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Perhaps the most famous of sharpies was the Commodore's Egret design, now immortalized in plans available from WoodenBoat magazine. Commodore Monroe designed Egret in 1886 and had her built on Staten Island and delivered to Key West. [1] Egret was unique in that she had higher, flaring sides than the typical sharpie and was double-ended. This ...
The St. Ayles Skiff (pronounced Saint Isles) is a 4 oared rowing boat, designed by Iain Oughtred and inspired by the traditional Fair Isle skiff. The boat’s hull and frames are built using clinker plywood and it measures 22’ with a beam of 5’ 8”. It is normally crewed by four sweep rowers with a coxswain.
The design features a yawl sail plan, six berths, and over 6.0 ft (183 cm) of headroom ("standing headroom throughout"). [9] A centerboard allowed for a minimum draft of 3 ft 11 in (1.2 m) that extended to 8 ft 15 in (2.8 m) when lowered.
The plans for the hull of a 26-ft yawl built for the Royal Navy in 1809 in Portsmouth Dockyard. It is fitted for 10 oars. The yawl as a type of Royal Navy ship's boat appeared early in the second half of the 17th century. In early mentions, they were sometimes referred to as "Norway yawls", so showing a Scandinavian influence.
Mizzen: the aftmost mast and sail in a yawl or ketch, or in a vessel with three or more masts. Oar a wooden pole enlarged on one end to resist the water when pulled. Painter: a short line at the bow of a small boat for tying it off. Parrot beak: a spring-loaded stainless steel fitting on the end of a spinnaker pole attaching it to the sail.
He later drew plans for the great 75m² Skerry cruiser Bacchant (II) that furthered his reputation as a designer of fast cruisers and racers. Reimers most celebrated construction is the Tumlare which was designed in the early 1930s (1933 from a majority of sources; No. 1, 'Aibe' was built the next year for Bengt Kinde), and became a popular ...
Concordia Yawls #85 Arapaho and #82 Coriolis. The Concordia yawl is a class of wooden yawl sailboats; it was designed in 1938 by the naval architect C. Raymond Hunt with input from Llewellyn and Waldo Howland, Clinton Crane, Fenwick Williams and Frank Paine. [1]
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