Plans for dinghies, dayboats, sail and oar craft
Pearl 16, a stable day sailer or cruising dinghy, half-decked, with multichine stitch and tape or glued clinker over stringers construction.The hull is of 6mm or 6 and 9mm ply, the deck and cockpit of 5 or 6mm, with centre-board and dagger-board options. The cockpit has various permutations, from deep and open, to reduced volume, through to self-draining, but all with built-in buoyancy. This is a relatively light displacement boat designed for trailer sailing for a couple of adults with a lightly ballasted hull or for the single-hander with a well ballasted one.
Pearl, with either a lug main and mizzen, bermudian sloop, gunter yawl or gaff cutter rig, is beamier, flatter floored, fuller transomed design than Apple with the option of lead and water or water ballast. Annie is similar, but 18 foot LOD. See the Apple cutter photos for a similar but smaller version of the rig and general layout. Detailed plans for Pearl for both glued clinker construction and for multichine stitch and glue, with various cockpit layouts are available, as well as alternative sail plans a total of 22 A1 sheets and 26 A4 sheets of notes and keyed detail.
LOD: 4936 mm or 16ft 23/8; LOA - depending on rig: 6036 mm or 19ft 95/8; BOA: 1820mm or 5ft 113/4; maximum designed displacement: 575 kg, minimum 330kg; hull weight: 135 - 160 kg; ballast: 75 - 125 kg; sail area gaff rig (nominal): 123 sq ft 11.4 sq m. or 136 sq ft 12.65 sq m; lug and yawl approximately 11.5 sq m. The photos below are of a glued clinker Pearl - to be rigged as a gunter yawl with main, foresail and mizzen - in a very high quality build, showing great attention to detail. Build photos courtesy of Mr R Merriman.
Annie, below, is Pearl's big sister. Lines, offsets for a round bilge version and for a multi-chine version, together with strake panel offsets, but note no construction plan or keyed notes [though with 2 sail plans] are available for this larger version of Pearl.
Annie XT3: 18 feet long with more beam - 6ft - and freeboard; sail area 160 sq ft or 14.85 sq m; 350-650 kg displacement.
The two photos above are courtesy of builder Ian Davidson. Third photo, photographer unknown.
A version of a 19ft Apple/Pearl cross for a fast, spirited day sailer with a gunter yawl rig is also available as lines, offsets, strake plan and sail plan. There is also a beamier, deeper cruising style of boat in T930 [not shown].
