Pearl: a gaff, lug or gunter rigged dayboat
Pearl 16, a day sailer or beach cruiser, half-decked, with multichine stitch and tape or glued clinker-over-stringers construction. The hull is of 6mm ply, the deck and cockpit of 5 or 6mm, with centre-board and dagger-board options. The cockpit has various permutations, from deep and open, to reduced volume, through to self-draining, but all with built-in buoyancy.
Pearl, with either a lug main and mizzen, gunter yawl or gaff cutter rig, is beamier, flatter floored, fuller transomed than Apple with lead and water or water ballast. Annie is similar, but 18 foot LOD. See the Apple cutter photos for a similar but smaller version of the rig and general layout. Detailed plans for Pearl - for both glued clinker construction and for multichine stitch and glue, with various cockpit layouts - are available, as well as alternative sail plans - a total of 14 A1 sheets and 26 A4 sheets of notes and keyed detail. A high resolution and detailed A1 PDF study plan of one lug main and mizzen layout and sail plan, plus another of the gunter yawl with general layout and sail plan is £7 or, for two A1 printed study sheets, £12. A small watermarked one without construction detail and only a simple sketched general layout and with much reduced and very basic gaff sail plan detail is here.
LOD: 4936 mm or 16ft 23/8"; LOA: 6036 mm or 19ft 95/8"; BOA: 1820mm or 5ft 113/4"; maximum designed displacement: 575 kg, minimum 330kg; hull weight: 135 - 160 kg; ballast: 75 - 125 kg; sail area - gaff rig (nominal): 123 sq ft - 11.4 sq m. or 136 sq ft - 12.65 sq m; lug and yawl approximately 11.5
There is no guess work or trial and error in the lining out of the planks for the clinker version as the position of the plank edges is clearly defined on the plans.
Lines, offsets and strake panel offsets only [though with 3 sail plans] are available for Annie, a larger version of Pearl.
An exceptionally nice slightly modified version of the Annie is being built by Ian Davidson, a student at The British Boat Building Academy at Lyme Regis. After Ian's full lofting which went very smoothly, conversion to strip-planking has been made under the guidance of the tutors at the Academy, the results as clearly shown in the photos speaking for themselves. Timber for the planking was converted by Ian, the milling - including the bead and cove edges - taking two days to complete.
Two versions of a 19ft Apple/Pearl cross for fast, spirited day-sailing with a gaff cutter rig are also available as lines and offsets.
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