18' Cross Channel Rowing Skiff

The 18' Cross Channel Rowing Skiff is based on our Kari 2 double ended Faering. The Kari 2 has excellent sea keeping qualities but does not have the displacement/carrying capacity to take a crew of 6 (4 rowers (2 on the centre thwart) and one forward and aft, plus a cox and passenger). So the lines were modified to give more displacement volume by adding more beam, hull depth and increasing the number of planks per side from 3 to 5.

Construction was to be kept simple so the plans give the plank shapes and details for stitch & tape construction - this can be purely based on epoxy fillets plus glass tape with no jig or, the planks can be laid over a building jig with/without a solid stem/stern post and hog. The same building jig can be used by those wanting to build using the clinker-ply method.

The thwarts are mounted on fore and aft stretchers so they can be repositioned. Details are given for the rudder and oars.