Desginers of wooden ships like pilot cutters etc?

hello!

I am curious to know if there are any designers who design new boats but in the style of the old sailing pilot cutters, fishing trawlers etc. An example is the Workign Sail in Cornwall U.K. ( http://www.workingsail.co.uk/ )

Are there designers who design such boats even now?
Are there other companies that are building such ships?

I wonder how much of these boats are designed new, and how much of of the work is making copies form older designs.

Cheers

Mohan

 

Nigel Irens and Ed Burnett are two desgners who have done a lot of this sort of work.

 

Jeppe Jul Nilsen in Norway has designed a few "Colin Archers",
that is boats that are very close the Colin Archers original lines for pilot boats and rescue boats.

http://home.online.no/~jeppejul/Colin Archer Yachts.html
http://home.online.no/~jeppejul/ColinArcherPlans.html

 

There are some. There are also loads of proven original designs info, oftenly with a hull lines and offset tables published in books by authors as Roger C. Taylor, L. Francis Herreshoff, Howard I. Chapelle… Many old designs are avaible through the archives. Mystic Seaport for example.

http://www.nigelirens.demon.co.uk/FRAMEcruising.htm
http://www.gartsideboats.com/index.php
http://www.yacht.ro/bristol_unu.php?lang=en&linc=bris_unu
http://members.aol.com/hespj/rosebud/
http://www.cockwells.co.uk/newbuilds_bristolchannelpilotcutter.htm
http://www.pilotcutter.co.uk/index.html
http://www.samlmorse.com/
http://www.msog.org/yarns/lyle_hess_wb/wb-lylehess.cfm
http://www.bronsveen.nl/zeilboten.php?content=zeilboten

 

Most designers worth their salt would love to do a new version of one of these beauties. Contact a NA or designer and bounce the idea off them. I'll bet they'll jump at the opportunity. I certainly would.

 

Jim Franken in Port Townsend, WA

 

Enavigo 33 - Pilot Cutter

take a look at this boat: www.enavigo-yachts.com

 

Nice.
Do they list a price?

 

I think the basic price is around 180.000 Eur