Wooden ships comments on this Tosher 20 gaff cutter
Full spec to follow
Tosher 20. LOD 20’ LWL 19’ Beam 7’ Draft 3’6”
Designer: Martin and Terry Heard
Builder: Martin and Terry Heard
Year: Late 1980’s
Construction: GRP. Lots of wood trim.
Rig: Gaff Cutter. Aluminium mast. Standing and running rigging new 2011.
Mainsail, topsail, new racing jib and staysail 2012. Furling headsails. 2011 – new winches, clutches, traveller and runners. New mainsail and topsail covers 2010.
A brand new dinghy, never been in the water. Little boats like this are almost works of art. In fact I would sooner have this hanging on my drawing-room wall than some of the expensive “art” we see being sold for large sums of money – and it has a use!
Ian Oughtred is an Australian, twice National Dinghy Champion who came to London in the 1960’s and set up his small boat design office. His book Wooden Boatbuilding in Britain is an excellent guide to our boat building industry complete with discussions on materials and techniques.
Many of Ian’s designs are aimed at the amateur builder using various modern methods of construction like glued clinker plywood or strip plank. His work is influenced by American tradition but he has made a study of traditional small English boats producing some exceptionally pretty designs
The Acorn is perhaps his best known design and can in fact be stretched from 10’6” to 14’ depending on customer requirements.
This 12’ example was professionally built by boat builder, Tim Gilmore at his yard in Birdham Pool, Chichester. Planked in Sitka spruce on an oak back-bone with steam bent oak timbers.
Finished all varnished inside and out with 12 coats Joten Ravilac varnish.
The work is exquisitely finished – look at the reed in the lower edge of the inwhale and the stringer, also seen on the artistically shaped after thwart support and the back rest with it’s inlaid acorn. The knees are fashioned from grown oak in the traditional way. The slatted sole boards are held in place by a simple turnbuckle, there is a variable stretcher for the feet, even the steam bent timbers are half-rounded
This is a sailing version fitted with a wooden centre-board and a lift-off rudder.
There are several rig designs so Tim decided to wait and build a rig to an owner’s choice on indeed none at all as the boat can be used as a rowing boat.
She has a fine pair of new oars and will slip along almost effortlessly.
A price will be given for a rig depending on choice.
Wooden ships comments on this Royal Dart One design
The Royal Dart One Design, not to be confused with the smaller Dart One design was drawn before the War by F Morgan Giles, drawing No 345 and most of the boats were built in his Teignmouth Devon yard in the 1950’s.
The design is similar to the Teign One Design which has a more square fore foot and has some similarities with the Salcombe Yawl, both Morgan Giles designs.
A fleet of these half-deck sailing dinghies sailed and raced under the burgee of the Royal Dart Yacht Club, Kingswear by Dartmouth and there are still many people who have fond memories of sailing these boats 50 years ago.
The RDOD was 16’6” long with a marked rocker to the keel and a rounded fore foot.
The hull was planked in mahogany all copper fastened to steam bent oak timbers on an oak back-bone with a transom stern.
A ply fore deck and side decks increased their capability.
A very heavy galvanised steel centre plate in a mahogany centre-board casing identified by it’s hump-back shape and stabilised by the midships thwart was operated by a wheel gear mechanism turned by a lanyard to the helm aft.
Simple varnished mahogany benches each side back to the transom.
Lifting rudder.
Most boats were varnished inside and out like this one with a painted deck.
Aluminium mast steps on the keel against the angle of the fore deck.
Stainless steel rigging.
Mainsail and jib.
Boom sheets to a bronze track on the transom top edge.
Edgar Cove pram dinghy built as a tender to Yawl No.77, one of the local Salcombe Yawl racing fleet.
Clinker planked in mahogany all copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers. Double width mahogany centreline plank makes the garboards on both sides on an oak back bone with a pair of oak bilge stringers each side. Transom with sculling oar position
Full length stringer to carry the thwarts, copper fastened through the hull.
Oak gunnel reinforced with grown oak knees in the corners. She has had a modern white rubbing strake added at some point in the past.
Three thwarts with rowing positions for the centre and bow thwarts, foot supports for the rowers fastened to the middle sole board.
Tidy little dinghy in very original condition, now in need of stripping and varnishing. This will make an ideal little project for someone as she is easily lifted by two people, can fit on a car roof rack and will not take up much space in the garage.
Wooden ships comments on this Morgan Giles design New build lugsail dinghy
8ft Lug rig sailing dinghy. Lying Devon. £3,500.
A replica of a 1916 Morgan Giles design, the Pip Emma, which Morgan Giles built for his children.
This is a One off new build by ex-Spirit Yachts shipwright Ben Charney. He took the lines off Pip Emma which is kept at the Falmouth Maritme Museum, strengthening her to enable two adults to sail her.
Construction.
7mm Sweet Chestnut planking. Black Walnut transom and stern.
Sweet chestnut rudder, bronze gudgeons and pintels.
Sweet chestnut leeboard, internally weighted with lead.
Rig.
