Design Work in Progress

Maine Coast Dinghy, an 18'8" open dayboat



     LOA 18'8"
    Beam 6'6"
       Displacement ~1300lbs     

Design Brief:
  • An open boat capable of taking on open water
  • Safe and stable for the whole family, possibly some fixed ballast
  • A feeling of safety with side decks an depth amidships
  • Rigged as a sloop-yawl or Lug-yawl (consider a high-aspect standing lug and carbon mast!)
  • Can be rowed for auxilliary power but best with a Torqueedo motor on transom bracket
  • Exciting sailing is a must, but control and safety is as well both in shore and in open water
  • plywood-lapstrake construction
      
      

Swampscott Dory, the ultimate sail & oar boat



    LOA 18'6"
    Beam 4'11"
    Beam LWL 3'9"

The Design Brief:

  • A traditional open Swampscott dory that will be more family friendly (for a dory!)
  • To be rowed primarily by two people but one can row by moving thwarts around
  • Can take a large load for extended trips along the Maine Island Trail
  • Can also be taken out for fun sailing or a leisurely tandem row
  • Designed with a mix of glued plywood-lapstrake planking and traditional cedar strakes, riveted
  • A greater degree of secondary stability to take a larger sail rig (a 105 SF balance lugsail)
  • Multiple rig for flexibility, balance lug yawl (from Goat Island Skiff), a traditional dory rig, and perhaps a boomless, standing lug
  • Built fairly light for a dory with glued ply and cedar planking
  • More sheer than traditional Chamberlain dories and Gardner's variation


Below is a tentative sketch of the construction drawings and a nearly final drawing of the sail rig






Other drawings in the works

  • A 20' family daysailer with cuddy and sliding gunter rig (lines complete from Paul Gartside's course at Wooden Boat School)
  • A 15' sailing dinghy with standing lug (lines complete)
  • An 18' tidal waters canoe for exploring estuaries and inshore waters with a sail rig (preliminary sketches)