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Build Your Own Lapstrake Dinghy
Location: Great Lakes Boat Building School - Cedarville, Michigan
Dates: Monday, July 23, 2018 - Saturday, July 28, 2018
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You may register for this class through Great Lakes Boat Building School. All inquiries not about technical boat details to GLBBS: 906-484-1081 |
Instructor: Eric Seefeld
Tuition & Materials:
- Tuition plus your choice of kit:
- Eastport Pram rowing kit: $2163.00
- Sailing Rig - Lug: $1012.30
- Mast-Step $37.10
- Spacered Inwale Option: $369.94
- PMD Standard rowing kit: $2585.94
- Sailing Rig - Lug: $1372.70
- Sailing Rig - Sloop: $1404.50
- Spacered Inwale Option: $369.94
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The Passagemaker Dinghy is easy to build but looks great and performs beautifully. A smooth glide when rowing, spirited performance when sailing, and steady handling with an outboard mark this bestselling entry in our fleet of graceful build-it-yourself boat kits. There is a take-apart version.
The Eastport Pram is one of the most popular small dinghies in the world, with more than 800 built. The Eastport Pram is a boat that is as easy and satisfying to row and sail as you can expect on such a short waterline. Used as a tender to a larger boat, or kept at a dock, it's a near-perfect small boat. A nesting version is available for ultra-compact storage.
The new Eastport Ultralight Dinghy is CLC's newest offering, weighing in at just 40lbs but capable of carrying a payload of more than 400lbs. Designed as a small yacht tender that can be easily cartopped or carried down the dock, it rows nicely and carries two adults, a small child or two, and the groceries safely.
The CLC Cradle Boat is an exact 50% replica of the Eastport Pram, 47 inches long. The hulls are identical in nearly every way, especially the hull shape, and construction is similar. We've tweaked the interior to better suit the little ones, who won't need a rowing seat and daggerboard trunk just yet.
With the help of the instructor, each student will assemble his or her own dinghy from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit. The hull utilizes CLC's patented LapStitch construction method, in which stitch-and-glue techniques are used to create lapstrake hulls of traditional appearance. First, the hull planks are glued to length using scarf joints. The planks are wired together to create the hull shape, then bulkheads are inserted before the planks are neatly "welded" together with epoxy. The students reinforce the hull with fiberglass cloth and mahogany rails, then add the daggerboard trunk and seats. (The sailing rig is optional, but the class will proceed under the assumption that the boat will be used for both rowing and sailing.) As with all of our courses in which students build their own boat, this will be a busy week, so expect to spend a few evenings in the shop. By noon on Saturday you'll have an assembled hull, ready for sanding and sailing rig.
Skills conveyed in the course include advanced epoxy and fiberglass techniques, basic marine carpentry, and an overview of what will be required to get your boat rigged and sailing. With a completed Passagemaker you can contemplate placid afternoons on the local lake, or a dream cruise on the Maine Island Trail.
Students can build any of these dinghies in class:
Note: Boat kits for classes are specially prepared at CLC and delivered directly to the classroom. These kits include essential supplies and may have certain parts pre-assembled. Because of the particular nature of these kits, discounts and other promotions do not apply.
