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Go to Sailing Texas classifieds for current sailboats for sale The Caledonia Yawl sailboat for sale The Caledonia Yawl, designed by Iain Oughtred, is a large, versatile, and eye-catching double ender with a breath-taking sheer. Based on an inshore fishing boat from the Shetland Islands, this 19’9” lapstrake hull decries her powerful Viking ancestry. Stable, dry and comfortable for four to six adults. Asking $10,000 Location: Yorktown, VA.

Particulars:

Length: 19 ft. 6 in. Beam: 6’ 4” Draft CB up: 11” Draft CB down: 3’6” Displacement: apox 900 lbs Sail area: 164 sq ft Propulsion: Sail & Oar Hull Material: Okume plywood Wood Builder: Built by owner Year Built: 2016

Built with top quality materials including: Okume, Sapele, Garapa, Doug Fir, MAS adhesives, Interlux coatings, bronze and stainless hardware. Built to plans from Wooden Boat Magazine, designed by Ian Oughtred. Plans included (complete set). Two cavernous decked over ends to hold gear and provide emergency flotation.

Masts and Spars:

Constructed of Douglas Fir, hollow mainmast, mizzenmast, main yard, main boom, mizzen boom, and boomkin. Mainmast can be stepped in alternate position and sailed without the mizzen if desired.

Sails and Rigging:

All sails and rigging in good condition, ready to sail. Mainsail with three reefing points, mizzen with one reef, ball bearing blocks throughout the rig, Custom “rig bag” that contains the entire rig and sails with exception of the main mast. No standing rigging super fast to set up and go.

Kick up rudder with Norwegian tiller (push to go port, pull to go starboard, ability to sit in any area of the boat). Yawl rig sails itself, just trim the mizzen until you have neutral helm and relax.

Centerboard:

Wooden centerboard with 30 lbs of lead in the end (no hold down line to cause damage if you touch bottom just gravity and a pivot) leading edge fiberglass reinforced.

Ground Tackle:

25 lb fisherman anchor and custom tie down chocks in the bilge, 10’ stainless steel chain, stainless swivel, 150 ‘ of nylon rode.

10’ oars custom built from Ash, bronze oar locks.

King “the saltwater trailer” double galvanized single axle trailer with bunks and spare wheel, threaded Vortex bearing covers (water has never gotten in the bearings). 2” coupler, about 1200 lbs trailering weight.

Additional Gear:

Inflatable beach rollers (Makes it easy to move the boat up the beach) Foot pump for rollers Mooring lines Spare boat plugs Two fishing rod holders (used for halibut poles in Alaska)

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Designer - Iain Oughtred

Construction - Glued Lapstrake (clinker) with centerboard and pivoting rudder L.O.A - 19’9”  Beam - 6’4” Rig Options - Lug Yawl (Balanced lug main and bermudan mizzen),  Lug Sloop,   Gunter Yawl and Gunter Sloop Engine - 2hp Honda 4 stroke. This engine has enough power to push the boat just over 5kts in flat water at 2/3 throttle. The motor is also lightweight (just over 12kg) and is air cooled removing the need to flush the engine cooling system after use.  

The Caledonia Yawl, designed by Iain Oughtred, is a large, versatile, and eye-catching double ender with a breathtaking sheer. Based on an inshore fishing boat from the Shetland Islands, this 19'9" double-ended, lapstrake hull pays homage to her notable Viking ancestry (featured in WoodenBoat 183-185 ). This modern version is built with epoxy-glued marine plywood, and is quick, maneuverable, easy to trailer, and requires low maintenance. Her simple traditional rig belies a wonderful, seaworthy craft whose performance routinely dazzles observers. It is an extremely easy boat to sail and is easily sailed one up. The custom trailer is designed for easy single handed launch and retrieve. The boat is ideally suited to day sailing and beach/camp cruising for up to 6 adults.

Please note, the Caledonia Yawl is not available in kit form.

This particular vessel is the new 7 strake decked version of the Caledonia yawl with the addition of side bench lockers for storage and extra buoyancy. We have probably built more Caledonia Yawls than any other business in Australia so for further information or if you would like to have one of these beautiful boats built please  contact us .  

