Latest updated Tuesday, January 19, , comments. Images Particulars More about Background and history. Sharpie is designed as a daysailer and weekender, a use most boats are put to, regardless of their design purpose.
Look at the photos of Bernard Goffin's gaff rigged Sharpie to see the building process. The plans show either the lug or the gaff rig and this must be specified when ordering. Both are a bit unusual today, but are excellent on small shallow-draft centerboard boats. They were very common earlier, being easily handled, simple to set up with a minimum of technical gadgets and comfortably sailed singlehandedly.
The gaff sloop. The mast of the gaffer sits in a tabernacle and can be lowered and raised in minutes to pass under a bridge. Since most sailors are used to one-mast boats it might seem less challenging than the lugger.
The gaff is a way to increase the sail area on a shorter mast and thus reduce weight aloft the same way full extended battens increase the area aloft on a modern competitive mainsail. A gaff mainsail can be lowered or reefed without pointing the craft into the wind let go of the throat and peak halyards and the sail comes down regardless of the wind direction. The gaff rig is not as efficient close hauled as a modern rig but makes up for it reaching and running.
The lugger. The lug is an even older type of rig, with several interesting advantages. There is no boom to avoid when jibing and no sail flapping in you face when you stand up in the cockpit. With two masts it is excellent for precision maneuvering under sail; go sideways or backward to a quay, or to turn on a dime. The unstayed masts bend a little in gusts, instead of boat heeling over. The light masts are easy to lift in and out singlehandedly � but of course not as easy as lowering the tabernacled gaff mast.
The lug rig was very popular hundred years ago on coastal workboats around the world: efficient, simple and easy to handle with a minimal crew. The lug rig was my first choice for the sharpie since I was very impressed with the performance of the lug rig on my canoe yawl a couple of years earlier.
But many interested builders were not quite confident with such an archaic rig, and I got questions about an alternative. So I drew a gaff sloop. Many seem to choose the gaff for aesthetic reasons: it looks more ship-ish. Inexperienced builders may need to consult books in basic boatbuilding techniques.
The boat is built with plywood � a simple and quick way to achieve strength and a smooth finish � double 12 mm sheets on the bottom, 12 mm on the sides and 9 mm on the deck and house. Wood strip construction is an alternative � though it will be more time-consuming.
The plywood sections and longitudinal bulkheads fit together like a large puzzle, creating a super-stable 3D grid, joined by epoxy fillets. The image above shows the lug version. Note: The gaff and lug version are on different plans. Please specify which you want when ordering. No building manual is included. For more information on building techniques, please consult one of the books on boat building listed in literature. I frequently get questions about the off-center board, positioned 30 cm to the right of the centerline.
It means that the centerboard trunk that usually transforms the cabin of shallow-draft cruisers into two narrow and not very usable spaces is now out of the way, hidden behind the Plywood Racing Sailboat Plans For longitudinal bulkhead. The Sharpie is surprisingly roomy. In the good old days, the centerboard was often placed through the planking beside the keel as boat builders did not like cutting holes in the backbone.
Thus, my Sharpie follows a respected tradition, although the offset is slightly more than the older custom. The suggested interior layout is simple and easily maintained, without any installations electricity, plumbing etc. An alternate solution is to have two cans for fresh water and to drain the 'gray water' waste through the centerboard trunk.
A removable section of the transom can be a perfect place for an outboard motor, or you can arrange something a little more elaborate with a motor well in the aft left corner of the cockpit. Lighting can be LED lamps with dry cells, or LED lamps run on a house battery under the cockpit in which case a four-stroke outboard motor with an alternator would be best suited.
If someone wants to put sailmarks on the sails of their Sharpie, here are a couple of suggestions. They are available as downloads on the resource page. The color can be adjusted to suit the color scheme of the hull. The Sharpie started as a private project - an idea for a very simple, hassle-free, inexpensive and convenient way for me to spend time at sea.
When the design was nearing completion in , the UK magazine Classic Boat launched a design competition with almost the same specifications as those I had set for myself.
