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Passagemaker Take-Apart · new build

Launched

Serenity - CLC Passagmaker

With so many cruising boats carrying similar gray inflatable dinghies, I wanted something with its own character. S/V Kopelia is our personal home; her tender deserved the same care. Between November 2025 and January 2026, I built Serenity from a Chesapeake Light Craft Passagemaker Take-Apart kit. Her design is practical, too. She separates into two sections so we can stow her on deck during long passages. From the wood finish to her name sweeping across the transom, Serenity is another part of our life afloat made personal by hand.

Make a book Feed The whole log, 22 entries and every photo, laid out as a book to print, bind and keep.
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Nov 2025
Started
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Mounted on the foredeck

The two halves sitting on the foredeck. The smaller forward section fits under the boom between the mast and cockpit. The larger section fits on the foredeck between the mast and bow

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Building the sailing hardware

1 Passagemaker Take-Apart, under construction
2 Passagemaker Take-Apart, under construction
3 Passagemaker Take-Apart, under construction
4 Passagemaker Take-Apart, under construction
5 Passagemaker Take-Apart, under construction
6 Passagemaker Take-Apart, under construction

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