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clcboats.com Learn more about us… After you page through this catalog, make your first stop www.clcboats.com. There you’ll find photo galleries for all of the boats, and hundreds of pages of articles, reviews, and boatbuilding tips. Boatbuilders at CLC are on hand six days a week to answer your questions—the website is available 24 hours a day. With thousands of photos, FAQs, and the ever-popular Builder’s Forum, our “virtual showroom” is almost like being here.
Why build a boat?
Mountains of Detail
Because it’s fun, and because you really can get a better boat if you
Even at an in-water show it’s hard to quantify all of the subtle differences between our various high-performance kayaks and smallcraft. On our website, we’ve filled in the details. You’ll find: † Profile Photos † Line Drawings † Performance Gauges
build it yourself. Even if it’s your first time. Chesapeake Light Craft boats use only the most modern methods: ultra-high-grade marine plywood, sheathed on both sides with epoxy and fiberglass. Using this method, your boat will be 40% lighter than the solid fiberglass equivalent. You get the beauty of wood—fiberglass and epoxy are clear—but none of the maintenance of your grandfather’s boats, because the wood is sealed away.
How does this work?
More Kit Options than Ever
Most CLC boats use the “stitch-and-glue” method. You begin
We’ve got more than 70 boat kits, and every kit is available in more configurations
with a pile of precisely prefabricated parts—cut on our computer
than we could possibly cram into publications like this catalog. On the web, study the
if you’re working from a kit—and assemble the pieces very quickly
various kit options, including:
with copper wire stitches and ultra-strong epoxy and fiberglass.
† Wood-only kits
The method has been around for close to 50 years now, and CLC’s
† Plans packages
stitch-and-glue boats are at the very highest pitch of refinement.
† Materials lists for scratch-builders
Above is a Chester Yawl kit—more than a hundred precision-cut parts, everything from oarlocks to epoxy.
We also have a broad range of cedar-stripped kayaks. We’ve made
Videos and Other Features
this easier than ever with computer-cut molds, strongbacks and
Visit clcboats.com for free boatbuilding tips, videos, kayak
beautifully machined bead-and-cove cedar strips that we’ll ship
selection and comparison tools, kit shipping weights, and
right to your door.
essential bits like our “Window Size Requirements” for
How to pick a project
every boat—since a lot of our boats are built in apartments
Here’s something we hear a lot: “Okay, direct me to the boat that’s
and other tight spots!
easiest to build, and I’ll start with that one.” Well, that’s tricky, because all of our boats are easy to build. If you’re in a real hurry, the smaller
Jock Yellott
stitch-and-glue kayaks go a little quicker. A tour de force cedar strip kayak will require many hours and some sharp woodworking tools. But if you’re patient and willing to ask questions, none of the boats in this catalog are beyond the reach of a first-time boatbuilder. We have just three requirements of our boat designers: Great performance, great looks, and ease of construction.
Here’s a Wood Duck. The optional Sapele deck is the darker timber on the right. Epoxy, fiberglass, seat, backband, footbraces, and deck rigging are included in all of our kayak kits.
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