I submitted my design in the competition and was happy to see that the Sharpie was honored with a third place award. Sharpie was honored with a third place award in Classic Boat's design contest Perhaps a centerboard and a mizzen placed off-center were hard to take for English traditionalists. One of the judges commented:. Perhaps if I had put the centerboard in the middle compromising the livable room in the cabin and centered the mizzen mast complicating the construction with a non-lifting rudder in a slot, or a link system between the rudder and tiller I might even have won!
They are tricky, those Englishmen ;-. To date Summer 41 sets of plans have been shipped, but I am still waiting to start building my own Sharpie There have been a lot of kayak projects in those years.
Sometimes someone voices strong views on what can be allowed to be named a sharpie, and we, who design modern sharpies, are reprimanded for lack of traditional uprightness regarding nomenclature. Real sharpies are long, low and narrow, were nailed together with tongue-and-groove boards and sported two masts with triangular sails.
They were fast and more seaworthy than the appearance might suggest. Room under the deck was nothing more than a joke. Standing height in the cabin required a hull length of meter � and even then it looked like a high shed on deck � but on the other hand, it was cheaper to nail together a meter sharpie hull than to build traditional 9 meters "normal" sailing yacht. Most of the had centerboard and you could sail up to the beach and disembark with dry shoes.
The type is considered to have originated in New Haven in the early 19th century and migrated down the east coast while evolving to suit the local conditions.
My sharpie is too high, wide and short to be a "real" sharpie, according to the defenders of the traditional sharpie. The world of sailboats is full of short, wide, and high sharpies � while the "real" ones are displayed in museums.
The advantages of the sharpie hull are too good not to be used and developed. The photos below show the old original sharpie. It is from New Haven and the end of the 19th century. One of the better-known versions of the traditional sharpie concept, is Commander Ralph M.
Designed in the end of the 19th century, it has been built many times plans are available from the Wooden Boat Store and has inspired many interpretations.
What are your feeling towards the different rigs? I have experience with gaff rigged sails, but I've never used a lug rig. From what I've read, the lug should be simpler and less expensive.
Does Boat Construction Plans China it have any handling advantages over the gaff rig? Both rigs are a bit archaic in the light of modern racing theory. Modern high narrow rigs and deep heavy keels has an edge going upwind, but the lower rigs have an advantage in crosswinds and following winds and they are generally easier to manage.
The gaff rig mast sits in a tabernacle, meaning that it is easy to lower for example, to get under bridges. Since most sailors have some relation to gaffs, more of these are built. The lug rig is an older type of rig, with a couple of interesting advantages: There is no boom, to hit you gybing.
You have no sail over the cockpit flapping in your face. The two-sail configuration gives you a better maneuverability turning, sailing sideways to quay, backing etc. The masts are unstayed, so they flex slightly in gusts, spilling wind and reducing heeling.
Lugger masts are light and easy to lift in and out by hand but not as easy to quickly lower as a gaff mast in tabernacle. The lug was my first choice, designing the sharpie, mainly from previous sailing experience under lug, which made some impression.
But many potential builders felt unsecure with so archaic a rig and I received many requests for an alternative. So I designed the gaff version. The gaff outsells the lug 3 to 1. I is my understanding that many builders choose the gaff version for aesthetic reasons, finding it more "ship-like". I have been studying Sharpies for a while now and have found that your "" is the right boat for me.
I am in the planing stages for building your boat, but still have questions that I cannot find answers to in the text of your website. Concerning my budget, do you have a list of materials so that I might estimate my costs before commiting to the final project? I write to inform you of my discovery of the Contessa.
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I have to come back to you about the material list. I never worked that out since I never build the Sharpie for myself � got hooked on kayaks instead ;-.
Nice to see that so many are interested in the Sharpie. Auduns video really show the beauty of the lines and how well it sails. Tengo la inquietud de construir un bote muy parecido al Sharpie , lo felicito su bote es hermoso. Thanks Ernesto.
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