Ash mast and spars, oiled. New tan terylene lug sail. Traditional running rigging, belay pins on forward thwart.
2 x 6’6” oars, oiled. Douglas Fir with Mahogany strips running through and black walnut tips.
2 x sweet chestnut chocks, leather lined to sit boat on out of the water.
She has been built with planks 1mm thicker than the original, a few more ribs, and thicker transom, gunnels and keel.
Wooden ships comments on this McNulty Longstone sailing dinghy
Built in the early 1980’s from mahogany clinker planking on steam bent oak timbers, all copper rivet fastened in the traditional way. Full length stringer riveted right through for strength. Hull is varnished inside and out.
Heavy sheerstrake plank with capping rail and rubbing strake to stiffen the hull. U-shaped thwarts in the aft with a single centre thwart. Scrubbed teak slatted floor boards.
Pivoted centreplate in a mahogany casing, operated with a block and tackle system running forward.
Mahogany rudder with choice of long or short tiller.
Standing lug rig on an unstayed varnished pine mast with varnished pine boom and yard.
Tan terelyne sail with 3:1 block and tackle mainsheet.
Comes with a custom made SBS galvanised combination road trailer with piggy back launching trolley. Purchased by the present owners in 1985 and has been dry sailed and stored undercover ever since. Varnished every year as necessary.
Very tidy dinghy in smart condition ready to go drive away and sail. A cheap and fun way to get out on the water! Original McNulty Brochure from 1987.
A very sweet, totally traditional, classic rowing dinghy, the sort of thing that is so difficult to find these days.
Clinker planked in larch all fastened with copper nails and rooves to steam bent oak timbers on an oak back-bone.
Original heavy section forward knee with new through bolts.
In the rebuild 25’ of planking was replaced, new stem and transom fitted, new sheer strakes, new forward and mid-ships thwarts in oak with oak knees and new sole boards.
New half-lapped oak quarter knees and breast hook.
New stern post up the inside of the transom with new half-lapped oak stern knee.
New bilge stringer carries the thwarts.
The dinghy is painted inside and out with varnished sheer strakes.
The after seating is original in varnished mahogany.
New flat floor bottom boards in way of the after seating with a step in way of the mid-ships thwart to new forward bottom boards clipped to the hull within the retaining stringers.
Solid gunnels with padded rowlock holders at the forward and the mid-ships thwarts to give two rowing positions.
Sculling knotch in the transom.
Leathered stainless steel rowlocks.
Pair of leathered, varnished straight-blade spruce oars.
A brand new traditional clinker planked rowing dinghy by professional Cornish boat-builder James Baker, built to traditional, conventional methods of dinghy building in traditional materials.
Planked in larch, 1o planks per side, all fastened with copper nails and roves to steam-bent oak timbers on an oak back-bone.
Opepe transom cut with a sculling knotch.
Solid gunnels
Thwart stringer.
After seating, mid-ships thwart and fore thwart all in varnished larch and fitted with half-lapped oak knees.
Half-lapped oak quarter knees and breast hook.
Traditional clip-in loose bottom boards in scrubbed larch.
The dinghy is finished in paint exterior with oiled sheer-strake and all oiled interior with varnished seating. Tarred bilge below the bottom boards.
Brass D-section protection strip along the keel.
Galvanised paynter ring inside the stem and through the transom.
Sculling notch in the transom.
Thole pins at mid-ships and forward thwarts to give dual rowing positions.
Pair of varnished, leathered, straight blade spruce oars.
A particularly pretty little pulling boat with good beam and volume allowing her to carry 4 people in safety. Full midships sections carried forward for buoyancy and stability and the sweetest tumble-home to the transom all combine to make this little boat everyone’s idea of what a proper clinker dinghy should be. And all at a very sensible cost.
In building her, thought was given to future fitting of a rig so that it is very possible to install a dagger-board and box, the forward thwart already has a hole cut for a mast and a mast step can be fitted on the keel below and the transom and stern post were built with shipping a rudder in mind.
Wooden ships comments on this Ian Oughtred puffin dinghy
Very pretty Iain Oughtred Puffin dinghy designed by the prolific Oughtred who was responsible for so many successful small boats. A very sweet sheer line with a shape that gives good buoyancy right along her length. This means she rides the seas well and is stable and dry.
White gloss exterior to the hull with varnished internal hull planking and fittings.
Lightweight, strong and in as new condition, the construction means she won’t dry and leak as is common with clinker dinghies. Gorgeous little boat at half the build cost. Able to be lifted by two people she will travel on the roof rack of an estate car very comfortably.
Designer:
Iain Oughtred
Builder:
Jordan boats, Fife
Year:
2005
Construction:
Clinker planked using marine plywood all epoxy glued. Oak backbone with oak stem, grown floors and knees. The strength of the plywood/epoxy combination means she does not require timbers.
Varnished mahogany transom. Douglas fir thwarts with copper rivet fastened oak knees
Mahogany capping rail encapsulating the sheerstrake.
Douglas fir sole boards.
