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Phoenix of Hamble

Phoenix of Hamble

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My young son and I fancy spending the winter period building a little wooden tender for our boat, to use with the outboard and oars mainly, but that can also take a mast and sail for mucking around on the water.... would need to be smallish to fit on the deck, possibly a two part nested boat?.... and would need to be reasonably easy to make, so probably stitch and glue... (I'm OK DIY wise, but don't want to get into wood steaming!)... a little gaff rig really appeals.....

Anyone have any recommendations on plans and/or kits?
 
How about a Tender Behind

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Or the Eastport Pram .

Or get into Free Designs

or the challenge of a One Sheet Skiff
 
PBO have their own design i think its called the PBOPup? About 7 ft Single sail plywood stitch and glue. dont know if you could modify it to a nesting type or not.
 
Specifically, the Nutshell kit

I built no 142 back in 1991, when Malcolm Goodwin was making them - he retired and sold the tooling and drawings to Barrowboats. Sail numbers must be above 204 by now.

Ours is in constant use today - as tender with a Seagull 40 on the stern and as a sailing boat by our 11 year old and 4 year old sons. Also rows and tows well, and is very stable (unlike certain other boats, listed nearby, that I could mention!)

Four modifications - buoyancy bags each side under the thwart, inspection hatches in built in buoyancy tanks fore and aft, bilge keels made deeper and shaped as handrails, and acoir rope fender all round. My elder son has demonstrated that he can recover it from a capsize singlehanded, which is reassuring.

We stow it on deck without trouble. Spars all fit in the boat.

This is a really, really good little boat, it was fun to build and it has lasted 15 years so far.

If you see us around, come over and try it!
 
Not quite what I was expecting when I opened the thread.

When sorting my mums garage prior to her moving I found a set of GP14 plans that my dad had bought, presumably for our old (202) GP14.

I have no use for them and might bang em on ebay.
 
Re: Specifically, the Nutshell kit

The 9 footer.

In a perfect world, I would have a boat that was a little lighter, from the point of view of getting her on deck and upside down. But I can manage it, and given the abuse the boat has put up with, over 15 years, the scantlings are certainly adequate. She still looks almost new.

For my next project, I'm going to build a boat from Paul Gartside 's plans. I am looking at his 16ft launch, but he has some lovely tenders also.
 
A PBO pup was made easily and cheaply in stich and glue, in 1982 and is still in service now as a sailing/rowing/motor tender. Sails well and carries 3 adults if not too choppy.
 
I can also recommend the Selway Fisher.

We built one for our circumnavigation - we lost count of the number of complements we had from other admiring yotties. She rowed beautifully and was a super little sailing dinghy. .. We tended not to use an outboard on her, and you would probably have to add some sort of board to the transom to make attaching an outboard easier.
 
A two-part nesting sailing dinghy/tender.

The B&B "Catspaw", see here for plan details. It is built by the stitch & glue method.

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I built my tender, though not this one, to plans bought from B&B last year. It was easy to build (here are my efforts), and if you have problems there is an online support forum to help.
 
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