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These are full plans. For Study Plans, click HERE For those who design boats for amateur boat builders, the small cruise trimaran represents a complex and stimulating theme. The challenge is to simplify its design and facilitate the construction of a...

The classical hull shape of the old wooden runabouts of the 70's go perfectly well with the use of marine plywood and this allows the SILVER to be constructed with a similar method to the stitch and glue one. The SILVER boats are not "instant boats" and...

Lenght 5.04mDesigner: Paolo LodigianiChine hull, Stitch & Glue constructionBuilding Skills: amateurlength OA 5.04mdeck beam 1.90mdisplacement 135kgPLANS9 sheets A3Building instructionsand material listhull V BOTTOMONE CHINEskills requested NO...

Lenght 7.50m Designer: Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo Costa Chine hull, plywood construction Building Skills: expert A 7.50 m length is, for a small cabin cruiser, a dimension which offers a great advantage and a few inconveniences. The advantage is...

Lenght 4.0mDesigner: Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo CostaRound hull, strip-planking constructionBuilding Skills: AverageFour meters seems the minimum size for a "gozzo", the traditional Italian small fishing boat. This dimension allows to maintain all the...

Length 6.50mDesigner: Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo CostaChine hull, plywood constructionBuilding Skills: mediumMinitransat Class The Mini Transat Class was born from a somewhat crazy idea of organizing a solitary Transatlantic regatta on board a small...

The PALOMA, in its various versions, derives from a fruitful collaboration with our clients and, perhaps, also for this reason, it seems to have met the favour of the public. It all started from the request of a client who wanted an inboard motor boat,...

Four stitch and glue day sailers Let us now consider these four Ten-footers which have a common (stitch and glue) method of construction and a chine hull. It is perhaps necessary to explain why there are four projects on this theme. Firstly, the...

The length of the American Whitehall of the 19th century was between 13' and 23'. The 16' was the most typical length and the boats were built for 2 or 3 rowers. As with the THALAS 13', also in this case the classical boat has been re-elaborated to make...

Length 5.2mDesigner: Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo CostaRound hull, strip-planking constructionBuilding Skills: medium This small "gozzo" is the most traditional among the three: built as an open boat and without competitive goals in mind, it represents the...

Lenght 7.31m Designer: Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo Costa Round hull, Strip-Planking construction Building Skills: medium For study plans click HERE LOA: 7.313 mbeam: 1.938 mDisp: 1300 kgsail area:Mainsail 18.00 m2jib 9.00 m2 . Hull ROUNDrigs: Marconi...

Length 3.35mDesigner: Paolo LodigianiChine hull, Stitch & Glue constructionBuilding Skills: Amateur The origins of the Moth class go as far back as 1930 and the basic idea - very similar to the Ten footer, was to allow with very small boats freedom...