Boat Plans Wooden | Sailing Scows with a Difference

Boat Plans Wooden

Scow 420

Scow 450

Scow 450

Deans Box

SuperBrick

PencilBox

Jewelbox Jn

Teamwork Evolution

Yrvinds Ideal Boat

Madrigal

My thanks go again to Brian for providing another link to a website featuring a sailing scow, namely Scow 420, designed by Jérôme Delaunay. Plans for building this 14’ hard-chined boat can be obtained from Duckworks for $50.*

Jérôme designed and built for himself his Scow 450, which is a bigger version at 15’ LOA. Plans for building her are in the pipeline, but you can see photos illustrating her construction at Jérôme’s blog.**

One of the blogs he follows is Triloboats.*** This complements Dave Zeiger’s and Anke Wagner’s website with the same title. It gives details of ‘Slacktide’, their self-designed and home-built T26 Triloboat, aboard which they live. Their Triloboat 16 x 4**** would appear to be the smallest of the range.

Dave and Anke take their inspiration for boat design from working barges and the scows of Phil Bolger who designed the scow SuperBrick.*****

Jim Michalak was influenced by Phil Bolger. He designed Dean’s Box, a 16’ open scow. Describing the boat he explains how she is in keeping with Phil Bolger’s theory of rocker curve matching side curve for minimizing swirling around the chines. His Pencilbox with minimal accommodation for two, also accords to the Bolger theory – likewise does his Jewelbox Jr.

There is a cross-pollination of ideas and concepts shared between sailboat designers, and by looking at Sven Yrvind’s ideal small ocean sailboat (last Link) one can see similarities between her and some of the scows mentioned above. She is box-like, with moderate rocker, and has rounded chines and a snub bow.

Although Sven is not into speed sailing, I feel sure he would be aware of the success of the scow ‘Teamwork Evolution’ that competed in the Transat 6.50 which has a similar rounded bow to that of his ideal small ocean sailboat.

Finally, have a look at John Hawes’s Madrigal, a scow-like 22’ sailboat with characteristics similar to those of a Dutch Botter.

Links

*Scow 420

http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans/delaunay/scow420/index.htm

**Scow 450 (In French) with photos of the construction

http://voilierfluvial.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/construction%20d%27un%20voilier

Jérôme Delaunay Designs

http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans/delaunay/index.htm

***Triloboats

http://triloboats.blogspot.co.uk/

****Trilo T16 Study Plans

 http://www.triloboats.com/T16_Study_Plans.html

Trilobyte T16

http://shantyboatliving.com/2012/triloboat-16/

 

*****Bolger Superbrick Sailing Shantyboat

http://shantyboatliving.com/2012/bolger-superbrick-sailing-shantyboat/

Triloboats.com

http://www.triloboats.com/ 

SuperBrick Challenge – Bolger’s SuperBrick

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/03/r/articles/superbrick/index.htm 

  

Dean’s Box – a Michalak 16’ open scow

http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans/jim/deansbox/index.htm

Pencilbox

http://workingsail.com/boats/pencilbox/index.html

Jewelbox Jr – Plans

http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans/jim/jb_jr/index.htm

Madrigal

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/osbourn/Madrigal/

‘Teamwork Evolution’ – Winner of the Transit 6.50 Second Leg

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/teamwork-evolution-winner-of-transat.html

Sven Yrvind’s Ideal Boat

http://www.yrvind.com/boat_ideal/

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Plywood Boat Plans Australia | Closer to Sailing ‘Pike’

Plywood Boat Plans Australia

As long as the weather holds, I can make progress towards finishing the patio; after which I can take ‘Pike’ for a sail. That is the goal - that is the incentive to press on.

Yet to do, is a narrow portion beside the shrubbery boarder. This section gradually tapers, the widest part being at the lawn end. Making these pieces of slab will entail a lot of measuring and cutting. The boarder edges are not quite straight, and at the higher end, closer to the house, the boarder mouldings dip, instead of gradually rising, as do the lower ones. Because of this, I may have to reset the mouldings so that their tops are in line with the upper surface of the slabs.

The last two rows of paving slabs have to be cleaned, and their joins tidied.

The possibility remains that I may be able to finish the patio before my wife returns on Monday from her mini break in Italy.

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Plywood Boat Plans | Sailing Dinghy

Plywood Boat Plans

Last weekend I was in Florida to oversee decisions to be made about a small boat dear to me. Six years ago, I sailed the dinghy to the point I can truthfully say that I never had so much pleasure sailing on a small scale, just being on the water comfortably, safely and with speed. But this was a while ago. I am talking about a concept that my friend T. M has been playing around for a long time. His job, as an airline pilot did not allow him to put it all together from a manufacturing point of view. He only sold on a piece meal basis to cruising people watching and convinced after seeing the boat sail in the Bahamas somewhere and elsewhere.

So, with builder P-H we flew down for a meeting trying to solve some issues. The main questions have been how to attach the inflatables and still to be able to remove them easily if the need arises, how to build as light and as strong as possible, how to jazz up the sail plan and other important details. All in view to make a go with the commercialisation of this product.

By the way, T-M owns one of my designs, the 45 Cat-Ketch Sea- Gipsy. His very first sailboat. It figures. Being an airline pilot he could understand right away the benefits of wings and free standing spars.

                                              SAILING DINGHY SPECIFICATIONS

Length of Fiberglass Hull: 10 feet.

Length of Hull with tubes: 10 feet 8 inches.

Inside Beam of tubes / midpoint: 42 inches.

Outside Beam of tubes / midpoint: 62 inches.

Transom width: 40 inches.

Transom Height: 18".

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Plywood Boat Plans Australia | Two more sailing days

Plywood Boat Plans Australia

Last Wed night we had Ben Gladwell from Boating New Zealand magazine join us for a race as he wanted to review Blink, hed also organised a chase boat with well-known local pro photographer Chris Coad.  Chris took some pics of the inside of the boat first, and then was in a chase boat for on-the-water pics.  Ben steered for almost all of the race, and we had a great time gybing down Evans Bay flying the A2.

Yesterday (Saturday) was the second race day of the Xmas series at RPNYC.  The forecast was 5 knots variable and the day was indeed glorious, still and hot in the morning, so we were quite comfy with only 6 people for harbour racing.  Then a sea breeze - which is pretty uncommon here - started up at 12-15 knots for the first race.  This was a short windward-leeward and I knew this wouldnt suit us well yet, were still refining our furling technique and timing, and no decent chances to stretch our legs.  Add to that some minor nightmares, like a Div2 boat being right in our way where we wanted to start at the pin, and refusal of the A2 to unfurl quickly at top mark roundings (we got it sorted eventually, though, and learned a lot in the process), plus I horribly mis-estimated timing for both hoisting (underestimated) and furling (overestimated)... lets say our handicap would have improved and leave it at that.  We did, however, make a very good job of our general boat handling -- tacks, gybes, etc all pretty slick given how things were really quite busy on the short course.

Second race was a harbour course, more suited to us, but by this stage the breeze has started to get very light, and the whole Div 1 fleet were pretty much gybing through wide angles trying to keep speed on and all pretty close together.  We rounded the bottom mark and got the Code 0 hoisted, thinking that this would be just the thing... and then the breeze got up to 8 or so knots, then 10, then 12 ... so we took it down again.   Now using the light jib, we were gauging up on Ran Tan ahead of us  while the rest of the fleet had gone right.  they tacked away onto port near Somes island,  we decided to go a wee but further and got a 40° lift.  Not for long, but very very useful...  so we cleared Somes ahead of Ran Tan and kept our lead to the (shortened race) finish at Falcon Shoal.   Gunsmoke again.

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Pontoon Boat Plans Aluminum | No More Cutting of Slabs

Pontoon Boat Plans Aluminum

Cutting bench

This is what is left of all the original slabs

Fiddly bits

The narrow side pieces have yet to be mortared

General view

My neighbours will be relieved, because there will be no more cutting of slabs – no more noise and dust to put up with. The whole morning was spent shaping pieces of slabs. I used every slab that came with the original delivery, with the exception of a few odds and ends.

During the afternoon and early evening I arranged the fiddly bits and set them in mortar.

There are eight more narrow side pieces yet to be fixed and two more very narrow bits between the shed and the garage.

Apart from realigning the shrubbery boarder mouldings and tidying the joins between the slabs, within a couple of days I should have finished the entire patio.

The forecast for the next couple of days suggests there will be some rain - quite a bit on Monday that could hamper progress.

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Dinghy Boat Plans | Cornish Cormorant Sailing and Cruising Dinghy

Dinghy Boat Plans

Once again, I’m grateful to a follower of this blog for pointing me to a small sailboat website, namely that of Liz Baker’s Cormorant sailing dinghy pages.* She is a longstanding member of the Dinghy Cruising Association who has organised many or their South Coast gatherings. She has owned and cruised a Cormorant dinghy for a number of years, during which time she has learnt a great deal about getting the best out of her little boat.

You can learn a lot by reading what she has to say on the topics of cruising, launching, recovering, rigging, reefing and camping aboard her little boat.

Links

*Cormorant Dinghy

http://www.solentsoundings.org/Cormorant_Home.html

New 12’ Cornish Cormorant

http://www.cornishcrabbers.co.uk/dinghy-series/cormorant-12/ 

Cormorant Owners’ Forum

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/cormorantowners/info 

Cormorant 12 - Sailboatdata

http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=5221 

Cormorant Catboat

http://councill.home.mindspring.com/sbjournal/cormor/corm3.html 

Cormorant Dinghy

http://www.pixstel.com/cormorant-dinghy_urlt10765.php?db=2 

YBW Cornish Cormorant Forum

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?369402-Cornish-Cormorant-catboat-dinghy 

Dinghy Cruise to Shipwreck Beach (Tony Smith with a Cormorant Dinghy)

http://creeksailor.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/dinghy-cruise-to-shipwreck-beach.html 

2010 Cornish Cormorant £7,950

http://www.finedesign-marine.co.uk/2010-cormorant-dinghy.html 

Cornish Cormorant at Ebay - Asking £3,350

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cornish-Crabbers-Cormorant-Sailing-Dinghy-Day-Boat-Yacht-Trailer-Sailer-/221949913984?hash=item33ad3eeb80:g:mSQAAOSw7FRWVHYo 

1987 Cornish Crabbers Cormorant for Sale £3,350 (Same boat as above)

http://sailingdinghies.apolloduck.co.uk/boats.phtml?id=176&mi=4707

Morecambe Bay - Cormorant Cruising Dinghy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=l5nsOBnCy2Y 

Cormorant Cruising Dinghy at Morecambe Bay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h51LF6dhYug 

Dinghy Cruising Association

http://dinghycruising.org.uk 

Cornish Crabber Cormorant (Sold, but good photos)

http://essex.boatshed.com/cornish_crabber_cormorant-boat-116346.html 

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Boat Plans Nz | The dilemma of motor sailing

Boat Plans Nz

IT’S THAT TIME of year again. The wind on Puget Sound is practicing its summer trick of either coming from dead ahead or disappearing entirely. And in the calms we find all kinds of sailboats puttering along under power with their mainsails set and their foresails stowed. It’s called motor-sailing.
The question is: does the mainsail actually help? Is it contributing to forward motion, or is it a parasitic drag?
At first glance the answer seems quite simple: as long as the sail is filled with air, bulging with a business-like curve, it must be sucking the boat forward and adding to the engine’s speed. This must certainly be the case if there is a faint breeze blowing at 45 degrees or more from dead ahead. But what about a dead calm?
When there is no wind at all, the apparent wind caused by the boat’s motion through the water will come from dead ahead. This will make the mainsail flutter uselessly as the boom swings in to the centerline. There will definitely be no advantage in that case, and perhaps a slight disadvantage caused by the drag of the sail.
What then, if you pull the mainsheet traveler to one side or the other and pin the mainsail at an angle so that it fills with the air coming from ahead? This is what many sailors have always done, including me, to keep the mainsail quiet and, perhaps more importantly, to help cut down on rolling; but it has always worried me.
The sail might well be curved in a bulge that looks purposeful, but most of the power that it generates in this position is directed aft, not forward. It’s acting in the same way that a backed squaresail acts, and it’s robbing the boat of forward speed. The faster the motor pushes the boat, the greater the counter-effort.
So what we really should do in a dead calm is drop the mainsail altogether. We don’t, of course, not only because of the extra rolling, and not only because it involves work, but also because a little breeze could spring up at any time, and that would change the situation drastically. Even five knots of wind would change the mainsail from being a big bag of drag to a helpful contributor to forward motion, and we want to be ready to take advantage of it the second it happens.
And so we continue to motor-sail in the age-old way, our brows furrowed with the effort of trying to figure out whether the effort of dropping the mainsail is worth the slight gain in speed that might result. Mostly, I believe, it isn’t. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
Today’s Thought
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
—Arnold H. Glasow
Tailpiece
“Dad, if a girl kisses me, should I kiss her back?” “Hell no, son. Kiss her lips.”

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Boat Building Plans And Kits | Not guilty of distracted sailing

Boat Building Plans And Kits

I WAS LISTENING to the evening news the other night. Someone had just been found guilty of distracted driving, presumably in a car. I don’t remember what distracted him from his driving, but it did make me think that sailing a boat is full of distractions. And you have to attend  to each and every one of them at the same time.

I presume that if distracted driving in a car is against the law, then what the law requires is undistracted driving, which happens to be the opposite of multi-tasking.

Now, my friend Peter Ashwell used to tell me I was no good at multi-tasking. Being a scientific man, he always described as it as an inability to handle disparate attention, a description that worried me quite a lot at the time, but which meant the same thing as being lousy at multi-tasking.

I suspect now that he was bluffing me. We were fierce competitors in international-class racing dinghies. He never forgave me for sailing past him to the finish one time when I had just got a brand-new mainsail, upon which I had stuck several used Band-Aids to make it look old and blown-out.

It was one of the few occasions when I managed to beat him. And he was probably right about my concentration span. When I was going to windward I concentrated fully on the jib. I watched the leech for flutters and the telltales for positive flow. Nothing else mattered.

I should, of course, have also been paying attention to windshifts, the position of fellow competitors, the curvature in the mainsail, and a dozen other factors. But no, my little world revolved around the jib. If the jib was drawing perfectly, I knew I was getting to windward in the most efficient way possible.

Unfortunately, it’s not always the fastest boat to windward that wins a yacht race. Multi-tasking is what it’s all about. Perhaps no other sport requires you to be aware of so many situations and act upon them simultaneously, particularly if you’re singlehanding.

If you’re on port tack you have to be very aware of how closely the starboard boats are going to cross your bows. You not only have to watch your jib, but you have to decide whether to pull off to go behind them or try to make it across in front of them. You may have to sheet in the main to point a bit higher, and waggle the tiller to go in the right diection. You have to watch the water for stronger puffs and either luff up or ease the mainsheet.

All these things, and many others, distract you from the important task of watching the jib, if you are of the distractable kind. But dealing with distracted sailing, as I have learned the hard way, is how sailboat races are won. You have to be able to carry out many tasks all at once. Perhaps each separate task will not receive the full amount of attention it deserves, but, believe me, if you teach yourself to deal with many things at once, instead of focusing blindly on one aspect of the game, you will come out ahead in the end.

And if sailboat skippers can use distracted driving to garner success, why should it be illegal for landlubbers to practice it in cars?

Today’s Thought

When we think were multitasking were actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think were being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality were simply giving ourselves extra work.

— Michael Harris

Tailpiece

An attractive woman playing bridge with three men felt a foot run up and down her calf.

“If that’s my husband,” she said calmly, “I bid three no trumps. If it’s anyone else, I bid you watch out for my husband.”

(Drop by every Monday, Wednesday, Friday for a new Mainly about Boats column.)

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Pontoon Boat Plans | Topper Sailing Dinghy

Pontoon Boat Plans

Here are photos of a Topper dinghy recently seen sailing at Hullbridge. A quick search at Ebay revealed that more than half a dozen are for sale, ranging in price between £350 and £600. A new one can be had for £2,695! Fifty thousand of them have been sold worldwide.* Ian Proctor, who designed the boat back in 1977, certainly got it right. They were originally made from GRP, but they were soon being produced in large numbers by the speedy process of injection moulding with Polypropylene. Perhaps one of the reasons for their popularity is that they can be car-topped! Maybe that is why they are called Toppers.

*Topper Sailboats: https://www.toppersailboats.com/the-boats/#topper

Links

Topper Dinghy.co.uk

http://www.topperdinghy.co.uk/

 

Topper Dinghy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_(dinghy) 

The Topper Dinghy (Tuning and Features)

http://www.ibisailing.co.uk/dinghy/pdf/dinghy_topper_tg.pdf

International Topper Class Association – about Topper

http://www.itcaworld.org/about-topper

Topper Dinghy for Sale at Ebay £350

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Topper-Sailing-Dinghy-/301745343945?hash=item46416c8dc9

Topper Dinghy for Sale at Ebay £395

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Topper-Sailing-Dinghy-Boat-/361394456490?hash=item5424c9c7aa

Topper Dinghy for Sale at Ebay £420

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Topper-dinghy-/191683381078?hash=item2ca1384756

Topper Dinghy for Sale at Ebay £450

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Topper-Sailing-Dinghy-/151834171041?hash=item235a0596a1

Topper Dinghy for Sale at Ebay £500

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Topper-sailing-dinghy-with-all-accessories-/121775802456?hash=item1c5a674858

Topper Dinghy for Sale at Ebay £600

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Topper-Dinghy-and-Launching-Trolley-/231683642821?hash=item35f16bd5c5

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