Rowing boat

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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.