Baby Baggie

The Baby Baggie starts from the opposite end from the rest of the ten-footers. Where those chase cheapness and simplicity, this one is built to be beautiful, and the ten-footer length of 3.05 m was chosen mainly because it sets a sensible ceiling on what the whole thing can cost. The profile is classical, loosely after the American sandbaggers of the mid-nineteenth century: boats up to 30 ft carrying such enormous rigs that hired crews shifted sandbags from side to side to hold them up.

A 3.04 m ten footer built round hulled in strip planking rather than chined plywood, drawn for looks as much as speed and taking its profile loosely from the nineteenth century American sandbaggers. More work than the plywood boats in the class, and meant to be.