Design
Scout 10
Designed by Brandon Davis
A 10 ft 4 in cartop sailing and rowing dinghy drawn for small-boat camping. The deck encloses a lot of dry storage, and an offset daggerboard keeps the footwell clear, which leaves room to sleep aboard on a narrow berth about 6 ft 9 in long. The hull is 4 mm plywood stiffened with closed-cell foam panels, so the finished boat weighs roughly 65 to 75 lb, light enough for a roof rack. Beam is 50 in and draft is about 4 1/2 in.
The rig is a single full-battened sail of about 60 sq ft on an unstayed mast with no boom, and it reefs. The rudder and daggerboard are foam-cored foils. Kit Boats Co. sells it as a CNC-cut plywood and foam kit with the foils, plus an optional epoxy and fiberglass kit and the sail and mast, and rates the build easy, at about 150 hours. Real hours from logged builds appear below.
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| Argie 10 | Dudley Dix Yacht Design | 10′ 2″ (3.1 m) | 0 |
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| Sunshine | Duck Trap Woodworking | 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) | 0 |
| Rhodes Wherry | Duck Trap Woodworking | 10′ 7″ (3.23 m) | 0 |
| Topper | Glen-L Marine | 10′ 8″ (3.25 m) | 0 |
| 3-In-1 | Stevenson Projects | 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) | 0 |