Denman Marine specialises in custom wooden boat building and repair. We utilise both traditional methods such as carvel or clinker and modern methods such as strip planking, cold molding or clinker plywood. We can custom build to any design - for example those by Iain Oughtred, David Payne, Paul Gartside, John Welsford, Mark Bowdidge, Francois Vivier, Atkin , Bolger B&B, etc. We are a small team of Australian wooden boat builders based in Kettering Tasmania, and are the sole agents for Chesapeake Light Craft (USA) wooden kit boats in Australia and New Zealand, as well as Swallow Yachts , and Barton Marine products (UK). Denman Marine are proud builders of Wooden Boats in Australia.

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Ian Oughtred Caledonia Yawl

• Designer: Oughtred, Ian
• Builder: Jonny Burke, Boatbuilder, Scotland
• Location: Glasgow, Scotland
• Length on deck: 20'
• Draft: 4'6 plate down

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The Caledonia Yawl was designed by Ian Oughtred, a prolific designer of small open boats, and has been one of his most popular designs.  This example was built to the highest standards by professional shipwright Johnny Burke in Scotland in 2013 and has been used on only 6 occasions around the Clyde and in Norfolk.

The Caledonia yawl has gained a reputation as a very capable and seaworthy boat suitable for coastal sailing in favourable weather.  The design was altered slightly on this boat with the addition of another laminated frame in way of the chain plates to increase the strength on the hull.

She has built in buoyancy tanks as well as air bags for safety, and comes as a complete package on a virtually new SBS galvanised road trailer so is ready to tow away.

Length on Deck                 20′

Beam                                    6′

Draft                                      4’6″ (centreplate down)

Construction

Clinker planked hull built using 9mm Robbins Elite and Super Elite marine plywood and glued using West system epoxy.

Laminated stem and keel.

The deck is made of 6mm Robins Elite plywood, sheathed externally in epoxy glass cloth and finished in white deck paint.

There is a varnished Iroko coaming all round with a varnished sheer strake and small varnished oak rubbing strake.

Buoyancy tanks either side double as thwarts with varnished Iroko tops.

Tiller steering on a stern post hung rudder.  Rudder is a lifting type to enable the boat to float in shallow water.  Curved tiller to allow it to work around the mizzen mast.

Sheathed plywood centreboard casing with a weighted centreplate, lifted with an 8:1 tackle.

Varnished Iroko slatted sole boards.

All deck fittings made of bronze where possible.

Rigged as a gunter yawl on hollow varnished keel stepped larch masts.

Varnished wooden boom and gunter yard, plus a varnished bumpkin for the mizzen.

Stainless steel standing rigging with swaged eyes.  Held with lanyards to external bronze chain plates.

Single shroud each side, single forestay to the stem head and twin running backstays on the main mast.  Mizzen mast is unstayed.

Bronze mast fittings all round.  Pin rail at the base of the mast to carry the falls.

Mainsail, mizzen and headsail all in red terylene and made by W B Lietch of Tarbet, all in as new condition.

4 x lifejackets

Bruce anchor with chain and warp

Small inflatable dinghy with oars

Boom crutch

2013 SBS road trailer

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In spring 2021 I was over a year without a boat since I sold SCYLD, and my sea-legs became a bit restless. So I decided to actively search for a new clinker boat, but this time a more modern adaptation of the Nordic boat building tradition: One of Iain Oughtred’s plywood-clinker constructions, a Caledonia Yawl. One was for sale in the Netherlands and I did not hesitate to go there .

The boat-design of the Caledonia Yawl by the Australian (now: Scottish) naval architect Iain Oughtred combined traditionalism with performance. Inspired by fishing boats of the Shetland Isles, which were essentially of Norwegian descent, this type is the modern equivalent of a double-ender that is suitable for cruising and the so-called “Raids”, i.e. festivals for traditional open boats that are propulsed only under sails and oars. While the shape of the hull and the type of rig is traditional, the materials are not: It is a glued lapstrake construction of marine plywood, making the boat considerably lighter and thus easy to handle. Another advantage is the shallow draft as a result, making it the ideal cruising dinghy access shallow bays and lagoons, and to land on picturesque sand beaches to make a campfire.

