Sassafras 16 Canoe

Posted by Grace Ombry on 23 April 2010 | 5 Comments

The Sassafras 16 is a great family canoe from Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC). Its bow and stern are symetrical, and her slightly rounded hull is faster and more responsive than typical plastic or fiberglass canoes. Her hull is 6mm okoume protected with fiberglass, and her bow and stern offer watertight flotation compartments. This build-it-yourself kit includes ash-caned seats, sapele decks, mahogany outwales and an ash thwart. Her 450-pound payload can comfortably accomodate a family of four, and she weighs just 65 pounds.

CLC developed a building method called LapStitch™ that makes this lapstrake canoe buildable even by someone with no previous woodworking experience. There's no strongback, mold, frames or steam bending. Building this beauty is a simple matter of gluing the pre-cut parts together.

Up to 10 lucky families can sign up to build a  Sassafras 16 at the WoodenBoat Show in Mystic, CT, June 25-27, 2010. WEST SYSTEM is joining forces with CLC as part of the WoodenBoat Show's Family Build Weekend event.  To make it even easier to build, we'l have a lot of Six10 Thickened Epoxy Adhesive on hand. The boat kit, which is regularly $999, will be available at a very special discount price of just $600 for families participating in the event. Not only is CLC offering a generous discount, WEST SYSTEM will provide all of the epoxy and fiberglass for the build at no extra charge to participating families.

To sign up, visit this link at CLC's web site.  Update! Within a few days of this post, 10 families signed up to build these great boats. You can still visit the link if you'd like a place on a fast growing waiting list.

 

 

 

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