
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