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Does the vang help much? Mine doesn't have one. I also have rigged it with the jib sheets outside of the shrouds, they should be inside? Shrouds seem to be a little slacker than on mine. Dosen't matter, but mine was pictured in your gallery as a dinghy to a Morgan that circumnavigated. An early build I believe. Weird thing about mine, it has finger joints on one side, and scarf joints on the other

Well done sir!

The balanced lug works splendidly on this boat, too. We chose that rig for our take-apart version because of the ease of setting and striking the rig when switching between sailing and rowing. We were very pleasantly surprised to find that she sailed much better than the lug rig's somewhat negative reputation would suggest, including upwind. When that rig is properly understood, the sail well shaped (Doug Fowler's as supplied by CLC are amazing), and set and trimmed to best advantage, ours has proven surprisingly fast in a decent breeze for such a short, beamy, curvy creature. Good looking, too!

Is that a new mast for the Passagemaker? Is that going to be offered by CLC? Would there be plans available? Seems to be a much easier setup. Nice work.

Wow what a great little sailer

Looks like a fun sailboat! 👍

Looks great, very nice. Thanks for sharing.

Nice! Is this boat better at sailing in light, medium, or heavy winds than the Jimmy Skiff II?

Would be interesting to compare it with the Mirror Dinghy :-)

April fools.

Very cool 😊

meget godt

Great video!

Using CNC is cheating.

Truly wonderful

Harkens my inner 6% Swedish Viking dna !!! … shoulda yelled out “Odin” when those other sailboats passed in front of you !!!

Quietest bunch of blokes I’ve ever seen 😂

What a beautiful boat. I hope there's an option for a dragon-head and tail. It just wouldn't be complete without one.

👍👍

20-30kts, downwind, full reach? Brassy ballasts you have there

Can I buy it from you? I live in Estonia

Crazy cool!

OK... but why would I want to build a pallet as art object, and what would I do with it? Is this project for people who already own forklifts?

Have you started producing these kits yet?

This is amazing! I want to build a small one this size

Just came across this. All of you are amazing entrepreneurs, boat designers, builders, and doers. What an amazing discussion. thanks for doing this.

That moves nicely through the water despite the chop.

I'm still paddling the Cape Charles kayak I built over 20 years from CLC plans. Still getting comments about how nice it looks, even though it has imperfections that resulted from my lack of skill. Thanks for all the great work, CLC.

I think perhaps that it is genetically impossible to do this and not have a smile that wraps complete 360 degrees completely around your head. I don't think it can be done...

my dad ,a waterman who worked the Chesapeake bay, built me a 14 ft skiff like that when I was 11 five horse sea king outboard man I was in heaven!

That's my idea of a boat! Seaworthy, row and sail. Can be used to go fishing, camping, picknicking.

THE question........ Would denim fabric be suitable to replace fiberglass...or is it really a bad idea?

sanding is fun gggrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!! 😭😅

Awesome… I’m still trying to get my CLC Dory done, can’t wait. Nice boat !

Tempting. Im working on restoring a tahiti ketch, but wanna build a simple little sailboat to putter around Cape Cod Bay on in the meantime. Would you guys sell the lug rig kit without the mast, since I already have a suitable spar for that purpose?

Far out , man !!! … that’s moving with the sail !!!

I should finish building mine by the end of the month. Thank you for the motivation.

Robust designs, easy to build, lightweighted, good looking ... that's CLC. I enjoy my Dory mainly as rowboat, but she also sails nice :-)

Hello Harris! good navigation, I see you got your ass a little wet.. hahaha

I built a skerry 3 summers ago. I had a great time building it! It's a good sailor in light to moderate wind and rows beautifully.

Good choice of music.

I am sorry, but it needed to be more aligned with the "Downloadable-Printable personal device flotation" (D-P.pdf). This is way too realistic and plausible a self-irony, making the humor too subtle for today's day and age :) You done used a fine-sharpened engraving burin, when a sledgehammer was called for there, mister!

how often does one need to revarnish/touch up year to year if that's the route they choose?

Interesting. One concession to stitch and tape plywood: Symmetrical hull shape in cross section. Traditional Polynesian proas were asymmetrical, flatter on leeward side, rounded on the windward side, producing lift to windward. Thus the traditional shape is actually more hydro-dynamically sophisticated; cut by hand with adze.

Fantastic! I want one, maybe two. Was the camera gyro-stabilized? It caught the dynamics of the scene perfectly - giving the feeling of actually riding in the boat very realistically. A real beauty, a mere 900 years old. Like I said, I want one.

sure is a cutie !!! … wish it were a 20 footer !!!

The next replica should be a Spanish Caravelle. Maybe a replica of Columbus's Nina?

They make a spinnaker for that; then you would really be moving!

Who knew that Vikings invented rockets in the 12th century?

just awesome