Design

SAM

The Micro class boat drawn to win, after a season of racing the Puck taught the studio what the class rewards. Fast in light air and still competitive in a breeze. Round hulled strip planking for an amateur, or a vacuum laminated sandwich for somebody equipped for it.

What building a SAM actually takes

Medians from the build logs kept on this site, not the designer’s estimate. Nobody has logged this boat here yet, so they are empty until the first builder does.

Build logs

Launched

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Median hours

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Median months

Those medians firm up as more people log this boat.

Builds of this boat

Nobody has logged a SAM here yet.

If you are building one, yours becomes the reference: the page the next person building this boat finds when they search for it. One photo and one line is a valid first entry.

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Boats like this one

Same type, closest in length.

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Swaggie	John Welsford	5.5 m (18′ 1″)	0
John's Sharpie	Chesapeake Light Craft	18′ 1″ (5.51 m)	0
Lit'l Coot 18 Bilge Keel	Devlin	18′ 0″ (5.49 m)	0
Sentinel Explorer 18	Dudley Dix Yacht Design	18′ 0″ (5.49 m)	0