LOA – 19′ 6″ Beam – 6′ 4-1/2″ Draft (cb up) – 11″ (cb down) – 3′ 6″ Weight – about 450 lbs. Sail Area: Balanced lug: 164 sq ft Gaff Yawl: 170 sq ft

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19' 6" caledonia yawl.

Derived from traditional Norwegian small craft, this handsome double-ender performs as well as a daysailer and beach cruiser.

Clean, frameless, glued-lapstrake plywood hull means, easy construction, happy trailering, and low maintenance.

Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood.

No lofting is required.

Plans include 7 sheets.

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19' 6" Caledonia Yawl II

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by Iain Oughtred

LOA - 19' 6" LWL - 16' 1" Beam - 6' 4-1/2" Hull weight - 450 lbs, all up 650 lbs Displ. WL - 1090 lbs Sail Area - 164 sq ft Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood Skill level: Intermediate No Lofting required Plans include 10 sheets, plus 17 pages of additional notes from the designer.

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Caledonia II  was featured in   Boat Design Quarterly #47 .

This is the 7 plank per side, which some folks will feel is a tad easier to build, and that garboard plank will be narrower, and easier to fit. Rig options: balanced lug or gunter.

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The CY II plans are great and very complete. thank you so much. I am impressed with the Iain Oughtred designs and double enders. I have CY I plans also and from the CY blog reading find the CY II has a slightly flatter bottom for improved sailing performance per Iain. The CY family has performed well in the R2AK and it is an arear that I would love to sail. I have cruised the Inside Passage from Ketchikan to Skagway and a small boat is ideal for such a cruise, but keep a watch for the large bears. The fishing is fantastic. All this info is for a small boat that can do it all in AK. I have some of the plywood in house and more items to order to start construction. I need a larger garage. Thanks WB Jerry L Weltzin Zumbbro Falls, MN

Can’t wait to begin. -20 F as I type this with -33 F windchill. Going to have to wait until springtime to begin construction. In the meantime I study the plans and source materials...all while wearing my wool slippers, sipping coffee, sitting in my reading chair. Thank you for you prompt response to my order.

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This project was a 19.5' Caledonia Yawl designed by Ian Oughtred. He is from the Isle of Skye in Scotland which is also where my own scottish forebearers hail from. I have a grand daughter name Isla so the boat is named "Isle 'a' Skye" The design is a double-ended yawl.

This was the third and largest boat undertaken to date. Its progress was interrupted several times for various reasons including Covid.

The build was also slowed by my obsession to make it pretty much self-rescuing and at the same time create as much storage as possible for camp cruising. This required the creation of 12 independent tanks, one each in the bow and stern, and five each along each side under the seat and full deck. In effect, the cockpit is surrounded entirely by these buoyancy/storage tanks and yet still has plenty of seating and room for several adults. The tanks not only provide a lot of dry storage space but should provide enough buoyancy in the event of a capsize so that righting the boat after a capsize results in a boat that is not still swamped with water and is again ready to be occupied and sailed.

Other ways in which this build departed from the open boat plans provided by designer Oughtred are as follows:

Eliminated the aft-protruding Boomkin spar used to sheet the mizzen sprit sail by changing to a gaff mizzen sail which allows sheeting on the rudder head itself and I believe improves the boat's overall appearance.

The aforementioned 12 Buoyancy Tanks not only provide safety and strength but also provided ample dry storage.

Raised all-around Canvas Deck for comfortable standing/ seating/ hiking with Open Rail while retaining lower row Interior Bench Seating.

Option for full Rope Steering or Norwegian tiller.

Spring-loaded Partner Toggles for easier main mast raising and lowering.

The boat was shown at the August 2021 Wooden Boat Show in Mystic, CT in the Concours d' Elegance category where it received an Honorable Mention Award.

