New design, 15' cat ketch

A year ago I started building a 15' foot open sailboat, which I designed myself, using Carlson Design software. It is broad lapstrake (4 strakes per side), with nailed and glued lap joints and seven permanent frames plus transom. The rig is very traditional, cat ketch with short unstayed wooden masts, standing lug sails and sprit booms. I constructed all the spars and sewed the sails myself. I also made a pair of 9-foot oars from poplar.

The boat is now ready and all that remains is setting up the running rigging. There are plenty of details for those so inclined on my blog (http://176inches.blogspot.com). My handle refers to the length of the boat as set in the plans (the final length is closer to 179 inches).

Any comments and questions welcome!

 

Welcome to the forum 176inches.
And thank you very much for sharing this project
(and the photos in the other thread at http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/new-design-15-cat-ketch-42804.html)

To keep things together, let's have further comments directed to the main thread at http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/new-design-15-cat-ketch-42804.html

Again, welcome to the forum and great work.