The New Super-SkipjackThis is the latest Stevenson Projects sailboat design and we're really excited about it!
This lightweight 12-footer is simple to build and all the materials, including the rig and sail can be found in one trip to a well-stocked home-center outlet for around $600. Despite the straightforward building steps, the boat has very quick performance. With a daggerboard and a full-length keelson to maintain steering with the daggerboard up, the boat tacks fast yet has great directional stability at speed. The Wing-Dinghy is really a 12' edition of the very fast "International 14's", with some scaled-down lines of the Lake Garda Racers thrown in. The boat features a large, fully-battened mainsail, plus jib and kick-up rudder. The stock hull weighs only 125 lbs, is naturally buoyant, and also has four flotation compartments with air-out vents. Wing-decks on each side provide comfortable, controlled seating when hiking out. More advanced builders might want to use lighter plywood, a carbon-fiber windsurfer mast, and rig a bowsprit and a third "Jibbaker" sail for extreme speed performance.
L.O.A.:12'
BEAM:HULL, 40"/ WINGS,53"
SAIL AREA: 110SQ.FT.
WEIGHT:125LBS
CREW: ONE TO TWO
Click Here for a look at the Wing Dinghy's building sequence and lines.
There is a FREE paper model of the Wing-Dinghy, and you can find it HERE!
The 12' Mini-Cup was designed to be cheap and easy to build, be cartoppable, and still be fast and fun. The hull is a snap to build, and incorporates a lot of timesaving features. Sailing is quick and dependable with a kick-up rudder for easy beaching. Sealed compartments provide enough flotation to capsize, right, and sail away with only a couple of inches of water in the cockpit. The Mini-Cup has been known to give Lasers a run for their money on occasion.
As of April of 2001, the Mini-Cup plans are now available only online as a PDF file which you can download. After 25 years, we finally ran out of the printed plans. We were going to stop offering the Mini-Cup plans, but Mr. Andrew Butchart kindly scanned the old plans and offered them to us to place on our site (thanks Mr. Butchart!) We decided to make the download free, so all you have to do is click below and open the file with Adobe Acrobat.
L.O.A.: 12'
BEAM: 4'
HULL WEIGHT: 125LBS
SAIL AREA: 75 SQ.FT.
CREW: ONE TO TWO
This is a free download of the PDF file.Be warned, however, that this file is nearly 2MB in size, so you should probably have a broadband connection if you want to download this file in any reasonable amount of time!
Please note also that we haven't proofread this PDF file from Mr. Butchart, so they are offered as-is, with no guarantee as to accuracy. In all likelyhood, Mr. Butchart did a fine job and I expect they're great!
Click Here to take a look at the Mini-Cup's structure and shape.
The Ply-Flier is a fast boat. The somewhat narrow hull allows good speed with the low lateen rig, or when rowing and electro-motoring. The 14' hull has a built in trolling motor mount (which is entirely sufficient for this low drag, lightweight boat), outboard oarlocks, and double cockpits for paddling.
L.O.A.:14'
BEAM: 45"
SAIL AREA: 75SQ.FT.
WEIGHT: 135LBS
CREW: ONE TO TWO
OPTIONAL PADDLE, ROW, OR ELECTRIC POWER
Click Here to see a drawing of the Ply-Flier's lines and construction.
The New Super-Skipjack is really a better boat, but the Venerable Skipjack (as it's now known) is still a great project.
This was the boat design that led right into the Weekender, (after we found out how fast it would sail). It's a lightweight 12-footer (150lbs.) with plenty of room, and a salty look that belies its up-to-date performance. Because many builders like the traditional looks of the Weekender, but aren't interested in the cruising features of a cabin, we're reissuing the simpler Skipjack. It's a good, roomy all around boat that's dry in the cockpit even when seas are up a bit. With a kick-up rudder, full length keel like the Weekender, and daggerboard, the little Skipjack is easy to launch and sail. It's been built by youth clubs, beginner-builder college students (one built hers in her apartment bedroom!), and is a favorite family-boat. She uses the same aluminum rig as the Vector Landsailer, but could be set up with a scaled down traditional gaff-rig as on the Weekender.
L.O.A.:13'10"
L.O.D.: 12'
BEAM: 5'
SAIL AREA: 75 SQ.FT.
WEIGHT: 135 LBS
CREW: ONE TO FOUR
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