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The Caledonia Yawl was inspired by the Shetland Sixerns, which themselves were developed f ro m the beautiful Norwegian open boats. It is very adaptable design; the boat is easily rigged and sailed single-handed, and is also spacious, stable, and comfortable for family sailing. With the generous sail area, efficiently set up, she will perform well in sheltered waters, and will keep sailing when many  other  boats will be ha ss ling with the outboard or taking to the oars. And with her great reserve  buoyancy , full ends and strong sheer, she is an exceptionally  sea kindly  little  v essel, quite capable of serious coastal cruising (in experienced ha nd s of course), and will stand up to a bit of heavy weather with relative comfort and safety. The  construction  is a simplified form of lapstrake plywood, without frames or stringers. I t  f orm s a strong tight hull with a clean interior.  I t  is planked upside-down over  temporary  moulds, and is actually less work, and contains many fewer parts than a conventional chine plywood hull; and it turns out a much  better-looking  shape .    

Length: 19′ 6″

Beam:  6’2″, draft: 25.5″, weight: 500lbs, sail area: 164 sq ft (lug) 170 sq ft (mizzen), time to build (estimate): 360 hours.

• ½” sheet stock moulds cut to size and notched for the planking  
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• 9mm planking cut to size and machined traditional sloped end scarfs  
• 9mm centerboard case  
• Full size Mylar templates for the inner and outer stem & stern  
• 9mm bulkheads  
• 6mm decking  
• Three pieces of 12mm meranti for the centerboard, with milled foils on both sides  
• Rudder is 2 pieces of 12mm and one piece of 6mm meranti  
• Rudder cheeks and filler pieces are from 9mm okoume  

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 For “Part 1” of this series, we revisit our up-close look at the Caledonia Yawl and why we love her…

We were so inspired by the Caledonia Yawl that we decided build one to add to the OCH fleet. The videos in this series will take you from start to finish building a Caledonia Yawl. In Part 1, Geoff Kerr takes us for a spin aboard his 19’ Caledonia Yawl NED LUDD. These boats are easy to build, unusually light and strong, and free from leaks. We are attracted to her lines that are reminiscent of traditional Norwegian work boats. This is a small boat with endless possibilities – and that’s what we are about at OffCenterHarbor.com.

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14 Responses So Far to “ How To Build the Caledonia Yawl, Part 1 – A Good Boat, Up-Close ”

William Gehring says:

I took Geoff’s “Building the Ness Yawl” at the WB school. Great course and exceptional teacher. Then took John Brooks “Finishing Out Small Boats”, another great offering. Then I bought plans for the CY and spent the next five years building in my driveway. It appears in Launchings section of WB #268. I turned 73 when Kohana was launched. This video series by Geoff saved my bacon on many occasions.

jan labij says:

Nice boat, simple rig – what’s not to like. Although I had one yawl, and that was enough for one lifetime.

Charles Neuman says:

I like the rowing option, and I’d gladly row back to port if the wind dies. However, I’m often in a situation where the wind is 10-15 mph with gusts to 20, and I have to go directly upwind to get home. I doubt that’s rowable (can anyone verify?). My small outboard would come in handy in a situation like that. The designed motor well doesn’t allow the motor to kick up, and I wouldn’t want to keep the prop in the water. Another option is having the motor attached to a gunwale near the stern if it can, or attached to a bracket that is attached to the aft part of the boat somehow. I’ve seen various options on the internet. Anyone have any experience to share? If I could solve the motor question, then this would probably be the boat I want to build. I had been looking at Welsford’s Pathfinder, too, but now I’m leaning more toward the Caledonia Yawl.

Steve Stone says:

Hi Charles. Rowing is definitely not an option into a breeze in the CY. She doesn’t do bad sailing to windward, but an engine would be the ticket and there are others with more experience on that than me. Good options for a torquedo either in a well or on the rail. The right engine can come out of the well when not in use and stowed away.

Geoff Kerr says:

The motor wel,l as designed, fits the boat nicely; it is not obtrusive as far as interior logistics. It fits a 2.5 hp nicely and that is more than enough power. Simply lift the ob out and stow it under the aft thwart when not in use, and you are no longer dragging a prop while sailing. I build a liner box with a faired bottom to fill the well, and with a lid that becomes a handy catch-all locker.

