Pearl - a yawl, sloop or cutter rigged dinghy
Pearl 16, a stable 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. This is a relatively light displacement boat designed for trailer-sailing for a couple of adults with a lightly ballasted hull or for the single-hander with a well- ballasted one.
Pearl, with either a lug main and mizzen, gunter yawl or gaff cutter rig, is beamier, flatter floored, fuller transomed design than Apple with the option of 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 18 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 £10 or, for two A1 printed study sheets, £13 plus £2 p/p.
A nice photo of Pearl's larger sister Annie with the gaff cutter rig can be seen on Alistair Gary Thompson's Herreschoff 12 build blog
here.
On a page from the In the Boatshed Blog
here.
A photo of Annie on the Boat Building Academy of Lyme's Facebook page
here.
'Pearl' with standard bermudian sail plan. Off-the-shelf or season-old ex-racing 'wayfarer' sails may be used if wished for inexpensive fitting out, as an alternative, to give the widest possible choice of nearly-new or used equipment. Far better to trim costs on items that can easily and simply be replaced at a later date than compromise on plywood or timber, if needs must. Sail area: 165 sq ft or 15.34sq m.
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
Lines for a larger version of Pearl - Annie - can be found here and a
photo of Annie on the Boat Building Academy of Lyme's Facebook page here
The beginnings of an exceptionally fine build in the USA can be seen here.
