Sailing Yachts

Fulmar 34'

The Fulmar 34' is a larger sister to the original Fulmar 26'3" heavy displacement centre cockpit cruising yacht. Construction is ply over frame and utilizes ply fore and aft girders and ply bulkheads erected onto a strong-back before chine stringers and...

Siam 25 Plans

The Siam 25 has been drawn up as a open dive and fishing boat for a client in the far East that can also be used for simple family trips around the islands. Her hull has been based on the Rathlin 20' motor launch hull - a robust and stable design. The...

36' Cruising Ketch Plans

Designed to give as much accommodation as possible on a WL of 28’6’’, this cruiser has both inside and outside steering and up to 7 berths in a comfortable layout. Her ketch rig has all controls led back to the well protected cockpit...

Simplicity 24 Plans

This is really a combination of our Simplicity and Swan ranges of traditional cruising yachts for a client who wants an easily handled and safe cruising boat for his young family to sail on the South Coast. We have compromised between the two ranges and...

23 Yamato Plans

This is a modern plywood updated version of the Japanese Yamato fishing boats. The client in this case, worked in Japan and admired these boats - he was able to obtain the lines from one example and gave it to us so that we could draw up a simple...

22' 8" Ranworth Plans

The Ranworth is a typical Broads type sailing cruiser with generous beam and relatively large sail area to catch the wind above the reeds. She has 3 berths and space for a small galley and wc compartment. The cockpit is generous in size and could take a...

Hart 27 Motor Sailer Plans

I was commissioned to design a GRP family motor sailer with the emphasis on getting the most comfortable "package" into 27' LOD. The design has centre raised deckhouse which houses the galley and dinette with interior steering position...

Transat 6.5 Plans

This is a multi-chine plywood entrant for the Mini-Transat race which takes competitors across the Atlantic to Antigua via the Canary Islands. It is known as one of yachting's most dangerous races and is fought by boats with a maximum length of 6.5m. We...

20' Port Louis Plans

This attractive pocket cruiser was designed for a client on the island of Mauritius and has some of the hull design features of the indigenous craft with their sweet and not over wide transoms married to traditional English work boat hull shapes with...

24' Beaumaris Plans

The Beaumaris 24 is one of several trailer sailers for strip planking that we have had on the drawing board recently. This particular example has accommodation which includes 3 or 4 berths, a galley and a Porta-Potti w.c., all combined with a good sized...

30' Dragonfly Sharpie

For working the East Coast, exploring shallow estuaries and for the occasional hop across to the continent, maybe through the French canals to the Med, this 30' sharpie combines very easy and cheap construction with a simple and efficient rig and room...

26'6" Swallow Tancook Whaler Plans

Ever since I saw the lines of the Tancook Whaler in Chapelle's book Fast American Sailing Craft have been bugged by the wish to design a cruising boat using similar lines. The Tancook Whaler is one of those boats which evolved over many decades to do a...

24' Fast Cruiser (GA & Lines only)

A simple multi chine yacht with accommodation for up to 4/5 in what is, a fairly open plan and basic accommodation. A more modern arrangement with separate heads could be fitted. To keep construction as simple as possible, ply/epoxy construction or...

Simplicity 20 Plans

Following along the same lines as her smaller sister, this cruiser is an ultra simple boat with plenty of space and performance for her size. She has room for 3 or 4 berths plus galley and portable wc. Construction simply involves fixing pre-shaped...

25' 4" Breton Lugger Plans

The Breton Lugger is a simple 2 chine, 'V' bottomed ply over frame yacht. her hull shape is based on the Breton type made simple in chined plywood. The framework is made up of ply bulkheads edged with pine frames set up with ply bow and stern...

21' Rona Yawl Plans

This little ship has been designed for the sailing author Derek Harvey and incorporates many ideas gleaned from his years of sailing experience. The starting point for the design was the requirement for a trailable boat with comfortable internal...

North Pacific 60 Plans

The North Pacific 60 is a long range comfortable cruising yacht. Designed originally for a client in Hong Kong for use in the Philippines she has a wide beam and relatively shoal draft with a centreboard to enable her to get into anchorages...

49' Red Grouse Plans

This was originally a design contract for the detailed refit drawings for a canoe sterned wood hull which had been totally stripped of it's original accommodation, decking, rig etc. We drew up a new design which has sleeping accommodation for 8 in...

25'1" Kari 4 Sailing Cruiser Plans

The Kari 4 follows in the tradition of her smaller sisters in having a hull with 4 planks per side. Her construction starts with the assembly of a plywood framework consisting of a ply fore and aft girder incorporating the centreboard case etc slotted...

