Daysailers

Penny Fee is a classic British wherry reinterpreted for glued-lapstrake construction—or, as her designer Iain Oughtred would say, clinker. This building method is well-suited to amateur construction—materials are easily obtainable,...

Here we have a nice glued-lapstrake double-ender. It will sail and row well, and should make for an excellent camp-cruiser. Designer Iain Oughtred based this hull on the Shetland Ness...

There’s something archetypical about Scandinavian-designed boats. They seem to speak to something inside us, whispering “I am what a boat’s supposed to look like.” This seems especially true when a...

Created out of a desire to provide young sailors with able boats of their own at a reasonable price, the O-boats as a class were created in 1921. The class...

As the refinements of the Swampscott dory type reached its zenith, the need arose to depart more distinctly from the workboat origins—where rowing was as important as sailing—and to develop...