Design
Zen
Designed by Paolo Lodigiani
A ten-footer drawn for class racing, with about 6 square metres in the basic rig and room to go to the class limit of 8 on a longer mast for anyone racing hard. One of the Diecipiedi, the Italian ten-footer development class, which fixes the length at about 3 m and caps the sail area but leaves the hull shape and the rig to the designer. That is why several boats in this catalog are within a few centimetres of each other and still sail quite differently. The stitch and glue method is what keeps these quick to build, and the reason is specific: the internal edges, which are the slowest and fiddliest part of finishing any plywood boat, are hidden inside the watertight compartments, so the inside can be rough and only the outside of the hull needs care.
A 2.98 m ten footer for class racing, chine hulled, stitch and glue, and rated a beginner build. Stable enough that a racing helm can carry the full 8 square metres the class allows.
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