Building the CLC Jimmy Skiff II

In October 2019, we built five Jimmy Skiff II hulls in Chesapeake Light Craft's classroom in Annapolis, Maryland. Boatbuilding students started Monday morning with the hull panels glued to length. All major construction was complete by Saturday. Here's the whole week in 17 minutes! (Final finish work is done at home by the students.) The Jimmy Skiff is a 13'2" boat intended for sailing, rowing, or a small motor. Read more about the Jimmy Skiff here: www.clcboats.com/shop/boats/w...
On-water video here: • The Jimmy Skiff II By ...

[@crabber9368]

my dad ,a waterman who worked the Chesapeake bay, built me a 14 ft skiff like that when I was 11 five horse sea king outboard man I was in heaven!

[@Reubenhubert]

I'm just in the planning/dreaming stage of boat building.
This is one of the boat plans I'm looking at.
Watching this video is helpful.

[@donaldmeyers8562]

I usually don't care for "construction" videos without narrative or comment but have to admit that I did enjoy watching this one!

[@spritual_enlightenment]

Wow, that was impressive.

[@DFX2KX]

That's impressively fast. looks like a nice kit.

[@Can_Driver]

Come Friday afternoon, are they going to have enough clamps? Yes, all the clamps

[@lennytheleopard]

I know it was a week's work but it seemed like a mere 17 minutes!

[@shilohjim]

That looks like it might be a good jumping off point for the keel boat I emailed about.

[@pakde8002]

Wednesday afternoon is the craziest pulling all the cable ties and sanding. Bet their arms were sore.

[@NA-su3jk]

Awesome work you do, thanks for sharing vids. Apologies for my noob questions: do u think the jimmy skiff can be modified, during build, to a self bailing cockpit? (I want a more novice friendly, more bouyant sailboat of these proportions, same chines, sailplan, hull amenable to rowing or electric motor... an easy singlehander basically with more safety .). Is this a dumb idea? Tx

[@ChesapeakeLightCraftBoats]

It really WOULD be pretty easy to make the Jimmy Skiff's cockpit self-bailing. More so than any other boat in our fleet. The cockpit is perfectly rectangular, so adding a cockpit sole high enough to self-bail would be really straightforward.

[@jacklowe3788]

Great looking skiff- How hard to stretch bit to around 16'?

[@ChesapeakeLightCraftBoats]

That boat exists, at least in motor-powered form: www.clcboats.com/shop/boats/powerboats/peeler-outboard-power-skiff.html

[@bert6806]

Ship shape and Bristol fashion

[@kuday80]

Soory, why is there no keel in that model? Does not it effect the balance of boat?

[@NA-su3jk]

It has a dagger board, off center.