Design
Koalen 18
Designed by François Vivier
Koalen 18 is a small traditional gaffer, 5.64 m long and 2.22 m wide, inspired by the fishing boats of northern Brittany with their plumb stem and moderately raked transom. She is an enlarged version of the Koalen 17 and is mainly a dayboat with a cuddy in which two people can spend a few nights.
The hull is planked over a crisscrossed plywood structure: a developed panel for the bottom and two layers of 4 mm plywood laid over stringers for the sides. The ballast is cast inside the plywood backbone, so there is no centerboard case in the cabin. She is offered as a gaff cutter or a gaff sloop, with an outboard in a well aft. The designer states that she can only be built from a CNC-cut plywood kit.
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