Design
Sherpa
Designed by John Welsford
A 9 ft tender drawn for a liveaboard couple who needed to get two hundred yards from the jetty to their boat, stable and beamy at 4 ft 5 in, and about 38 kg. A 43 sq ft sailing rig turns it into something to explore an anchorage in.
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