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 Posted on February 23rd,2013Chesapeake Light Craft’s John Harris had a great blog post a bit back on two faering designs he developed. The post gives a good overview of these lovely Scandinavian working boats,but the thrust of the piece is that John designed his own faering for stitch-and-glue construction. At the moment,plans to make a [...]  Posted on May 2nd,2012John Harris of Chesapeake Light Craft recently published a nice piece,“Lug Nuts,”on the virtues and characteristics of the lug rig. I’d recommend it for anyone picking a sail for a small boat (or selecting a boat to acquire. Category:Boatbuilding,Small Sail Craft |  Tags:chesapeake light craft,john harris,lug rig |  Leave a comment |  Trackback this Post Posted on October 3rd,2011Toward the end of the day Saturday,I happened to be on hand when John Harris,father of Chesapeake Light Craft,took a spin in one of the two cocktail class racers that were about. For those who don’t know,these boats are 8′plywood outboard boats that barely hold a single man. They go [...] Posted on February 25th,2011As a father of a child afflicted with autism and as a avid supporter of boatbuilding and boat adventures I was in love with news in Chesapeake Light Craft’s e-newsletter today of a great new voyage. Neil Calore is a Philadelphia firefighter who built a CLC Northeaster Dory as part of a CLC class last [...] Posted on December 6th,2010A quick note with two well-deserved congratulations to two friends of Chine bLog. The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is sporting a great new design for its main web site. I’d encourage folks to drop by and check it out. It is more attractive than its predecessor,better showcases the museum’s assets and activities (dawdle on [...] Posted on October 4th,2008I just test-drove three Chesapeake Light Craft boats:a Wood Duck 12 Hybrid kayak,a Chester Yawl pulling boat,and an Annapolis Wherry. You may recall I have written about them before. I really like what they are doing. The Wood Duck is a pretty little kayak (the hybrid refers to it being part [...] Posted on September 8th,2007And then,after a final push,in the gathering twilight,the Peace Canoe had a bottom. And that,gentle readers,means she is structurally complete. Houston,we have a boat! Just a whole lotta planning and sanding,plus a mother lode of plastic wood,and we will be cracking open a paint can or [...] Posted on August 31st,2007At long last,I believe I have the sheer clamps replaced in a working manner. Man,oh man,was that an mistake that added time to the project! Just getting the broken ones off took several nights of careful digging for the nails with a tack-puller and cutting the goop with a utility knife. Exhausting [...] Posted on August 5th,2007At the beginning of Howard Chapelle’s seminal tome Boatbuilding,there is a 4-page introduction in which Chapelle goes through the entire building process at a 10,000′level. After talking through getting out molds,cutting the rabbet,and installing deck beams,Chapelle devotes the final paragraph to a subject that one must assume is of equal [...] Posted on July 12th,2007Voila,the seats are ready. I have been working on them at night or during glue cures,and they have come along well. Here is the middle one. The plans specify cut-outs on the ends of the seats;I added my own flavor of these cut-outs. I have also installed both chine logs,and [...] | ||
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