Notice Port Townsend Watercraft will not be shipping out anything during the month of April, 2024 This includes sailing rig drop shipments, print books, bumper, Delrin turndogs, and fillet sticks. Dinghy kit sales are through Chesapeake Light Craft and not affected by this notice. Ashlyn, the one who prints the labels and keeps track of ...continue reading Closure for the month of April
Ashlyn & Russell welcome your questions and feedback. Currently tech questions or questions about your kit should first be directed to clcboats.com. If you still need assistance, send us an email with a photo and/or page number as reference. We are in WA State's time zone. Monday through Friday for best response time. We do ...continue reading Russell & Ashlyn Brown
Links to Instructional and Informative pdf pages. ( mostly arranged alphabetically. Also listed are a few blog posts or you can search the blog with keywords or categories) #1 : Dinghies maintenance & troublshooting BALER for the PT 11 & Spear (pdf) Bumper installation (PT 11 & Spear)color .pdf Carbon eyestrap installation (pdf) Cheap Oars ...continue reading PRINTABLES
A bit of snow in Port Townsend and things slow down a lot and, like so many, we too saw some record low temps for this area. For Christmas Eve we are back to wind and rain and all is green again around our house, the Salal and conifers having shed their blanket of white. ...continue reading Winter season update
Leo, of Sampson Boat Co / Tally Ho rebuild project, has featured the PT 11 prominently in one of his excellently produced videos. We are a little floored by the feature and yes, very grateful. He surely would not have made such a great video (we think all of his videos are great) if he ...continue reading Wow! The PT 11 on Tally Ho
Ongoing construction. Thank you for your patience. Our current Builders Community Center page includes helpful information for our PT 11 & SPEAR builders. And fun stuff like hats, bags, notebooks, cards, puzzles, and T-shirts designed by and for PT Watercraft builders, family, and fans. Searching the categories in the right sidebar also leads to blog ...continue reading For Builders & Friends
Christmas Eve is upon us and the end of 2021will follow swiftly. We are so very thankful to all of our customers and friends, many of the former becoming the latter and some of the latter becoming the former too! Thank you all. Chesapeake Light Craft has been shipping PT 11 kits this Fall and ...continue reading Happy Christmas Eve
PT 11 kits will become available this year if all goes as planned. The hiccups include supply chain issues and rising shipping and material costs. We are making forward progress. We have been working with a well established kit company who long mentored our fledgling business and really wants to produce our kits. We will ...continue reading June update on Kit availability progress
Customers launched new boats in 2020 and I am happy to share photos and comments we have received. "Russell & Ashlyn I wanted to let you know that we finally finished our PT11 dinghy. And although we haven’t sailed it yet in warm water, we have tested it out in CO. My wife ...continue reading Customer photos from 2020
Port Townsend Watercraft is not closed! As the signs indicate on our website, we are not able to take orders for kits (PT 11 and PT SPEAR) at this time. We had hoped to have a clear path figured out by now but we are still exploring what production might look like in 2021. By ...continue reading Production on hold – 2020