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We're delighted to welcome PT Watercraft and the PT 11 Nesting Dinghy to Chesapeake Light Craft's stable of sophisticated and capable small boats. The PT 11 is not a new design, having enjoyed a decade of very careful and...
Kits from $3995.00
Rhode Runner - The CLC Runabout
The beautiful 1950s-era runabouts are icons of style in the world of wooden boats. We wanted one for ourselves, so we designed this small runabout to echo the grace of the post-war Lyman and Chris Craft runabouts. 30 years of experience...
Kits from $4998.00
Plans from $199.00
It can be hard to find the right boat if you don’t fit in the middle of the bell curve. If your stats run towards the larger end of the spectrum there are not many choices available for performance sea kayaks. The Petrel Play SGL is...
Kits from $1685.00
Plans from $149.00
Based on his popular microBootlegger tandem kayak, Nick Schade has created the microBootlegger Solo with the elegant look of a 1920s mahogany runabout. It's a roomy boat with a large cockpit, almost what one might call a double paddle canoe...
from $1879.00
Based on Nick Schade's popular microBootlegger tandem kayak design, the microBootlegger Sport was originally designed for an inexperienced, yet fit paddler looking for a kayak he could grow into. Suitable for someone seeking...
from $1969.00
The SCAMP is a fetching little 12-foot beach cruiser designed by John Welsford and Kees Prins and offered in kit form by Small Craft Advisor Magazine. The pram-bowed, lug-rigged sailboat has been built in impressive numbers...
from $129.00
New! From Chesapeake Light Craft:Build-Your-Own Shipping Pallet! At CLC we've built every kind of boat, from half-models to Viking ships. We've cut parts for airplanes, computer desks, surgical face shields, and crash-test dummies.Now we've...
from $599.99
The Non-Nesting Version of the PT 11 Dinghy is here! Dubbed the "Spear" for its arrow-shaped foredeck, this non-nesting version of the phenomenally successful PT 11 has fewer parts, making it a simpler and less expensive boat to build. The...
Kits from $2950.00
Grain Surfboards’ All New Ply-Beam Surfboard Kits are designed to get you in and out of the shop easier and out on the water faster. PlyBeam Kits can be built and shaped in half the time of the HomeGrown Kits, (Just 4 Days!)....
Kits from $1200.00
John C. Harris designed this light but sturdy 15-footer. It’s a “crab skiff,” as they’re known in these parts. We’re calling it the “Peeler” after the Chesapeake slang for a local delicacy,...
Kits from $3785.00
Plans from $229.00
January 2024 Update: On-water testing of the prototype is complete and we're delighted with our Gislinge Boat replica. Our fealty to an authentic hull shape, combined with modern wood-epoxy composite construction, results in a boat that looks,...
from $2.99
This design is modeled on the "peapods" indigenous to Maine. "Peapod" is a somewhat amorphous term for a double-ended rowing-sailing boat, used for inshore lobstering, fishing, and general utility such as tending lighthouses. Thus the design name:...
Kits from $2998.00
Plans from $219.00
The Cocktail Class is a ridiculously nifty 8-foot-long racing boat. Originally known as the "Skua," this 1939 design by Charles MacGregor was published in The Rudder Magazine as an example of what could be done with a novel new material...
Kits from $1699.00
Plans from $139.00
John Guider has covered more than 10,000 miles in open boats, 8000 of them in the original Skerry Raid. In 2019 he returned for a new boat, this time to run in the Race to Alaska. In his honor we named the new design "The Guider." Compared...
Kits from $5075.00
Plans from $269.00
The Noank Pulling Boat is an open-water shell design by Nick Schade. The design has enjoyed a long development; we got to row a version of it as early as 2014. Now it's available as a complete kit, or in the form of full-sized plans for...
from $2639.00
John Harris worked on the Nesting Expedition Dinghy off and on as time allowed and launched the prototype in October 2016. Read the full write-up on this design here. Click here for a 2016 update on sailing impressions of the boat. This tiny...
from $69.00
Here's a beautiful 10-foot dinghy or daysailer that slots between our 7'9" Eastport Pram and the 11'7" Passagemaker Dinghy. The Eastport and Passagemaker are "prams," meaning they have flat transoms at the bow as well as at the stern....
Kits from $2269.00
Plans from $65.00