At the request of past customers I have on occasion armored and blocked up the rail to allow clamping an electric motor directly to the side of the boat, and also once fabricated a very sleek S.S. bolt-on bracket for a canoe style mount. Those were useful solutions too, but I find the idea of sailing around with a motor hanging over the side of the boat appalling, not to mention just waiting to foul the mainsheet.

I agree that one will not get anywhere trying to row to windward in any breeze. That said I’ve sailed Ned Ludd for 24 years now and have yet to buy an outboard. The boat sails wonderfully, even in light air that has other motoring, and at the other end of the specturm I’ve sailed home to windward in some pretty snotty conditions. My summary suggestions are: sail a lot, row when it is calm and you must, and if lifestyle and local conditions demand, buy a 2.5 hp four stroke outboard and build in a motorwell.

Thanks for the tips, folks. I use both a Honda 2.5 and the Torqeedo 1003 on my 19′ fiberglass boat, so I’m comfortable with how they would work in a boat like this. I like the idea of simply pulling the motor out of the well when not in use. Having to stand up and move an outboard around when the water is choppy is not ideal, but I sense the CY has enough stability. Plus, both of those motors are light enough that it could work. It’s just another task that can be perfected over time.

John Simlett says:

I keep watching this video!!!!! I can’t sail … but what the heck … t I must build one, and learn to sail later. afterall, I’ve got youth on my side, i’m not 80 for 18 months yet.

got to finish my lobster boat first …. the boss says!!

Mac McCoy says:

What is Geoff Kerr’s ph.# Or business # ?

Wondering if he would build a Caledonia Yawl for me?

Larry Cheek says:

See Geoff’s Facebook page, where he’s doing business as “Two Daughters Boatworks.” His contact info is in there.

Hi Mac. For Off Center Guides, you can always go to their Guide/bio page via the ‘Guides’ link above. And, we’ll always put a link to the person’s website below the video in the “Navigate Further” section. In this case, you can find a link to Geoff Kerr’s Two Daughter’s Boatworks facebook page above, where you’ll find his contact info.

James Okelly says:

I am rebuilding a 40 year old westsail 32 from the hull up and I have decided to build one of these along-side her for daysails. That video series was the most awesome watch I have laid my eyes on, boatbuilding-wise.

David Jeffery says:

One explained, it becomes obvious. But I needed the explanation. Many thanks. –David

On the Caledonia Yawl does the tiller stick remain on port, or does one need to work it round the mizzen mast when tacking…and especially gybing? Thanks.

Hi David. No need to work it around the mizzen mast. It stays on one side, but the flexible joint allows the tiller to follow you wherever you are in the boat (within reach given the length of course). That movement of the tiller to follow the skipper is one of the pluses of that design.

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Thoughts on the sanderling, pocketship, caledonia yawl, phoenix iii, and san juan 21.

We assumed, when surveying Small Craft Advisor readers about boats they own and enjoy sailing, that the responses would be dominated by maybe three dozen small-boat designs, so it was a shock when 346 readers shared their thoughts about more than 200 different designs!

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This time we feature six designs—four that can be home-built of wood, along with two older fiberglass production-boat designs…one that’s been available longer than almost any camp-cruising sailboat. —Eds

MARSHALL SANDERLING

A traditional-looking large-volume boat admired by SCA readers is the Marshall Sanderling, an 18-foot catboat—one of the oldest continuously produced fiberglass boats on the market, with more than 850 hulls finished by Marshall Marine since the start of production in 1962.

Like most catboat designs, the Sanderling offers a huge cockpit and roomy cabin when compared to most other daysailers and camp cruisers in the 18-foot range.

With an overall length of 18'-2,"beam of 8'-6" and draft of 19” with the centerboard up and 4'-4" with the board down, the spacious Sanderling can daysail five or six comfortably, overnight or cruise a couple, and deal with almost all kinds of conditions.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Caledonia yawl from grapeview boatworks.

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Getting out of line.

