Paul Gartside Skylark

Wooden Ships Comments on this Paul Gartside Skylark

Paul Gartside Skylark sailing dinghy built by Jim Higginson at the Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy in 2013.

The Skylark is a beautiful looking dinghy with a wide transom carrying her beam a long way aft making the boats buoyant and stable.  The wide and flat aft section of the hull gives good buoyancy to stop the hull digging in and giving them an excellent turn of speed.  An ideal boat to explore and adventure around lakes and rivers in true Swallows and Amazons style.

Bought from the builder by the present owners and kept in Devon for summer sailing with the family.  Wintered inside every year and left with an all over cover during the summer to protect the brightwork.

She was launched with a standing lug rig, but the owners had made a gunter sloop rig to the original Gartside plans by a professional boat builder with excellent condition Jeckells sails.

A very pretty dinghy built to a high standard with superb materials.  One look at the tight grain of the douglas Fir planking shows just how much care went into the build of this boat.

Length                            14’1”

Beam                               5’10”