Build Your Own Lighthouse Tender Peapod

[@reallyhappenings5597]

John Harris, the coolest boat nerd in all the east.

[@charleshof6394]

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.

[@ChesapeakeLightCraftBoats]

Thank you! Much appreciated!

[@dfredriksz]

WOW, that is a really nice dinghy. Greetings and wishing you all fair winds from a sailing nation , the Netherlands / Fryslân

[@Webcrawler45]

Beautiful Design. You guys make some great kits!!! This one should be a big hit! I have no idea how to sail, but if I decide to learn this will without a doubt be the kit I will chose. I have wanted to build a solar powered motor Launch for several years now. I am tempted to use your southwest Dory kit with a few minor modification, but to be honest it is a little smaller than what I am truly looking for. However, the Guider looks like it would be a great Solar powered launch platform to comfortable carry four adults, large lithium battery, solar array and drive unit. I hope to see it in kit form this year. However, congratulations on another boat!!!!

[@Quaker-sn5fr]

Nice to see you looking well John. Great looking boat.

[@ferrangalvezcastaneda4968]

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

[@eog0579]

Lovely looking boat. If I finish building my first boat, I'd like to build this boat!!

[@johnstride9642]

I am so tempted! Fyne Boats in the UK sell the kits. Just the thing fir my estuary.

[@kevinhornbuckle]

I love this design and would love to build one.

[@bosse641]

Lovely little sailboat :o)

[@mheermance]

Add this boat to the growing list of CLC boats I'd like to build, but have no room to store.

[@NFTeve]

I can store it for you!

[@AdjusterTV]

Very nice! So in looking at the webpage for this tender, a sailing kit is separate from the base build?

[@WRPUS471]

See John Gardner's books that show plans for a Matinicus Island Peapod in the second book. A generic peapod for rowing is in the first book

[@papajeff5486]

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

[@ChesapeakeLightCraftBoats]

All things being equal, peapods of this size and weight can handle really ugly conditions. They evolved for fishing and utility work in the cold and rough waters of Maine. If you're a skilled small boat skipper, nothing short of breaking waves is going to stop a buoyant and stable boat like this. In other words, you can go as far out as your skills will permit.

[@con698]

I love this design...

[@michaelwescott8064]

Maybe because it looks a peapod, you know, the garden vegitable. Just a wild guess.

[@jamesduncan4920]

Are they across in the uk yet? Looks stunning, would really like to make one that’s for sure?

[@johnstride9642]

I know it’s 2 years later but Fyne Boats in Cumbria sell the kits! I’m very tempted.

[@obidamnkenobi]

beautiful as always!

[@artregeous]

Beautiful

[@johnmhuberty71]

I was under the, perhaps incorrect, impression that to be a yawl the mizzen mast had to be aft of the rudder stock, which if true would render the two masted version a ketch rig, no?

[@ChesapeakeLightCraftBoats]

A more useful distinction between a ketch and a yawl is how much of the total propulsion is provided by the mizzen. More than 25% or 30% or so, it's a ketch. Less than that, it's a yawl. Another good distinction for small boats is the seating position of the helmsman: forward of the mizzen mast, it's a yawl. Aft of the mizzen mast, it's a ketch.

[@asicengineer]

Well shiver me timbers, now I'm gonna have to look up what a mizzen mast is to know whether it is a ketch or yawl. Or I can just look at the pretty pictures. All this salty talk makes me hungry anyway.

[@Pocketfarmer1]

Ketch . It’s about leverage of the masts and rudder against pivot point of the hull.

[@marcelomacedo5179]

Seens to be very Nice and fast!!!!!!!

[@caleb_güero]

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?

[@ChesapeakeLightCraftBoats]

No special storage needs. Turn it upside down on sawhorses.

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Gotta add a 50lb +cast iron plate to the bottom of your centerboard and reinforce accordingly if you really wanna enjoy

[@aciddream2866]

Oh come on guys now I want to build a boat. But I can't lol

[@asicengineer]

But you can. I did. Takes time and diligence, but not huge amounts of skill.

[@56flatfish]

a 16 footer would be perfect but hey, I'm not in the kit business

[@GreggCarlson]

Nice!

[@CaptainRon1949]

Do you intend to offer this as a build in one of your classes?

[@ChesapeakeLightCraftBoats]

Alas, no. It's too big a project for the one-week class format. The classes get you through about 45 hours of construction, which is enough to complete major assembly of smaller, simpler boats like the Skerry and many of our other smallcraft. The Peapod's parts-count is just too high to be a good fit with the 5-1/2-day classes.

[@macfarlanenz1]

I had a skerry. These look way quicker?

[@ChesapeakeLightCraftBoats]

Probably pretty closely matched. The Skerry is a lot lighter, but the Peapod has more sail area.