W hen I decided to follow the route Nathaniel Bishop took from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cedar Key, Florida, in the winter of 1874–75, I chose not to build a replica of his CENTENNIAL REPUBLIC, the sneakbox at the heart of his book, Four Months in a Sneak-Box . I was drawn to build instead the Barnegat Bay sneakbox detailed in Chapelle’s American Small Sailing Craft because it had an intriguing feature: a daggerboard set 10″ to starboard, on the outside edge of the cockpit coaming. Bishop’s boat had its daggerboard just aft of the mast, on the centerline, where you’d expect it to be. Chapelle offered good reasons for moving the board to one side.

The offset daggerboard of my sneak box convinced me that there were no significant advantages to having the elements of the sailing rig all set on the centerline. I slept with my feet tucked under the foredeck. I occasionally put the hatch over the cockpit opening for warmth or to keep the rain out. The boat was only 14″ deep, so with the lid on I could understand why the sneakbox was known to some as “the devil’s coffin.”

There would be no smiles trying to get to sleep with a centerboard hogging the middle of the sneakbox.

“The gunners often spent a couple of days away from home, during which they lived and slept in their small skiffs. The cockpit had to be large enough and sufficiently clear of obstruction to permit stretching out in some comfort. When the daggerboard was introduced, it was decided that its case must not obstruct the cockpit, so it was placed well off center in the boat—just outboard of the cockpit coaming. Such an unorthodox position of a centerboard did not disturb the Jerseyman, whose artistic regard for symmetry and been blunted by long years of acceptance of a single lee board.”

I didn’t expect to do much sailing on the first two legs of the journey—the Ohio River and the Lower Mississippi—but I would be sleeping aboard. Moving the daggerboard case out of the way was worth a try, even if it meant losing a measure of sailing performance on the last leg, along the Gulf of Mexico where I’d find wind and open water.

I cold-molded my sneakbox, so it was an easy matter to put the daggerboard case off-center. Monocoque construction, whether cold-molded, stitch-and-glue, glued-lapstrake plywood, or strip-built, carries its strength in the unified skin of the hull, lending itself to moving daggerboard and centerboard cases without having to work around traditional planks and frames. I just cut slots in the sneakbox’s deck and hull, and glued the trunk in.

I set out from Pittsburgh in November of 1983 and spent many nights sleeping aboard my sneakbox, LUNA. I appreciated the room I had to stretch out as well as the protection the fully decked boat offered from wind and rain. When I reached the Gulf I did a lot of sailing, including a day’s 62-mile sail around Big Bend, the open-water passage along the Florida coast that bends from its panhandle to its peninsula. I was never able to feel any difference between tacks with the offset daggerboard. Whatever difference there might be, it was less than the difference I could feel between having the sprit mainsail creased around the sprit on one tack, and curved smoothly to leeward of it on the other. I was sold on the offset board, and I haven’t built a boat with a board on the centerline since then.

The off-center-board case in my Caledonia yawl supports the starboard bench. It’s so inconspicuous that I often forget to lower the board when I set sail.

My Caledonia yawl has its “off-center-board” case set 12″ to starboard. The wide garboards of the glued-lapstrake plywood made the move fairly simple and left the center of the cockpit clear. On rare occasion, driving the yawl hard to weather on the starboard tack, I’ve been able to see the top of the board come clear of the water if I lean over the windward rail, but I’ve never detected any increase in leeway or decrease in speed.

The center of the yawl’s cockpit is clear but for one bench/bulkhead combination. I can move from end to end to end very quickly with my shins intact.

My cruising garvey also carries its off-center-board to starboard, leaving a clear path down the middle of the boat. I carried the off-center idea a step further and moved the mizzenmast as far to starboard as I could, 18″ off the centerline, to give me room to work with the rudder and the outboard motor. The garvey is no racehorse under sail, but it is well mannered even with the main and rudder on the centerline and the mizzen and board offset.

The mizzen mast on my garvey is set to starboard, clear of the tiler and the outboard. The boat’s off-center-board is also to starboard.

The outboard-powered canal boat wasn’t designed to sail, but with a leeboard (set 36″ to starboard) and a mast (set 18″ to port) we can rig for silent running without interfering with the normal use of the boat, which includes diving into the water from the cabin-top catwalk.

