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Sailboats - Racing

Flash 30

Designer

Erik Lerouge

Short handed offshore racer

Oar / Paddle

Sherpa

Designer

John Welsford

High capacity yacht tender with sailing ability. Exceptional stability, suited to beginner boatbuilders

Sailboats - Cruising

Donna

Designer

Jay Benford

This design has the same nice interior space layout as Badger, with the addition of quarter berths aft. For a family of four to live aboard, as has been done on one of the sisterships, this provides good separation of the sleeping spaces.

Motorboats - Outboard

Compass Skiff

Designer

Clint Chase / Chase Small Craft

Easy To Build | Cartoppable | Build With The FamilySpecifications:

LOA 9′ 6″
LWL 8' Beam 49″
Draft 3″
Depth amidships 17 1/2″
Power 6 hp outboard

Oar / Paddle

15' Prospector 'Ranger'

Designer

Steve Killing Yacht Design Inc.

Prospector “Ranger” 15 — a pocket-sized prospector.The Prospector models built by the Chestnut Canoe Company were made in lengths from 12 to 18 ft.

Sailboats - Daysailers

14' 6" Whilly Boat

Designer

Iain Oughtred

Considered a smaller version of the well-loved Calendonia Yawl, the Whillyboat also takes its cues from traditional Norwegian small craft, and is an ideal daysailer.

Building won't be at all daunting, as she's glue-lap-ply construction, and upkeep will be a snap.

Smith Island Crab Skiff

Designer

Rick Loheed

The Chesapeake Bay is home to many wonderful work boats, one of the most unique is the tiny Smith Island Crab Skiff. Our team race boat the “Twisted Oyster”, built and raced by a consortium of three friends, has been very successful.

Sailboats - Daysailers

Hanze Yawl

Designer

Bert van Baar/Pepijn van Schaick

The Hanze Yawl was designed some years ago during a course on lofting at the Bootbouwschool in the Netherlands.Bert van Baar, the owner of the school was very pleased about a Swedish design he had build previously in a project on the streets of Old Amsterdam.