Design
Scraps
Designed by John Welsford
The tides where Welsford sails run 10 or 12 ft, so his 18 ft gaff sloop has to lie in about 20 ft of water at high tide to stay afloat at low, and he was tired of not being able to get ashore. The car had no roof rack and no space for a dinghy, so the new boat had to live upside down in the cockpit on the trailer, and the gap between the rudder post and the cabin bulkhead was 5 ft 4 1/2 in. Very small boats leave almost no room for compromise: they have to be stable, row well, tow straight and dry well above hull speed, and be light enough to carry.
A 6 ft 3 in tender weighing 22 kg, small enough to sit on the foredeck of an 18 ft gaff sloop and burdensome enough to be worth having there. Drawn because the alternative was swimming ashore with the clothes in a drybag.
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