GYPSY SOUL brightens up a dreary winter landscape.

S cotty Pugh of Sardis, Tennessee, grew up riding dirt bikes and later indulged his passion for motorcycles as he collected vintage Harley-Davidsons. But a ride gone wrong landed him a hospital trauma ward for a week and he was forced to consider something else to focus his interest upon. “Wooden boats,” he thought, “will keep me entertained.”

Scotty’s shop was an old rural grocery store that was part of his childhood. He couldn’t stand to see it torn down, so he bought it and rebuilt it as his boat shop. The photographs on the wall are a mix of motorcycles and wooden boats.

After he built his first small wooden boat there was no turning back. GYPSY SOUL, a Caledonia Yawl, is his fourth boat. While he had acquired a lot of the necessary skills building the first three boats, “the road to building the yawl was not without some curves and potholes.” Work was interrupted when he was installing floorboards and “acting like I was 20 again, inflamed a muscle in my hip and mashed a sciatic nerve. That took me down for couple weeks.” While work on the yawl was slow, it was not without its daily rewards. “The more I’m buried in technology at work, the deeper I bury myself in wooden boats at home.” Scotty’s career has been in the highly technical field of robotic welding, so he counts the time he spends with a hand plane as meditation.

As engineer and longtime woodworker, Scotty is, by his own admission, “a bit ticky about correctness, so construction took awhile.” His tidy work with the epoxy fillets paid off in the bright-finished boat.

Scotty spent five years building GYPSY SOUL, often working with Juilio, his sweetheart at the beginning of the project and his wife by its conclusion. One cold morning in December last year, Juilio called from work: “If I can get the afternoon off can we launch the boat?” The yawl was not quite finished, but close enough that it was ready to sail. Scotty called his parents to announce the plans to launch, and his 83-year-old mother insisted that they wait for her to get to the ramp. She warned him that if she wasn’t “standing on the dock when the boat hit the water there would likely be adjustments to the will.” Scotty agreed to delay the launch long enough to give his parents time to get to the lake. “Pop has some neat old tools,” thought Scotty, “so it wasn’t worth the risk to rush.”

The most recent version of the Caledonia design calls for seven strakes; Scotty opted for the original four-strake hull.

At the ramp, GYPSY SOUL slipped into the water for the first time. Scotty and Juilio hadn’t sailed a lug rig or a mizzen before, but hauled in the main sheet and took off. “We peeled off into a close-hauled beat, sailed across on a beat, and back on a run. Upwind she is a filly! On a reach you could pull a water-skier. What wonderful big-block power those sails gather. Downwind, stable, light on the tiller, a wonderful gurgle of chines underwater.” His mother, who had never seen a boat sail, said, “When the wind took that boat, the way it moved was like magic.”

Scotty has two cat-rigged boats and two sloop-rigged boats, but the Caledonia’s lug rig with the mizzen is his favorite by far.

Since the winter launching, Scotty and Juilio have sailed many of the lakes and rivers of West Tennessee, and while GYPSY SOUL’s home waters are well inland, she’s not landlocked. Scotty and Juilio have entertained the idea of driving 45 minutes from home to launch in Pickwick Lake, make their way to the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, and in a week’s time sail out into the Gulf of Mexico.

GYPSY SOUL does most of her sailing on the Tennessee River, but she was built with island-hopping the Florida Keys in mind.

After a 25-year career, Scotty is ready for an early retirement so he can devote his time to boats. “I don’t want to build wooden boats for a living, but for the poetry of it.”  While there will be other boats, GYPSY SOUL is tied to an important time in his life. “I had my house rented to pretty young gal who turned out to love classic literature and history. I taught her to sail, we built GYPSY together, got married, and the small-boat thing fits us and our lives perfectly. I may be buried in GYPSY.”

When Scotty taught Juilio how to sail, she was quick to pick up the skills and “the touch.” She’s handling the main sheet here, but Scotty notes: “She’s the best helms man or woman I’ve ever sailed with.”

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