SAIL BOAT DESIGNS
Daysailors
| Ginger 16 | A high performance design using wood strips. Soft chines, self draining cockpit, masthead rig, centerboard. A good first project. |
Twin Keel Sailboats
| Grenada 14 | An inproved version of the original water ballasted design. Flatter sections, more beam, more ballast, more sail area. Stitch and Tape construction. |
| Grenada 24 | Trailerable 24 foot sloop with twin water ballasted keels. Soft chines, wood strips construction. |
Cruising Mono-hulls
| Molly 24 | Traditional style, sloop or cat boat, water and lead ballast, trailerable without permits. |
| Sirocco 49 | Serious blue water cruiser. Full keel, 16' beam, hard chines, metal construction, center cockpit. Sloop or ketch. |
| Sirocco 38 | Offshore 38 foot cutter. Long fin keel, hard chines, designed for aluminum or steel construction. |
| Sirocco 30 | Hard chine, plywood or metal construction. Long fin keel with several rudder options. A solid and affordable offshore cruiser. |
Cruising Multi-Hulls
| 41 foot, open wing, cruising trimaran. Stitch and Glue, plywood | |
| TRIdent 42 (sail) | 42 foot cruising catamaran with Wave Piercing center hull. Two staterooms, single engine. DuraCore construction. Sloop or Ketch. |
| TRIdent 46 | A very spacious design with 2, 3, or 4 private staterooms. Large swim platforms, with enough room to load and secure a 10' inflatable with its outboard. |
| Roamer 65 | Cruising Trimaran. Designed for charter work. 4 guest cabins, owners stateroom, and crew. Dual engines. |
I specialize in computer faired, variants of proven hull shapes, both soft and hard chines. Many of my small boat designs use wood strips to define the basic shape, and fiberglass cloth (both inside and out) for strength and stiffness. Building time is greater then "stitch and tape" construction, but any shape is possible and the boats are beautiful, sturdy, and easy to maintain. Wood strip construction is also simple to learn, and does not require any special tools. Most plans include full scale, computer faired (accurate), frame patterns (original color plots, not copies), building instructions, and a list of material suppliers, hardware sources and reference books.
My designs are developed and faired using Rhino 3D to define the outer mold line surface. The surface model is next sent to a Rhino "p building patterns are exported from PROLINES into AutoCAD LT, where the construction drawings are developed, and into Rhino 3D for surface modeling. The final prints, including full size patterns, are plotted with an 8 pen HP Draftmaster plotter on heavy vellum media. This is a very accurate process and no manual lofting is required. If desired, the drawings can be provided in a variety of digital formats.