bulkhead" because the two bulkheads ruptured in the heavy waves. None of the Chesapeakes broke. We were quite proud of our boats! We had little repairs to do along the way, but nothing serious."
Thanks for the photos and story, Catherine!Read More
"We are a group of scouts from Quebec in Canada and we name ourselves Les Aînés de St-Benoît. We are 8 people from 17 to 26 years old. We decided two years ago to build our own kayaks and to paddle along ...the St-Lawrence River from Les Bergeronnes to Havre-St-Pierre in Quebec.
We built 8 Chesapeake 17 from plans. We paddled for one month and slept around in our tents. We prepared dehydrated food for this whole month. It was a great experience. We saw a lot of whales, sometimes a few meters from the kayak, but never had time to take pictures! It was too stressful and amazing!
On one of the kayak, the epoxy never cured! (Probably because of a bad mix). This poor fellow had to buy himself a kayak a few weeks before leaving. Believe or not, 15 days after the beginning of the trip, we had to rename this kayak "total fracture of the bulkhead" because the two bulkheads ruptured in the heavy waves. None of the Chesapeakes broke. We were quite proud of our boats! We had little repairs to do along the way, but nothing serious."
Thanks for the photos and story, Catherine!Read More
Chesapeake Light Craft: Wooden Boat Kits Stephen Taylor built this Passagemaker Dinghy from plans in Tasmania!
John C. Harris
Here are the first of the 2010 classes to be scheduled. Many more to come around the US. Hopefully FB will hold the line breaks when I press "Share." More info here: http://www.clcboats.com/boatbuilding_cla
April
19-24 CLC Classroom - Build Your Own Northeaster Dory
May 3-8 CLC Classroom - Buld Your Own Woo...d Duck Kayak
May 10-15
CLC Classroom
- Build Your Own Skerry
June 7-12
WoodenBoat School, Maine -
Buld Your Own Northeaster Dory
August 2-7
WoodenBoat School, Maine
- Build Your Own Wood Duck Kayak
August 2-7
WoodenBoat School, Maine
- Build Your Own Sassafras Canoe
September 13-18
WoodenBoat School, Maine
- Build Your Own Skerry
September 20-25
CLC Classroom
- Lapstrake Boatbuilding
(John Brooks)
September 27-31
CLC Classroom - Build Your Own Chesapeake 17LT
October 18-23
CLC Classroom
- Build Your Own Annapolis WherryRead More
April
19-24 CLC Classroom - Build Your Own Northeaster Dory
May 3-8 CLC Classroom - Buld Your Own Woo...d Duck Kayak
May 10-15
CLC Classroom
- Build Your Own Skerry
June 7-12
WoodenBoat School, Maine -
Buld Your Own Northeaster Dory
August 2-7
WoodenBoat School, Maine
- Build Your Own Wood Duck Kayak
August 2-7
WoodenBoat School, Maine
- Build Your Own Sassafras Canoe
September 13-18
WoodenBoat School, Maine
- Build Your Own Skerry
September 20-25
CLC Classroom
- Lapstrake Boatbuilding
(John Brooks)
September 27-31
CLC Classroom - Build Your Own Chesapeake 17LT
October 18-23
CLC Classroom
- Build Your Own Annapolis WherryRead More
Ryan Neil Lund Great website. Looking forward to the 2010 boatbuilding schedule coming out!
John C. Harris
Nice shout-out from Mad Mariner for our display at the Annapolis Boatshow: http://www.madmariner.com/blogs/boat_sho
David Kopera Great boats
John C. Harris
Dave in Winnipeg is hours from launching his PocketShip: http://pocketshipadventure.blogspot.com/
He built his from scratch, and he's probably the first PocketShip after the prototype to hit the water.
John C. Harris
Third straight week of boatbuilding in the Chesapeake Light Craft classroom, and our last class of 2009. This week, David Fawley leads a fleet of Skerry builders. If you're bored in your cube, imagine yourself here. Sanding.
As always, you can watch live on the ShopCam: http://www.clcboats.com/shopcam/shopcaml
Here's a time lapse of a Skerry class from a few years back: http://www.clcboats.com/images/photos/bo
As always, you can watch live on the ShopCam: http://www.clcboats.com/shopcam/shopcaml
Here's a time lapse of a Skerry class from a few years back: http://www.clcboats.com/images/photos/bo
