Chesapeake Light Craft | Boat Plans, Boat Kits, Boatbuilding …
If you want to build a boat, we have what you need. Chesapeake Light Craft is your source for boat kits, kayak kits, boat plans, and boatbuilding materials. Our original, award-winning boat designs include kayaks, canoes, rowing boats, dinghies, and sailboats. More than 40,000 CLC boats have been built from kits and plans. Our designs are built ...
Chesapeake Light Craft | Boat Plans, Boat Kits, Kayak Kits, Canoe …
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Skerry: 15-foot Double-Ender - Fast Rowing and Sailing Dinghy
The Skerry is a plywood-epoxy composite boat, assembled using Chesapeake Light Craft’s exclusive LapStitch™ technique. The sides are 6mm Okoume, while the bottom is 9mm, sheathed with fiberglass for those hard beach landings. The interior includes 9mm okoume frames and sealed air tanks at the bow and stern for buoyancy.
Eastport Ultralight Dinghy Kit by Chesapeake Light Craft - CLC boats
Incorporating 21st-century technology, classical good looks, and boatbuilding techniques we've evolved over two decades, the wood-epoxy Eastport Ultralight is a 38-pound, 6-foot pram with a 400-pound payload. "At middle age, I'm just not as strong as I used to be," says John, "I needed a dinghy capable of holding two adults, a small child, and ...
Sassafras 16: A Lightweight Canoe That You Can Build!
Chesapeake Light Craft first introduced the lapstrake Sassafras canoes in the late 1990’s. Named after a placid and scenic river on the upper Chesapeake, these handsome canoes are at home in rivers, lakes, and bays, able enough to surmount wind chop and powerboat wakes, and to …
Chesapeake Light Craft | Boat Plans, Boat Kits, Boatbuilding …
Sketchbook is a glimpse into the daydreams of Chesapeake Light Craft's stable of boat designers. It's a very lightly curated catalog of our musings and experiments, committed to paper and then, usually...stuffed in drawers. Teambuilding Events Corporate Teambuilding Events; The …
About Chesapeake Light Craft - CLC boats
If you've never built a boat before in your life, Chesapeake Light Craft places at your disposal all of the resources to make it the experience of a lifetime: complete boat kits, marine grade supplies, comprehensive instructional materials, videos, scores of pages of helpful tips, and unlimited tech support. Our 18 employees currently comprise ...
Chesapeake Light Craft Ocean Rowing Wherry - CLC boats
The Expedition Wherry is a multi-chined plywood boat, with a six-panel hull reinforced by six bulkheads. The hull is mostly 4mm okoume plywood, with fiberglass applied both inside and out. The computer-cut kit is intricately designed and highly evolved to suit fast and easy construction, including by first-time builders.
Rowing Craft » Sliding Seat Rowing - CLC boats
Rowing Craft » Sliding Seat Rowing. The Annapolis Wherry offers thoroughbred performance on the water combined with breathtaking grace. The Annapolis Wherry has been turning heads since 1997, with hundreds and hundreds built all over the world. Solid stability, sea kindly lines, excellent tracking, a buoyant bow, and ample flare make the ...
Chesapeake Light Craft » PocketShip: 15-foot Fast-Sailing Pocket ...
Designer John C. Harris has designed, built, owned, and cruised aboard a variety of smallcraft. His first camp-cruiser as a teenager was an 11'6" rowing boat with a tent, in which he explored the upper Chesapeake, sleeping aboard. Twenty years later, he wanted a fast-sailing pocket cruiser with a dry and commodious interior.