Nice bronze fittings including rowlocks and holders, cleats, fairleads and rudder pintles.
Rig:
Gunter rig with Douglas fir mast and yard.
Tan terylene sail in as new condition.
The rig has been cleverly altered as various teething problems occurred after being commissioned. Nicely leathered as required and the correct sheet leads make it an easy to use rig.
Wooden ships comments on this Mylne Tay class sloop
The 24’ Mylne Tay Class sloop was designed by the great Alfred Mylne as a day racer for the Royal Tay Yacht Club in Perth, Scotland.
It is believed that 3 were built. This is the only known survivor.
We think this one was built in 1898 though a pencilled note on the line drawings can be deciphered “Sails by McKenzie, 1902”.
The yacht was discovered in a barn on the West Coast of Scotland by Wooden Ships in 2000, part of a collection of small boats in a grand house and sold in 2001 to the present owner.
The yacht was complete, very largely original, had had no visible restoration but had been stored ashore on a steel cradle for some years and appeared to have suffered very little apart from being dry.
She was first towed south on a road trailer to the owner’s Hampshire home. Further research revealed that the most suitable man to refit her was John Hill, boat builder in Glasgow so she was towed back to Glasgow and left with him.
12 years later she emerged as a very sweetly restored yacht, ready to be launched and sailed. She has not yet been launched.
The refit was extensively photographed and these photos will be supplied to the new owner.
The original plans are still held by the Mylne Archive, Limekilns, Fife, Scotland.
The hull is believed to be yellow pine, carvel planked with steam bent oak timbers all fastened with copper nails and roves.
Timber floors on every 3rd frame, the floor arms carried well up the sides of the hull.
External iron ballast keel.
Timber rudder with original iron tiller fitted with varnished handle. Rudder stock carried up to deck in a bronze tube. Bronze rudder hangings.
Oak Sampson post on the fore deck.
Chain spurling pipe on the fore deck.
Gunter rig on a varnished spruce mast which can lie on the deck within the length of the boat.
The mast steps through the deck onto the keel.
Solid pine boom with new bronze fittings to a new bronze double mast band.
The yard is in solid varnished pine and still has the original oak jaws.
All new stainless steel wire rigging with swaged terminals. Soft eyes round thumb cleats at the top of the mast.
Braid rope halyards.
Running back-stays on tackles.
Single stay each side to external bronze chain plates.
Single fore stay.
Bar main sheet horse across the aft deck. Double-tailed through blocks on the deck each side.
Headsail sheets on single whip to cleats on the coamings.
In the rebuild, the stem was replaced entirely from stemhead to keel.
Several planks were replaced each side forward up to the stem and aft up into the counter
Several new floors were fitted. The new mid-ships floors thought to be laminated iroko, the forward floors are solid oak.
The original canvas-covered pine board deck over-laid with ¼” marine ply, sheathed with epoxy/glass scrim and painted.
New toe rail all round in varnished mahogany.
The hull was lifted off the keel, the bolts replaced and the keel rebedded.
The cock-pit was rebuilt with new coamings, seats and sole boards.
A new bronze stemhead fitting was made and fitted with a single chain roller and fore stay attachment point.
The mast was stripped and revarnished.
New mast fittings were made in bronze
New bronze chain plates fitted.
The boom was stripped and revarnished.
The yard is fitted with the original grown oak forks, now leathered.
All standing rigging supplied new in stainless steel wire.
All new modern synthetic rope running rigging
New varnished wooden blocks.
Equipment.
New sails – mainsail and jib, have never been set.
New 4-wheel galvanised braked road trailer with light board and spare wheel.
45’ Laurent Giles cutter built in India in 1949. Double diagonal teak planking. Unmistakably Laurent Giles, she is just a big Channel Class. Proven ocean cruising boat, fast and capable. Offered for sale at only £24,000 due to the owners personal circumstances. woodenships.co.uk/sailing-yacht/45-laurent-giles-bermudan-cutter/... See MoreSee Less
After posting some teaser photos of Nell a little while ago, we have now formally put this fine yacht on the market. Nell is a G.L. Watson gaff cutter built on the Clyde in 1887 and completely rebuilt in Normandy, France between 2009 and 2017. This yacht is a totally unique piece of maritime history and is presented in superb condition. Her interior is her most remarkable feature and was designed by her first owner Robert Cowan Robertson. He was an artist based in Glasgow and his interior design was influenced by the fashions of the time with raised and fielded oak panelling, ionic pillasters and most notably stained glass sliding windows covering the portholes. The interior has been restored sympathetically and is largely original apart from some very small areas where damaged joinery needed replacing. The result is magnificent and sets this yacht apart as a unique piece of history. Full details and many photos available on our web site with the following link:woodenships.co.uk/sailing-yacht/g-l-watson-gaff-cutter/#classicboat #classicboatforsale #yachtforsale ... See MoreSee Less
the prolific Oughtred who was responsible for so many successful small boats. A very sweet sheer line with a shape that gives good buoyancy right along her length. This means she rides the seas well and is stable and dry.
