Plans for dinghies, dayboats, sail and oar craft
Iceni 14: with four planks each side, this is a fast, stable, multichine stitch and glue - or glued clinker over stringers - beach cruiser or sailing dinghy design with a choice of balanced lug or lug yawl rigs for home boat building.
The Iceni 14, a sail and oar dinghy, is the big brother to the 12 and modelled along similar lines, but providing more room, stability and speed with its length of 14ft 6 and beam of 5ft 3. It ia a powerful, well-balanced dinghy for day sailing or open boat cruising, yet very easily driven both under oars and outboard. Like the 12, this dinghy is designed to be as docile sailed heeled as bolt upright, very forgiving yet highly manouvreable.
The version with a large single balanced lug has been drawn up for light wind areas, river sailing and general pottering, as well as one with standing lug main, sprit mizzen and foresail - which, whilst having more area, offers numerous reduced sail combinations - and was a popular rig for small open fishing boats in the days of sail and oar in a number of English coastal areas. A straight-forward standing lug una rig is also included in this. The cockpit layout has been arranged so that it would be very easy to provide an off-the-floor, out of the bilge sleeping area for the camp cruiser.
Plans for the Iceni 14, including the single sail balanced lug version as well as the yawl sail plan and single standing lug version, consist of nine A1 sheets of drawings and some 30 A4 pages of keyed construction detail, an outline building procedure for the stitch and tape construction, offsets, strake offsets and frame offsets. Below is the inverted mould set-up for the clinker version.
Lollipop, named by Tyme's daughters, is an exceptionally nice example of a clinker-built Iceni 14. Her highly pleased builder reports that she rows very well, not only as a single, but with 2 adults and 3 children, too, and does about 6 mph under power with a 50 year old 4 hp outboard.The intention was to use Lollipop as a rowing and outboard skiff for a year or two and convert her to sail in the future. Bottom photos are as she is today when rigged for sailing. Photos courtesy of her builder, Tyme Wittebrood.
