Welcome to
Campion Sail and Design
These are simply a few pages about some of the small craft - dayboats, racing or sailing dinghies, beach cruisers and canoe yawls, whether balanced lug, gaff or bermudian rigged - that I build - or have built - or have designed - or that are some combination of the three. Based on these are a number of boat and sailing dinghy plans for the home builder to build, from small day-sailers to 'raid' style sail and oar craft suitable for dinghy cruising and a water or sand-ballasted lugger or half-decked gaff cutter. All the sailing dinghies or day sailers are very able performers, and several of the designs - including some of the balanced lug ones - have been club raced successfully over many years against conventional class dinghies - and that is without the help of a favourable handicap or yardstick rating. Although the boats are very diverse, they share one element in common: they are, I believe, among the very best of their type, as I trust the photos below and on the following pages will help make clear. Construction covers glued clinker both with and without ribs, single, double chine and multi-chine stitch and glue, conventional ply construction, and tortured ply, with rigs from fully battened bermudian sails to balanced lugs, hulls from snub-ended praams to double-ended yawls, from development class dinghies to simple traditional style dayboats. There is also a short section on George Holmes and his small canoe yawls from the late nineteenth century. If you are interested in plans for a particular type of craft that is similar to the ones featured on these pages, either for home boatbuilding or to have built, or are interested in Holmes and his original designs, please use the contact details below or on the final page. If you do not see what you are looking for, please ask.
For further information about the plans for the Apple 16 dayboat or cutter and its larger variations, as well as some of the other designs such as the multi chine Iceni 12 and 14 stitch-and-tape sailing dinghy designs, the glued lapstrake dinghy IO 11-12, the stitch and glue conically developed canoe yawl Imp, the four plank stitched seam double ender Campion yawl dayboat, the Apple 13 multi-chine daysailer and the glued clinker or multi-chine rowing praams, together with photos or details and plan prices, follow the relevant links in the table below.
All plans are sent by first class post to addresses in the UK or by airmail world-wide.
Oh, and as for the name of the site, a question that sometimes is asked, it's named after sea campion, a white flower of the foreshore, shingle and sea cliff that flowers in this country throughout the sailing season: not delicate, overly retiring nor particularly pretty, but distinctive, rugged and appealing in a salt-water environment - a bit like my boats, I hope.
Iceni 12, a fast, well balanced, highly manouvrable stitched seam - or stitched bottom panels with glued clinker sides - sailing dinghy with a single balanced lugsail. Detailed plans available. Offsets for conventional construction.
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Apple in various guises: a balanced lug yawl or gaff day sailer, a four or five plank aside, light-weight, inexpensive, stitch and glue open or half-decked sailing dinghy, with or without internal water or lead ballast, with conventional or tumblehome transom, exceptionally well balanced upright or heeled to the gunwale, with good planing performance, a sit-in or sit-out day boat. Comprehensive plans for amateur construction.
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Apple gaff rigged cutter with tumblehome transom, sailing in the Alps - photos courtesy of E. Reinhard.
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Finland Raid and the launching of a lovely 5 plank Swedish Apple, varnished throughout; planking was CNC cut by Jordan Boats of the UK and then shipped to Sweden where the boat was built by its owner, P.Lord. Photo courtesy of P. Lord.
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Imp Canoe Yawl: a conically-developed plywood day sailing double-ender.
Campion Canoe Yawl - heavy displacement ballasted double-ended dayboat.
Pearl
Apple 13 - latest one currently being built in Czechoslovakia. A four plank stitch and tape design. Photo courtesy of Martin Chlad.
Iceni 14 - a roomy, stable sailer for pottering, beach or dinghy cruising. Detailed plans for stitch-and-glue construction with a choice of rigs.
Scow Moth - a conventionally framed, ply over stringers, double-chine tunnel hull scow with self-draining cockpit.
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The above 3 photos courtesy of Robin Stubbs
Iota
Below the IO 11-12, a light seven plank aside multi-chine or glued clinker balanced lug sailing dinghy along traditional lines. Plans include full scale frame patterns, accurate lining off details for clinker planking, and full measurements for the stitch and glue plank patterns.
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EMAIL: td@campionboats.co.uk
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Links:
General small craft listing sites:
For those interested in larger scows:
A small, almost hidden, section of the UK International Moth site dealing with pre-90's non-anorexic Moths [for the feats and glories of less-is-more, flit around and be truly amazed]:
A very small but fascinating handful of photos of sailing canoes and canoe yawls from the nineteenth century:
A cornucopia of boats and all things boat related - a huge and varied selection, from the ultra simple to the highly sophisticated, with articles to match:
