12ft Peapod

[smithb9]

I've been toying with a design of a 12ft Peapod, with influence from many different similar designs.

sort of a sequel to this thread I suppose: http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...-Dinghy-design

Here's the lines I'm currently working with:



12ft LOA , 53" beam

One question that I have, is it completely silly to rig this as a lug yawl? It seems there aren't many (if any) designs in this length with such a rig, which makes me assume that its a bit much, but I don't see why it couldn't work either.



as shown - 59sf main, 9sf mizzen

thoughts?

[rbgarr]

That's a very small peapod and fwiw I agree with your silliness assessment.

[sailoar]

It may seem small, but the plumb ends give it a waterline no shorter than that of Beach Pea, which is a well-regarded boat. Also, yours has much flatter floors, firmer bilges, plumber sides, and more depth than Beach Pea, which should let it stand up to sail better at some small cost to rowing ease. I like it! As to the yawl, why not? It's been used on much lighter sailing canoes for 150 years, although they tend to be 14-16 feet long - maybe a sail expert could tell us if there needs to be a certain distance between the masts for the mizzen to be of good use. Just today, I was looking at my set of Oughtred 10' Acorn plans, thinking of doubling the forward 4 1/2 stations to make an 11 1/2' peapod.

[smithb9]

It may seem small, but the plumb ends give it a waterline no shorter than that of Beach Pea, which is a well-regarded boat. Also, yours has much flatter floors, firmer bilges, plumber sides, and more depth than Beach Pea, which should let it stand up to sail better at some small cost to rowing ease. I like it! As to the yawl, why not? It's been used on much lighter sailing canoes for 150 years, although they tend to be 14-16 feet long - maybe a sail expert could tell us if there needs to be a certain distance between the masts for the mizzen to be of good use. Just today, I was looking at my set of Oughtred 10' Acorn plans, thinking of doubling the forward 4 1/2 stations to make an 11 1/2' peapod.

hah, that's how this whole idea got started. I saw a picture of "Big Food" on here, and immediately thought it was one of the coolest looking boats I've seen. The blackfly dinghy design by the Bruce guy who posts here has a very appealing look to the bow, so I originally was looking at doubling the bow sections to make a double ender out of that design. The above lines that I came up with are mostly Matinicus, with inspiration from the Davis Peapod, and influenced by the space restrictions I'll be working with.