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Dayboats

  • 18' Elaine II Open Dayboat

    18' Elaine II Open Dayboat

    Fred Rebell (1886-1968) was a lone sailor and adventurer - he fled from Latvia to Germany to avoid conscription, stowed away on a Sydney-bound ship and after marrying/divorcing and working in Australia, tried to emigrate to the US but was refused a visa...
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  • 23'5" East Cornish Lugger Plans

    23'5" East Cornish Lugger Plans

    This craft takes it's heritage from quite a number of traditional fishing craft used around the South West and French coasts for pilchard and mackerel driving. These boats had quite a number of subtle variations on the lug rig and in this case we have...
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  • 17'3" Kon Bot Puck Plans

    17'3" Kon Bot Puck Plans

    Not much has been written in the West about the traditional working craft of the East European countries but they had some fine craft and this is just one example of them. The KON was one of the smaller types of boat working on the Baltic around the Bay...
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  • Calm Harbor 12 Strip Planked Daysailer Plans

    Calm Harbor 12 Strip Planked Daysailer Plans

    Based on our Safe Harbour design which was based on the Dark Harbor 12 designed by B.B. Crowninshield in the early part of the 20th Century, this design has been made beamier so that she can carry less ballast and use a steel centreplate.   She...
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  • 18'4" Jim Canoe Yawl

    18'4" Jim Canoe Yawl

    Since designing Lillie, we have had several enquiries for new canoe yawl designs. I think that this is partly due to their obvious elegance in shape and function. They are beautiful craft and represent a very personal form of sailing. The journeys of...
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  • 30' Cornish Motor Gig

    30' Cornish Motor Gig

    Based on the traditional Cornish Pilot Gig this updated version has had it's beam increased from the usual 5' (1.525m) to 6'9" (2.05m) to accommodate an inboard diesel engine and a bigger rig. These gigs were used for general service, salvage and...
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  • 18' Bittern Daysailer

    18' Bittern Daysailer

    The Bittern design started life when our client bought an old and rotting daysailer which he intended to restore - however, he realised that starting from scratch would be easier and give him a brand new boat which, with modern strip plank construction,...
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  • 18' Ant Broads Dayboat

    18' Ant Broads Dayboat

    The Ant is similar in size to our Bungay but represents another variation of the type of delightful dayboat found on the Norfolk Broads. She has a simple high peak balanced lug rig - this shape of sail allows the use of stays which in turns means that...
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  • 16'x6' Lightship's Lifeboat Mould Plans Plans

    16'x6' Lightship's Lifeboat Mould Plans Plans

    We have the computer faired mould, inner stem and transom shape for an open boat based upon a 16’ x 6’ Lightship’s Lifeboat—a sturdy little seaboat which could take 12 men and carry a simple lug rig—they were clinker built but could be strip...
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  • Skylark 16 Mk2 Plans

    Skylark 16 Mk2 Plans

    This version of the Skylark class of pram dinghies was at the request of a client who wanted a comfortable river boat with the simplicity of construction of the smaller Skylark stitch and tape dinghies and with the large size that a pram shape of this...
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  • 16' River Lapwing Catboat Plans

    16' River Lapwing Catboat Plans

    This is a curvaceous and neat example of the traditional American catboat. She has been designed to give maximum usability and space in a 16' long package. There is plenty of room for storage and to fit the batteries for an electric drive pod. The...
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  • Highlander 16 Plans

    Highlander 16 Plans

    The Highlander 16' dayboat was designed for a New Zealand client who wanted a rugged camping dinghy/dayboat for use around North Island. She retains the easy riding 'U' shape of the other Highlanders forward but departs from their shape in having a...
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  • 22' Virginian Skiff (Moulds/Jigs only)

    22' Virginian Skiff (Moulds/Jigs only)

    We have the computer generated mould shapes and building jig details (only) for a 22'x7'2" (6.71x2.18m) Yankee Skiff for rowing or motor power. Could be strip planked or completed in clinker ply. These skiffs have a narrow flat bottom plank and a shapely...
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  • 16' Iona Skiff Plans

    16' Iona Skiff Plans

    For those who want to build a classically designed double ended clinker craft, this boat has been developed from the Shetland Skiff and North American Peapod dinghy. Construction is greatly simplified from the conventional clinker method and kept to a...
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  • 18' Hawk Plans

    18' Hawk Plans

    18’x 11’ (hull beam 3’). Ultra simple stitch and tape construction using 10 sheets of 1/4’’ and 4 sheets of 3/8’’ ply. Built-in buoyancy, good storage and sit-in hulls which may, under a canvas canopy be used for sleeping as well as the...
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  • Swift 6M Dayboat Plans

    Swift 6M Dayboat Plans

    The Swift 6 metre dayboat was commissioned by Mr. P. Roberts who wanted an easily built boat similar in line to some of the French dayboats. In fact, she is also similar to boats of the Gareloch and Loch Long classes raced on the Clyde. The drawings...
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  • 17'3" Gdansk Plans

