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SAILING YACHT STOCK PLANS
SAILING YACHT DESIGNS

This range of sailing boats covers a variety of craft. The smaller boats will take 1 to 2 years to put together, while the larger yachts are going to be longer term projects.

With the exception of the plywood Paketi, strip planking is used for all these craft. Normally this method allows one to reduce or even eliminate a lot of transverse structure. In this case, to give a more robust hull, most of these designs have extra floors and frames between the bulkheads.

The big yacht designs with traditional profiles have quite a modern hull section, but retain an older style long keel and more moderate displacement for good sea going behaviour and characteristics.

The Skiff 38 in contrast is a harbour flyer, while the two day sailers will give you a more sedate ride.

Plans include lines, offsets, layouts, rigs, construction plans with details.

Fresh Aires in South Australia

Another traditional looking hull with higher performance is this 7.0m Daysailer design, a strip planked hull with a deep keel and modern rig. She is planked in 12mm WR Cedar and reinforced with double bias or plain weave fabrics. The 500kg lead ballast keel bolts to the hull, with laminated floors and plywood bulkheads as transverse structure. At 2.44m beam and 1.60m draft, this is a great boat for the social midweek race programmes.

Plans include lines, construction, rudder, keel, shroud plates, rig, deck plan and arrangement drawings, plus a set of offsets.

The Payne 7.4m Day sailer was specifically arranged and proportioned to suit disabled sailing groups, however her contemporary looks make it a fine yacht for anyone. She is planked in 12mm WR Cedar and reinforced with double bias or plain weave fabrics. The 800kg bulb lead ballast keel bolts to the hull, with laminated floors and plywood bulkheads as transverse structure. At 2.44m beam and 1.50m draft, this is a great boat for midweek racing or weekend sailing. The longer cabin version has two quarter berths as well as the V-berth and is well set up for inshore racing.

Plans include lines, construction, rudder, keel, shroud plates, rig, deck plan and arrangement drawings, plus a set of offsets.

$1100.00

The 21 Foot Restricted Class was the dominant racing class for interstate competition  between the two world wars, with fierce racing for The Forster Cup. The class began in the 1920s and stopped racing in the mid 1950s. About six still compete together, racing as a class  in Goolwa SA, and this strip planked design is being built to join the fleet. The higher freeboard and cuddy cabin will allow the boat to double as a day sailer/weekend cruiser.

Plans include lines, offsets, essential construction details including the steel plate centre board , and two sail plans for gaff or Bermudan rigs.

$300.00

Galatea,  building in June 2007, sailing in February 2008,the first new 21 Foot Restricted Class yacht since the early 1950s. The class lives on in Goolwa thanks to their living collection of heritage 21s.

As well as the strip planked design, another plan has been prepared for a custom racing craft, which is being built using the traditional scantlings and methods . This one is also under construction in Goolwa, and whilst the original plan was to do a Bermudan rig, a plan has been prepared for an alternate gaff rig. They will also put a  small cuddy cabin forward of the cockpit to deflect water in choppy conditions. This is not available as a stock plan, but enquiries are welcome for another new design to meet the original rule requirements.

Twilight Star is a robust coastal cruiser, best suited to two crew but with room for four berths. The 8.5m long strip plank hull has a raised topsides arrangement similar to the Maurice Griffith English style, creating more space inside. Specifications include 15mm WR Cedar planking with 600 and 400 gsm reinforcements, around plywood bulkheads. 0.9 tonnes of ballast is set into the keel, which can be built with or without the centreboard.

Plans include lines, construction, rudder, keel, rig, details, deckplan and arrangement drawings, plus a set of offsets.

Twilight Star profile, and arrangement below

The two big ketches are ocean going yachts. Traditional looks have been blended with simple strip plank construction hull forms and solid wood long keels. At 11.6m long, 3.25m beam, 1.45m draft and 7.5 tonnes displacement the Pauline Fay is a more moderate size than the 11.7m ketch, which is 3.57m wide, draws 1.60m and displaces 10.2 tonnes. Both feature gaff rigs and 20 or 25mm thick WR Cedar core planking with 1100gsm reinforcement, ply bulkheads, laminated floors and frames. Their arrangements feature a standard but well proven cruising layout with pilot berths in the saloon, a quarter berth aft of the nav station and vee berth forward.

Plans include lines, offsets, construction drawings and details, layout, rig and spar plans and fittings.

$1100.00 each boat.

Above: 11.70m ketch (top) and Pauline Fay (bottom)

Pauline Fay 11.70m Ketch

The Skiff 38 was a custom design for two clients. It is an inshore racing yacht with a cruising interior. The big rig and wings on the hull are features from the Sydney Harbour 18 foot skiffs which both clients had raced for many years. Even though it was designed in 1987, the hull shape is still competitive and with some revisions and modifications this would still be a fast design today. Construction is strip plank with tri axial laminates . AT 11.41m loa, 4.30m beam over wings and 2.15m draft on 3500kgs displt this is an extreme boat. One was actually lengthened in 1995 to just over 12m with a plumb stem, pushing the boundary further. It was an exciting boat to race in social and corporate events.

Plans covered lines, offsets, construction, details and rig plan. Contact David Payne for more details.

Skiff 38 profile, and under sail.