Design
16 ft Conch Ad Libitum Sailing Tender
Designed by Jay R. Benford
A 16 ft design from Jay Benford's catalog, drawn for plywood bottom with lapstrake sides construction. A flat-bottomed sailing tender that was modified after the first one showed up some teething problems. The designer writes up both the trouble and the fix rather than quietly redrawing her, and what was learned went into the 18 ft Cat Ketch that followed. One of the fifteen designs in Small Craft Plans, the book that carries complete working drawings and tables of offsets so a builder can work straight from its pages rather than ordering plans. The designer still recommends lofting full size and taking the rest of the dimensions off the lofting, on the grounds that the time spent is paid back several times over during the build.
Benford publishes an estimated structural weight of 300 lb. Plans are sold to owner-builders; professional builders are directed to a licensing agreement instead.
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