Plans for dinghies, dayboats, sail and oar craft
The original Campion: a 16 ft by 6 ft 3 heavy displacement double-ender. Yawl rigged with either a standing lug or gunter main, and foresail and mizzen of about 12.5 sq.m. A four plank aside stitch and glue/tape internally ballasted day boat with 125 to 150 kg of lead, sand or water ballast, removable for trailing.
Hull, fittings and rig: 135 kg or approx. 300 lbs; working displacement: 400 - 600 kg.
Photo above of a lovely stitched seam Campion 16 yawl courtesy of builder R. Corin
Campion in whatever guise is a stable and roomy double ender as tough and welcome to the eye as her namesake: sea campion. Designed to be sailed with internal ballast either lead shot or pigs, sandbags or even water ballast this is a powerful dayboat much more powerful than the original style of slim, low freeboard canoe yawl, but more in keeping with the larger, more heavily ballasted and rigged half-deckers that later evolved that can be man-handled relatively easily as the ballast is simply removed for maintenance or trailing behind a small car.
15 A1 sheets covering construction, plank layout, sail plan and lines. 4 A4 sheets covering both offsets and plank strake offsets for stitched construction. 26 A4 sheets including sail plan details, keyed construction plan details and outline building procedure.
The original 16 is also available as a sloop.
The 16 has been modified by stretching the stern quarters slightly for easier construction using stringers and glued clinker over inverted moulds and bulkheads to become the water-ballasted 17.
The photos of the lug rigged 17 courtesy of Dirk Branbergen, webmaster NatuurlijkVaren [Dorestad Raid 2017 | Natuurlijk Varen] www.natuurlijkvaren.nl/film-foto/dorestad-raid-2017/nggallery. Campion 17 gaff sloop photos courtesy of Brian Cooper.