Nordia 10 Plans

This design is for a Norwegian who's brief was for a fast offshore and ocean cruising yacht which would incorporate an ample aft cockpit as well as a comfortable inside steering position with bunks for 5 to 7 people. The client is presently building the...

24' Mayfly Sharpie Plans

A neat little ply sharpie of simple and cheap construction with 4 berths (and room in the cockpit for more) for exploring estuaries and gunkholing. With it's simple unstayed rig, it is ideal for the small family. Uses disposable sand or gravel ballast...

24' Tasman Junk Rigged Yacht Plans

The Tasman is a multi-chine plywood yacht designed for long distance sailing for 2 crew, which uses an egg-box frame system of plywood fore and aft girders slotted together with plywood bulkheads - once stringers have been fitted, the ply hull panels are...

23' Martlet Pilot Cutter Plans

The 30' LOD Martlet has been a popular design and represents a lot of seaworthy boat for her length but I have often been asked about a smaller version - a design which embodies the robust pilot cutter looks and sea keeping qualities and the ability to...

Cat 25 Plans

The CAT 25 was designed to fit the Micro Multihull racing class as it was originally conceived. A set of plans is available to upgrade the standard design to fit the existing rules. Construction is similar to that of the CAT 19. Both boats incorporate...

Martlet 30 Gaff Cutter Plans

This is a design commissioned by someone who built one of our clinker ply Kane Suffolk Beach Punts and who wanted a safe, comfortable deep water cruising yacht which could also find it's way up relatively shallow creeks. For her length, she is to my...

Skye 21' Plans

Here is a smart little yacht combining 2 modern building techniques to make construction as quick and simple as possible. First of all, the pre-shaped ply bottom panel and longitudinal girders are put together with frames and bulkheads. To make things...

50' Cape May Schooner Plans

This is a strip planked long range cruising yacht with comfortable accommodation for up to 9 crew. Apart from the open plan living space there are 2 separate cabins. She has a large aft cockpit with plenty of lounging space and space below is...

25' 5" Shanghai Plans

This yacht was designed a modern interpretation of the junk type for music arranger and composer Mike Hale. She had to be a safe and comfortable cruising yacht with cross channel capability as well as the ability to venture into shallow waters. The...

34' 6" Pinky Gaff Ketch Plans

Based upon the Pinky fishing boats of Maine and Nova Scotia this neat craft, instead of carrying the traditional cargo of sardines has been laid out with a roomy accommodation for 4 or 5 people in 2 separate compartments. Her double ended hull and deep...

Pioneer 21' Dory/Sharpie Plans

In this design a client asked for the largest and safest single handed offshore yacht that he could get on a very limited budget. For your money. a dory or sharpie gives you more length per £100 than any other shape. Add to this type of hull a...

22' Kittiwake Canoe Yawl Plans

I think that the canoe yawls of the early part of this century were some of the most beautiful cruising yachts ever designed. They may not have had as much room inside as their modern counterparts, but they were sea kindly craft with an easily...

36' Loosemoose Sharpie Plans

This 36' offshore cruising sharpie was originally commissioned by Bob & Sheila Wise who wanted to replace their 26' Bolger sharpie. She may be used as a floating office and home and, with her shoal draft, for coastal exploring where she will be able...

Ailsa 22 Plans

The Ailsa 22' is a lightweight trailer sailer which uses plywood/epoxy construction for most of the hull and deck and modern strip planking for the round bilge area. Pre-fabricated plywood sections are used for the basic hull structure allowing a lot of...

Cat 40 Plans

The CAT 40 is a comfortable cruising catamaran using the latest thoughts on wide bodied hulls enabling much more accommodation than usual on a catamaran of this length. The standard arrangement has 8 dedicated berths (including 3 doubles) with the...

Cat 254 Plans

This is the latest racing version of the CAT 25 and embodies a long waterline hull with a light weight construction using tortured ply. The pre-shaped sides are simply stitched to the bottom and epoxied at a set angle. The 6mm sides are then pulled...

CR25 Cruiser Racer Plans

The CR25 (Cruiser racer 25) is a multi-chine ply yacht designed for easy unitized construction with ply bulkheads slotting into ply fore and aft girders to form the basic framework - the girders form cockpit seat and bunk fronts. Stringers are then...

Fulmar 26' 3" Plans

At 26'3" length on deck, the Fulmar is a heavy displacement cruising yacht which fits a spacious layout into a relatively short length. Her construction is of multi-chine ply extensively using pre-shaped ply bulkheads and girders. The forward...