Rowing into an unforgettable sunset, on the Eggemoggin Reach.

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Rowing a small Boat.

3/12/2017 - Dozing below deck at dawn, I enjoyed the peaceful sound of a passing rower on the calm water, outside our hull. “Dip-squeak, swoosh,…. dip-squeak, swoosh,…. dip-squeak, swoosh….” With long pauses between the melodic sets, the pace was leisurely. For the person in the small boat, I could tell the rowing… SEE MORE

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Boating 101: Dinghy Safety and Etiquette

11/8/2021 - By Heather Francis. Is there anything better than relaxing in your favorite anchorage? That is until someone drives their dinghy through the mooring field, throwing up a huge wake and rocking every boat in their path. Although there are no white lines to stay between, there’s still standardized rules regarding… SEE MORE
Port of Valdez, Alaska

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Boaters Answer the Call in Alaska

3/22/2021 - By Daniel Harding Jr. Paws digging into the frozen earth, breath floating skyward in the negative-30-degree air. Musher Leonhard Seppala strains to see through the blizzard and otherworldly landscape ahead of him. The year was 1925, and Seppala had just completed the harrowing final leg of a sled dog relay… SEE MORE
12 Acres of Boats

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Highlights from the 2019 New England Boat Show

2/20/2019 - by Dave Getchell The annual New England Boat Show in Boston has remained a big focus of mariners' midwinter dreams for more than 30 years. How big of a focus, you ask? How about "acres of boats," or more precisely, 12 acres of boats. There's almost every type of boat… SEE MORE
Whitehall Spirit Rowing Boats

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Boats of the Year Spotlight #12

12/27/2018 - TRIED, TRUE, AND A SIGHT TO BEHOLD. What more can one ask for in a boat but proven dependability and comfort, wrapped in a beautiful package? The final three company profiles in Boats of the Year 2018 present those very qualities in small, medium, and large options: lapstrake rowing hulls… SEE MORE
The perfect christening smash

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Hinckley launches its 1000th jetboat

6/21/2016 - By John K. Hanson Jr. Boat launchings and boat christenings are special celebrations that gather the all involved the act of creation: owners, designers, and builders. They also have an eternal and mythic quality — the symbolic transfer of a vessel from land to sea. The June 15, 2016, christening… SEE MORE
Okoume is the African hardwood used in most of CLC's boat kits.

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OkoumeFest: A Boatbuilder Rendezvous on the Chesapeake

4/11/2014 - It’s a springtime tradition: once the water of the Chesapeake Bay is warm enough to welcome small craft boaters, Chesapeake Light Craft, the boat kit experts, stages a two-day celebration of hand-built wooden boats known as OkoumeFest. The event’s name derives from the plantation-grown African hardwood used in thousands of… SEE MORE
The Northeaster Dory is comfortable and stable, with payload room for camp cruising and passengers.

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The Ultimate Vacation: Boatbuilding in Sausalito

3/6/2014 - Some people might think it’s the perfect vacation. Chesapeake Light Craft, the boat kit experts, has a long history of offering aficionados of elegant small wooden boats the opportunity to bring home more than a tan and some photographs from a week away from the office. With the addition of… SEE MORE
Eastport Prams also are offered in a build-your-own class, along with its larger cousin, the Passagemaker Dinghy

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CLC Offers Build-Your-Own-Boat Classes in Port Townsend

3/3/2014 - Chesapeake Light Craft, the boat kit experts, will be running dozens of their popular Build-Your-Own-Boat classes at locations around the country in 2014, including four sponsored by the Wooden Boat Foundation at the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend. Over the last 19 years, CLC boatbuilding classes have launched more… SEE MORE
Four C.W. Hood Yachts off Marblehead. Photo by Billy Black.

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Boat Show Season Begins Early for C.W. Hood Yachts

2/5/2013 - C.W. Hood Yachts will be attending two boat shows during the month of February, one a relatively small show on Cape Cod and the other the New England Boat Show in Boston. The Cape Cod Boatbuilders Show, held at the Resort and Conference Center in Hyannis from Feb. 8-10, is… SEE MORE