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The dories I built for Bowdoin piqued my interest in small open boats. Coincidentally, I happened upon the link for Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC) in the MSW sponsor list last year. (They were on the list as recently as December but are not there now.) CLC's primary business is designing and selling kits for, you guessed it, light craft consisting of pre-cut plywood, many of which are built using a stitch-and glue process. A few years ago, they started making 1:8 scale kits of a few of their popular boats, starting with this dory. The kits contain the same components and are built using the same process as their full-scale equivalents. The process differs from traditional practice in that it does not require a strongback and mold frames; instead, the strakes are stitched together at their edges using thin copper wire, then glued (or epoxied, for the full-scale boats). It looked interesting so I decided to give it a try. The CLC site links to construction videos for each of the models they sell. The Northeaster video is 90 (!) minutes long, with a lot of unnecessary repetition; the others are only 30 minutes and provide the same amount of information. The hull construction is similar for each of the three kits currently available. There isn't a lot of emphasis on rigging or fittings in this kit; this leaves a lot of room for additional detailing. The CLC site has many photos of completed dories (model and full-size) built in-house and by customers to provide inspiration for these details and for paint and woodwork embellishment schemes. CLC states that the kit can be built in about 10 hours, but that is for a pretty bare-bones effort - I'm sure I'll spend more time than that, possibly just on sanding.
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