Design
Weekender
Designed by Michael Stevenson
The boat the company is known for, and by their own account their most popular design for more than forty years. The style is borrowed loosely from the Friendship sloops of New England, which is where the clipper bow and the gaff rig come from, and the size is chosen so that one person can build her, handle her and store her without any of the three becoming a project in itself. She is small enough to keep at home and roomy enough to sleep aboard, which is the whole argument for the type.
Plywood on a full-length shoal keel, carrying 120 square feet of sail. The plans have been reworked since the first magazine release, with the improvements that came out of forty years of builders folded back in, and they come with a three and a half hour home boatbuilding course on video, which is what makes this a realistic first build for somebody who has never built anything.
What building a Weekender actually takes
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