15 ft Sailing Dinghy, Design #148

This recent design fills a gap in our family of daysailers. It is a performance boat similar in many ways to #113 "Jessie", but of much simpler construction, lighter displacement and better off-wind speed. The building method is traditional clinker on bent frames, centreboard is wood and the boat is open without side decks.

Skill level is high as are all our clinker designs but this is not a difficult shape to plank and frame. It would make an excellent project for those interested in practicing traditional building methods.

Construction: clinker on bent frames
 

Length: 15 ft 0 in
Beam: 6 ft 0 in
Draft (cb down): 1 ft 9 in
Weight: 450 lbs approx.
Sail area: 114 sq. ft
Building time: 700 hours
Skill level: high

Design #148: 6 Sheets