Archive for October, 2008

Cabrillo Skiff – the next step

Phase 2 Design Study

I’ve shown the Cabrillo Skiff at a couple of well trafficked Internet boating Fora now (Boatdesign.net and Sailing Anarchy’s Dinghy Anarchy Forum) and have had a host of comments to digest. Along with those comments, I have cooked up a few changes of my own for the design. The boat shown in the following renderings represents the collected enhancements, if you will, for the Cabrillo Kid’s Skiff concept. 

I have widened the aft side decks just a bit. While the changes are not really very radical, they are wider. I figure that most of this will be addressed by each individual sailor as they tweak their boats to suit their own preferences. I’ll probably see a nice use of adhesive backed neoprene, or maybe even some color keyed, indoor/outdoor carpeting along the rails, as the boats are modified for best comfort and rail edge radius.

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Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Daysailing, Sailing Monohulls.
Comments: 7

A Skiff for Kids

Kid Sized Performance

for the Homebuilder

 

Recently, a design brief appeared on the Dinghy Anarchy Forum pages of Sailing Anarchy.  Within that first post, the following objective elements were shown: Dinghy Anarchy Thread 

Kid’s Boat Design Brief

- Easily rightable by a 90-100 pound child – this also means it does NOT have to be keelboat stable
- Light enough to move around by a child (50-60 pounds hull weight)
- Big enough so he could take out a friend
- Simple to rig, sail and de-rig
- Fast enough to plane
- Unstayed mast
- “Cool” enough looking
- Self bailing, open transom, easy to enter from water
- Fun enough that he’ll let me sail my singlehand skiff by myself!
- Winter garage project
- Generally light wind venue with little real waves
- Don’t care about racing or an established class & society - my son’s a loner with no “pack animal” instincts (comes by it honestly)

I responded to this Brief by posting a couple of renderings for a small kid’s skiff which I had drawn-up some time earlier and had left on the shelf in favor of other projects. The Sailing Anarchy posting gave me a chance to unveil the new boat, but the story about its creation started much earlier…. much earlier.

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Posted: October 16th, 2008 under Daysailing, Sailing Monohulls.
Comments: 6