Build Your Own Lighthouse Tender Peapod
The Lighthouse Tender Peapod is a build-it-yourself boat kit by Chesapeake Light Craft.
More info: https://www.clcboats.com/peapod
The Lighthouse Tender Peapod is 13’5″ long, 52″ wide, and will handle a 650-pound payload. Both single-masted and yawl rigs are available. Advanced features such as inwales, floorboards, and a pivoting centerboard are standard in the base kit ($2700).
We have translated the Maine peapod’s subtlety of shape and character into a design that can be built easily from plywood using stitch-and-glue techniques, without a complicated mold or complex joinery. Designer John C. Harris was inspired by the “Old Sailing Peapod” from Washington County, Maine, detailed in American Small Sailing Craft, Howard Chapelle’s indispensable reference work of traditional designs. The boat in American Small Sailing Craft was built “about 1886” and its hull shape recorded by Chapelle in 1937.
More info: https://www.clcboats.com/peapod
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I had a skerry. These look way quicker?
I've got to get me one of these for fishing considering I live in Maine. Haha. What do you recommend for storage over the winter?
Love this. I hope to get one for a winter project! Mark my words, next summer a CLC boat will be taking me out on the water all season. Haha
Maybe because it looks a peapod, you know, the garden vegitable. Just a wild guess.
Nice to see you looking well John. Great looking boat.
Wonderful little boat. Would like to know how it does on bigger seas, bigger wind. I would like to take it out, just beyond the bay some. Texas
A classic little boat that does a whole lot of work really well. Stabel, caries a lot, looks really cool, moves nicely in a breeze, and a small manageable sail. Can be beached and launched easily. But to top it all off it is gorgeous to look at every time you take it out!
For every boat I have owned and sailed I needed to look at it and love its lines. This is one of those boats.
a 16 footer would be perfect but hey, I'm not in the kit business
John Harris, the coolest boat nerd in all the east.
Gotta add a 50lb +cast iron plate to the bottom of your centerboard and reinforce accordingly if you really wanna enjoy