Design
Rowing and Sailing Dory
Designed by Grandpa's Archive
This little dory was copied from an old wreck the author pulled out of a cranberry bog reservoir in southeastern Massachusetts, a boat with apple-crook frames and pine planks that he patched with plastic sheet and found to row beautifully. The new boat keeps that hull shape but is wide enough on the bottom to avoid the usual dory tenderness.
Construction is modernized: a 1/2 in plywood bottom and bottom strake, 9/16 in pine center and top strakes, oak chines, three frames and a daggerboard case. A hole in the transom lets her be sculled with one oar, and she can borrow the 45 to 65 sq ft rig from a sailing surfboard or small dinghy. Suggested as a tender, a fishing skiff or a children's boat.
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| Ultralight Dinghy | Chesapeake Light Craft | 6′ 0″ (1.83 m) | 1 |