    17'3" Gdansk Plans

    he ‘‘Gdansk’’ is a modified version of the ‘‘Puck’’ Polish fishing boat design for a client who didn’t mind giving up the double ended hull. Her basic particulars are similar to the ‘‘Puck’’ design but she has a transom stern, a...
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  • Highlander 18 Plans

    Highlander 18 Plans

    The Highlander 18 has been developed for the sailor or fisherman wanting a boat that he can use comfortably for estuary and coastal work. Points taken into her design are easy trailability (hence she uses salt water ballast which drains as she is...
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  • Drontheim Yawl (Plank/Frames only) Plans

    Drontheim Yawl (Plank/Frames only) Plans

    21'8" x 6' x 3' (mid-depth) Drontheim Yawl for the Causeway Coast Kayak Assoc. - this is a traditional Irish open yawl and we have been asked to model her on the computer and develop the 9 hull planks for stitch and tape construction plus frame shapes...
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  • 24' New Bedford Whaler Plans

    24' New Bedford Whaler Plans

    The New Bedford Whalers were renowned for their ruggedness and sea-kindly manner. Typically they were 28' or 30' long. I was asked to draw up the lines for a shorter version for a film company and decided to use this design work as the basis of a full...
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  • 20' Strip Planked Kite Plans

    20' Strip Planked Kite Plans

    The Kite was conceived as a fast and seaworthy dayboat capable of taking a family comfortably on extended coastal camping treks or to provide them with some exciting day-sailing in estuary waters. In designing the hull, we have kept in mind a multi-role...
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  • Skylark 16 Motor Version Plans

    Skylark 16 Motor Version Plans

    This version of the Skylark class of pram dinghies was at the request of a client who wanted a comfortable river boat with the simplicity of construction of the smaller Skylark stitch and tape dinghies and with the large size that a pram shape of this...
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  • 16' Islay Skiff Plans

    16' Islay Skiff Plans

    The Islay is a recent development of our Iona design for a client who required a graceful boat with more beam and a little more sheer. He also wanted a traditional cutter rig with a jaunty looking bowsprit. Construction can either be by the strip...
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  • Safe Harbor 12 Strip Planked Daysailer Plans

    Safe Harbor 12 Strip Planked Daysailer Plans

    Based on the Dark Harbor 12 designed by B.B. Crowninshield in the early part of the 20th Century, this design has an updated underwater shape and construction method.   She is very much a mini J class. With a 12' waterline and overall length of over...
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  • Tracker 18 Plans

    Tracker 18 Plans

    This craft which is based upon the Highlander 18, has been developed for a client in Australia specifically for trailing across rough terrain in order to explore out of the way creeks and rivers which would otherwise be difficult to get to. She has room...
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  • 16' Dutch Punter Plans

    16' Dutch Punter Plans

    The traditional Punter is a small Dutch work boat with a simple single chine and flat bottomed hull and an upper strake which is shaped to give tumblehome. Her sprit rig is very practical allowing the sail to be brailed up against the mast when not in...
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  • 16' Petite Brise Plans

    16' Petite Brise Plans

    The 12’4’’ Petite Brise has proven to be very popular and we have had several requests for a longer version, so we have gone for a hull length of 16’ and increased the beam to 5’9’’. Like her smaller sister, we...
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  • 15'1" Port Pegasus Plans

    15'1" Port Pegasus Plans

    The Port Pegasus is a clinker boat which may be used as a pure rowing boat or fitted with a small diesel (ie Farymann 7.5) as a small motor launch with classic appearance.   As a general purpose launch, she could be fitted out in a variety of...
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  • 18'4" Tosher

    18'4" Tosher

    Apparently, "Toshing" was the taking of copper from laid-up warships. We have used the Mevagissey Tosher as the model for this boat. They were renowned for their speed and sea keeping qualities and apart from removing copper they were also used for...
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  • 18' Bungay Broads Dayboat

    18' Bungay Broads Dayboat

    This design is based upon the traditional daysailers and small yachts that can be hired on the Norfolk Broads. Construction is Cedar strip planking over computer faired moulds/jig. The mast is stepped in a tabernacle for easy raising/lowering and she can...
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  • 27' Northumbrian Coble

    27' Northumbrian Coble

    Most East Coast Cobles were of clinker (lapstrake) construction but a few were carvel and the 27’ Northumbrian Coble emulates one of these by using modern strip planked construction. I have not attempted to ‘modernize’ the concept too much and so...
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  • 19'6" Lark Dory

    19'6" Lark Dory

    19’6’’x 5’8’’x 11’’ (min.). May be built in two halves and bolted together as a fishing/motor dory or as a sailing dory with or without the cubby/cabin. Pre-shaped side hull panels are fastened to the...
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  • 16' Casco Bay Canoe Yawl Plans

    16' Casco Bay Canoe Yawl Plans

    The Casco Bay 16 was designed for Maurice Byrne of the Boatyard Upstairs for a Swiss client who wanted a fast, easily handled canoe yawl for use on his home lakes. We have developed an efficient and stable hull form with slight influence from the Casco...
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  • Highlander 19'6" Plans

