CLC Lake Union Swift
Description
The Lake Union Swift is an 11-foot sloop-rigged sailing dinghy designed by John Harris of Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC) in collaboration with the Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) in Seattle. This vessel represents a unique educational initiative where high school students build the boats entirely by youth for youth, creating what Harris describes as a "pure sailing machine" optimized for sail training and youth programs. The project launched in 2022 with three boats now in service at CWB, constructed using stitch-and-glue plywood construction from specialized CLC ProKits.
Construction Details
| Designer | John C. Harris (Chesapeake Light Craft) |
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| Builder | Home Built |
| Length | 11.000 ft |
| LOA | 11.000 ft |
| LWL | 20.700 ft |
| Beam | 4.330 ft |
| Displacement | 150 lb |
| Max Draft | 2.500 ft |
| Min Draft | 0.500 ft |
The standard boat dimensions
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Disclaimer. Boats are not all the same -- even when produced in the same factory of the same model. Sailrite does its best to publish accurate dimensions, but we often find it worthwhile to have our customers measure their boats carefully before we produce kits for them. You should take the same precautions, especially when the data is not from Sailrite. The information on this site is not guaranteed to be accurate. Sailrite offers this content as a service to our community, but takes no responsibility for the reliability of the data provided.
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