Best Tender for a Classic

I looked around and couldn't find any better place here to put this question, so here goes:

What do people suggest as a tender for a classic style yacht?

Whitehall, Catalina Wherry, Banks Dory, etc..... I'm looking for real advice and might build might buy; but I probably won't design it.

Thoughts?

Beau

 

For a bigger yach a scandinavian Snipa.. inboard engine, can carry a sail too..

 

Look at the FEATHER CRAFT site.

These light early aluminum boats ,The Deluxe Runabout , and some others are very stylish , great tumblehome , and very inexpensive.

The old shiney "streamliner" trains are very captivating , so there is no reason that a classic launch needs to be wood.

FF

 

Thanks

Thanks for the leads so far. My friend and I need to lift whatever we get aboard our low-freeboard sloop so I'm afraid a powered tender won't do. Also, I really hate gasoline aboard a boat; so, I'm trying for oars and sails.

BV

 

Light like a fairy.. http://dngoodchild.com/divide_for_small_craft.htm /Prams and Punts/BOUNCING BETTY a lapstrake pram..

another.. old one.

 

A 14 ft or thereabouts dory, with an outboard well, oars, and sprit or lugsaill. Fit it with a 2 hp four stroke. Good seaboat as well, in case ya gotta sail it home.

 

If you want classic, you can restore or commission something like this one, which is a tender to a vintage Monk.

 

If you are lifting it aboard you want a lightweight plywood or cedar planked boat with minimal framing.......Kits for lapstrake ply tenders are available by mailorder from WoodenBoat and Chesapeake Light Craft....

Or you could choose to support traditional wooden boat building by commissioning or buying from one of the boatbuilding schools......The Arques school is local.......

http://www.arqueschl.org/

Also the NW School up in Washington......

http://www.nwboatschool.org/

 

Hello Beau,

take this! Simple to build, beautyful and very light! Plans are free! It needs three panels of 1/4' Plywood.



http://intheboatshed.net/2008/02/08/a-little-classic-anyone-can-build-this-spring/

Have Fun! Michel

 

I just received the plans for this 10'



a 1932 design only 70 lbs

 

Beautiful!!

This 1932 beauty is lovely. What's it called? What's its LOA? I was thinking that as a tender it would be perfect. Although I might paint the lower 1/2 of the outside of the hull to match the sloop. That does, however, seem a crime to commit.

BV

 

That's beautiful. Where was it found? Prints/plans???

BV

 

Paint may be reason to be keel hauled

It is a Lawton design, I have the plans if you want them


Length (LOA) 10.06"
Length (LWL) 9,82"
Beam (BOA) 45"
Beam (BWL) 43"
Weight 70 lbs.
Displacement (Capacity) 575
Draft (at Capacity) 4.83
Center Depth 19.81"
Depth at Bow 23.16"

 

Edwin Monk's How to Build Wooden Boats: With 16 Small-Boat Designs, published in 1946, has plans for a beautiful 9' x 4' pram which will carry up to four people. He named it 'Stubby,' which is an injustice; it's quite a graceful little thing.

I redrew it two feet longer for my nephew a few years ago, and there were no particular problems in the build. As a matter of fact, the constant-angle vee-bottom made it easy to substitute plywood for the bottom.

edit: Monk's book is available through google books, and the plans themselves can be seen in this preview (along with a photo of the prototype):

http://books.google.com/books?id=n0...&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

i can build you one of these we built for lulworth