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Boat plans

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Complete set of plans to build a 14’ 4” fractional rig sloop with kick-up rudder and center board trunk, in ‘stitch & glue’ construction. Plans include full size patterns for tracing shapes onto the plywood. I didn’t build this boat (so the patterns were never perforated & chalked), but I did build an 8’ sailing pram (like an Opti) from plans by the same outfit, and those plans were very good to work with. The successor to the company that sold me these plans in 2005 now has a 16’ version of this design, which otherwise looks to be the same boat. Details and additional info here: https://bateau.com/studyplans/CV16_study.php?prod=CV16.#specs

Free to a good home – i.e., I’d like to send these to someone who wants to and thinks they will actually build the boat. From discussions elsewhere on this forum I think this might make a fine Raid boat.
 
I would be pretty seriously interested in these.

It will be a while, probably 4 years before I build something, and you might prefer to find someone with a closer horizon, but it WILL happen.

And yes, that would make a really nice RAID / cruising dinghy type boat.
 
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AlanH said:
It will be a while, probably 4 years before I build something, and you might prefer to find someone with a closer horizon, but it WILL happen.
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Good home found. Your skill, experience, and enthusiasm tip the balance against waiting for anyone else to claim them. I will be looking forward to seeing your posts about the build, whenever that happens. And as I scraped off the old mailing labels I see that I was holding these for 25 years, not 15. Mailed to the address in the PM you sent me.
 
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Thank you so much, Lee! I'm excited.... Here's what the finished boats look like.

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The boats are a huge family one-design in france and both fiberglass and wood boats are still in production. The 'glass ones are built with enclosed seats for flotation.

Here's why they'd make a great cruising dinghy...

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And here's a shot of a plywood one...not stitch and glue, but still.... with the decks off. Pretty darned simple.

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I'll probably build the boat with a daggerboard instead of a pivoting centerboard. I might make the rig a gunter sloop, so the spars all fit inside the boat and I can drop the yard to sneak under 15-foot tall bridges. We'll see.
 
I am very glad to hear all this. I bought these plans in 1995, when I had sailed just enough to start thinking about a boat of my own. This looked like something do-able for a first-time wana-be builder, and I thought I could trailer it from AZ to, say MDR, and sail it to Catalina. After studying the plans, I decided the better part of valor was to start with the 8' pram. Seen here in row-boat configuration, before I built the mast & rig to sail the boat. Super Bowl Sunday, 2004.

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Small passenger at the stern is now in post-graduate studies at a university in the NYC metro area. A mystery as to how that could be.
 
I used to have a mirror, many years ago. Man, I loved that boat. An El Toro is just a little too small for me and the Mirror was perfect. This is, essentially a gigantic Mirror. If it wasn't a pram, it'd be a 15 footer, maybe 15' 6". This will be fun...AFTER SHTP 2021!
 
If a Toro's too small, how about a Melody? A 10-foot version of the Toro idea - complete with bench seats to sit on. My first boat in 1971 - long gone, although I have the mast, boom, centerboard, rudder, very old sail, and a set of plans. (Why I don't know!) I named mine "Unchained." It was the "move up" boat in the 1960s for those wanting a little more room or to take a 2nd person or kids along. Here are 2 photos from Huntingon Lake. I'd be happy to pass the relics and the plans (if I can locate them) along to someone wanting to build an "una" sail dinghy. A few sheets of plywood and some trim. Shipping would be prohibitive, so someone in the Bay Area. -- Pat B.

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A Mirror is ten feet long, so this is basically the same idea. It would be relatively easy to add a foot of length to the four fore-and-aft panels and stretch it to 11 feet, keeping the beam and the bow and transom the same, and then you’d have a wonderful dinghy-cruiser. I bet this can be built with a full bulkhead just forward of the midpoint to make a nesting dinghy, too.
 
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