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Why build a boat?Because it’s fun, and because you really can get a better boat if you

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?Most CLC boats use the “stitch-and-glue” method. You begin

with a pile of precisely prefabricated parts—cut on our computer

if you’re working from a kit—and assemble the pieces very quickly

with copper wire stitches and ultra-strong epoxy and fiberglass.

The method has been around for close to 50 years now, and CLC’s

stitch-and-glue boats are at the very highest pitch of refinement.

We also have a broad range of cedar-stripped kayaks. We’ve made

this easier than ever with computer-cut molds, strongbacks and

beautifully machined bead-and-cove cedar strips that we’ll ship

right to your door.

How to pick a projectHere’s something we hear a lot: “Okay, direct me to the boat that’s

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

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.

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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 avail-

able 24 hours a day. With thousands of photos,

FAQs, and the ever-popular Builder’s Forum, our

“virtual showroom” is almost like being here.

Mountains of DetailEven 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

More Kit Options than EverWe’ve got more than 70 boat kits, and every kit is available in more configurations

than we could possibly cram into publications like this catalog. On the web, study the

various kit options, including:

† Wood-only kits

† Plans packages

† Materials lists for scratch-builders

Videos and Other FeaturesVisit clcboats.com for free boatbuilding tips, videos, kayak

selection and comparison tools, kit shipping weights, and

essential bits like our “Window Size Requirements” for

every boat—since a lot of our boats are built in apartments

and other tight spots!

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Above is a Chester Yawl kit—more than a hundred precision-cut parts,everything from oarlocks to epoxy.

Here’s a Wood Duck. The optionalSapele deck is the darker timber on the right. Epoxy, fiberglass, seat, backband, footbraces, and deck riggingare included in all of our kayak kits.

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