    Highlander 19'6" Plans

    This boat is a stretched version of the Highlander 18 for a client who wanted the biggest boat that he could comfortably trail extensively behind a medium sized family saloon without a lot of effort and which could also offer enclosed accommodation. The...
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  • 16' Simple Surf Cat Plans

    16' Simple Surf Cat Plans

    16'€™x 7'€™. Very simple construction based upon 7 sheets of ply and easy "V" section hulls with no centreboards. Costs have been kept right down by using wood beams and a simple ply aerofoil section mast. Definitely a sporty fun boat for the beach and...
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  • 15' Medway Doble Plans

    15' Medway Doble Plans

    We were asked by a Portuguese client to stretch our standard Medway Doble to produce an easily rowed craft which could be carried under the bridge deck of a large cruising catamaran and used both as a tender and as a lifeboat. This version has the same...
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  • Frigate's Boat Plans

    Frigate's Boat Plans

    A 23’3” Ship’s Boat for Mr. Ian Bloomfield - this is a strip planked version of a 17th/18th Century Frigate’s Boat - she is modelled on the bluff bowed craft used for general work in the Fleet and will have a carronade with it's...
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  • Kari 2 Faering Plans

    Kari 2 Faering Plans

    We were asked to develop the plank shapes for a replica of a 4 oared Faering from some lines that had been taken off the boat some while back. The client was the husband of the Great Granddaughter of the owner who had the original built in 1892 for the...
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  • 18'7" Snipa Sprit Sailing Fishing Boat

    18'7" Snipa Sprit Sailing Fishing Boat

    Snipa's (pronounced Sneepa) are traditional clinker Nordic Fishing boats with a reputation for excellent sea keeping qualities and stability. Construction is fairly traditional but uses ply for the clinker planking over laminated frames. Below the...
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  • 15' Northumbrian Coble Plans

    15' Northumbrian Coble Plans

    At long last here is a larger addition to our Northumbrian Coble range—at 15’ LOD, she is a big handsome dayboat with space to accommodate the family plus camping gear and stores. The drawings give details for an outboard well and copious...
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  • 16' Pipit Hampton Flattie Plans

    16' Pipit Hampton Flattie Plans

    The Pipit has been modeled on the old Hampton type "Flattie" which has a flat bottom over most of it's length running into a moderate "V" aft towards the transom. The bottom also has a reasonable amount of rocker fore and aft and this combination with...
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  • 16' Fisher Swampscott Plans

    16' Fisher Swampscott Plans

    We have had many requests for a longer version of our Fisher Swampscott 12 dinghy/dory, so here she is. At 16’ we have designed her to be considerably heavier than her smaller sister, although she could, if the builder wishes, be constructed in the...
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  • 17' Chincoteague Skiff Plans

    17' Chincoteague Skiff Plans

    This interesting craft is based upon the 'V' bottomed skiffs which were used on the Atlantic Coast side of the Virginian Eastern shore for tonging and crabbing. These boats were distinctive, with their well flared sides, beamy hull and well raked...
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  • 6M Flushing Clinker Daysailer Plans

    6M Flushing Clinker Daysailer Plans

    This large daysailer may be built in 2 versions - a fixed keel motorboat with either an inboard engine or outboard in a well, or a sailing version with fixed or lifting keel. Construction is for clinker/ply over computer generated moulds which could also...
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  • 18' Cormorant Fast Dayboat

    18' Cormorant Fast Dayboat

    We designed the 16’ Stornoway for Walt Scherf and having built that boat, he asked me to draw up an 18’ fast dayboat based partly on the Stornoway model but with lower sleeker lines. What has evolved is a hull with 6 planks per side and a very...
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  • The Lillie Canoe Yawl Plans

    The Lillie Canoe Yawl Plans

    The Lillie Canoe Yawl - this lovely craft was commissioned by Tom Dunderdale after reading the series of articles in the Classic Boat magazine on the 13' strip planked canoe yawl Ethel. The idea was to produce a canoe yawl of similar style to those of...
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  • 21' Grace Harwar Long Boat Plans

    21' Grace Harwar Long Boat Plans

    This design, for a Dutch client, has 8 planks per side which are simply stitched together edge to edge and finished with epoxy and tape. She may be fitted out in many different ways but the standard drawings show her with a steel centreboard which is...
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  • 16' Kane & Able Plans

    16' Kane & Able Plans

    For something quite a bit larger Kane and Able are two separate Suffolk Beach punts. Both have the same overall length, beam and arrangement. Kane is built using the clinker ply method and computer faired mould shapes for this are given on the drawings...
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  • 25' Lakeland Plans

    25' Lakeland Plans

    The Lakeland 25 is a modern double chined pulling boat designed for use on lakes, estuaries and offshore by outward bound organizations, scout groups etc. No frame set-up is required - she is made using simple stitch and tape techniques with computer...
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