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WoodenBoat Show
Come see us at the WoodenBoat Show in Mystic, CT June 25-27. We'll be at booth 56A in the big tent, and we'll also be helping Family Build Weekend participants construct 8-10 Sassafras 16 canoes with our friends from Chesapeake Light Craft.
We're building a Sassafras
Recently, our blog featured the Chesapeake Light Craft Sassafras 16 canoe. We began building one of our own last week, and came a long way on it in three very short days thanks to CLC's exclusive LapStitch™ construction scheme. CLC's LapStitch is essentially a stitch-and-glue construction method devised especially for lapstrake designs. With these CLC kits you can quickly build a round-bottomed, traditional looking lapstrake boat without a using molds or complex rolling bevels. The result is a stiff, strong, leakproof and beautiful boat.
Sassafras 16 Canoe
The Sassafras 16 is a great family canoe from Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC). Its bow and stern are symetrical, and her slightly rounded hull is faster and more responsive than typical plastic or fiberglass canoes. Her hull is 6mm okoume protected with fiberglass, and her bow and stern offer watertight flotation compartments. This build-it-yourself kit includes ash-caned seats, sapele decks, mahogany outwales and an ash thwart. Her 450-pound payload can comfortably accomodate a family of four, and she weighs just 65 pounds.
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