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Boatbuilding News from Chesapeake Light Craft: Jump to Events
- Storewide Sale This Holiday Weekend!
- Reduced Shipping on Full Price Kits to our Partner Pick-Up Locations in March
- Nick Schade Builds a Kayak for Himself
- Wayne the Boat Guy Built a Boat
- A Marathon Tour of Maritime Museums in Virginia & Southern Maryland
- 30 Years of Community Boatbuilding with Chesapeake Light Craft
- September 30, 2024 Photo Contest Winners
- A Tour of Community Rowing Clubs in the Midwest
- Get a FREE One-Year Membership in TSCA
- CLC Fleet Surplus Sale
- Gig Racing & Building in New England
- 2024 Big Little Boat Festival Recap - Part 2
- 2024 Big Little Boat Festival Recap - Part 1
- Great Reasons to Build Your Own Kaholo Paddleboard
- Photo Contest Winners: March 31st, 2024
- Photo Contest Winners: December 31st, 2023
- Design Spotlight: Petrel Play SG
- Photo Contest Winners: September 2023
- 2023 Calfornia Boatbuilder Rendezvous
- CLC Photo Contest Open for Entries!
- Cool New Teardrop Camper Video
- 2023 Big Little Boat Festival Recap - Part 1
- Strip Kit Update: More Western Red & Alaskan Yellow Cedar!
- CLC Partners with Jackman Works and Arbortech to Build a CLC Teardrop Camper
- Top Tools, and Why You Need Them
- Maplewoodshop Brings Woodworking to Youngsters
- Big Little Boat Festival 2022: The Recap!
- Big Little Boat Festival Race Results
- Take a Video Tour of CLC's Expanded and Remodeled Factory
- 2021 Photo Contest Winners
- CLC's Nicky Stimpson Becomes the First Woman to Paddle the Length of Chesapeake Bay: PART 1
- Schoodic Sea Kayak Retreat 2021: Five Days in Amazing Wooden Kayaks on the Coast of Maine
- Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival 2021 Kicks off with Voyage to the Vineyard
- Voyage to the Vineyard 2021
- Complete Grain Surfboards in Stock
- 2021 Big Little Boat Festival Final Racing Results
- What'SUP with Nicky
- Clemens Wergin Wins Naylor Noggin Award
- 2020 Photo Contest Annual Winners
- 30 Years and Counting: Happy Anniversary to Us!
- Two New Boats for 2021!
- Building to Teach: a Creative Distance Learning Program in Model Boatbuilding
- Product Suggestions
- Great Gift Ideas for Boatbuilders
- Mark Carter Prone-Paddles 25 Miles to Raise Money For Park
- Nicky Shows Off Racing Style on Lake Champlain
- New! Download Plans for CLC's Classic Designs
- Three Generations of Kayakers Building Memories and Heirlooms
- Boatbuilder Spotlight: Jeff Perkins
- Introducing: CLC ProKits
- Now Shipping: The Lighthouse Tender Peapod
- 2019 Photo Contest Annual Winners
- Introducing the Teardrop Integrated Cargo Carrier
- West Coast Tour 2019
- OkoumeFest 2019 Wrap Up Page 2
- OkoumeFest 2019 Wrap Up Page 1
- OkoumeFest 2019 Wrap Up Page 3
- Prototype CLC Runabout Build
- Building The Guider 2.0
- 2018 Photo Contest Annual Winners
- NEW in 2019: Full Plans Sets Available for PDF Download
- Most Popular Right Now!
- Custom Projects at CLC
- Survey: Buying a Finished CLC Teardrop Camper
- Waterlust Builds The CLC Teardrop Camper
- CLC Teardrop Camper Videos
- John Guider Puts Another 1000 Miles on his "Skerry Raid"
- Julia Holmes' Four-Year, 2,500-Mile Adventure
- Waterlust Expedition Canoes Take Shape in CLC Shop, Set Sail South
- Read More in the News Archives . . .
- And Even More on the Life of Boats Blog . . .
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![]() Mar 31, 2025 - Apr 12, 2025 Chesapeake Light Craft, Annapolis, Maryland |
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![]() May 17, 2025 500 Conquest Beach Rd, Centreville, Maryland |
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![]() Jun 21, 2025 Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse, Annapolis, Maryland |
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![]() Jun 27, 2025 - Jun 29, 2025 Mystic, Connecticut |
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![]() Jul 14, 2025 - Jul 26, 2025 Chesapeake Light Craft, Annapolis, Maryland |
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![]() Sep 5, 2025 - Sep 7, 2025 Port Townsend, Washington |
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![]() Oct 4, 2025 Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Maryland |