Available
2013 Jim Higginson Paul Gartside Skylark
devon
£5,750 inc. VAT
Engine
-
Total Power
-
Engine Hours
NA
Class
Sail Dinghy
Length
4.29m (14.07ft)
Year
2013
Model
Paul Gartside Skylark
Capacity
Boat Details
Description
Wooden Ships Comments on this Paul Gartside Skylark
Paul Gartside Skylark sailing dinghy built by Jim Higginson at the Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy in 2013.
The Skylark is a beautiful looking dinghy with a wide transom carrying her beam a long way aft making the boats buoyant and stable. The wide and flat aft section of the hull gives good buoyancy to stop the hull digging in and giving them an excellent turn of speed. An ideal boat to explore and adventure around lakes and rivers in true Swallows and Amazons style.
Bought from the builder by the present owners and kept in Devon for summer sailing with the family. Wintered inside every year and left with an all over cover during the summer to protect the brightwork.
She was launched with a standing lug rig, but the owners had made a gunter sloop rig to the original Gartside plans by a professional boat builder with excellent condition Jeckells sails.
A very pretty dinghy built to a high standard with superb materials. One look at the tight grain of the douglas Fir planking shows just how much care went into the build of this boat.
Length 14’1”
Beam 5’10”
Construction
Clinker planked in slow grown Douglas Fir with a very tight and straight grain. It is clear this timber was chosen with care for its quality. Painted hull with a varnished sheer strake.
Copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers. Oak inwhales and mahogany rubbing strake.
Oak structural floor members across the centreline to give the hull stiffness.
Oak stem centreline and transom.
Oak centreboard box with a stainless steel centreboard, raised and lowered with a rope tackle.
3 oak thwarts with sawn oak supporting knees. Slatted douglas fir side bench thwarts.
Slatted douglas fir sole boards.
Transom hung droplate rudder in oak with bronze hangings.
Rig
The boat has 2 rigs, a standing lug rig that she was built with, and a new gunter sloop rig which the current owners had made for the boat.
Standing lug rig with a stayed pole mast. All spars in douglas fir.
Gunter rig on pine spars with stainless steel standing rigging. Lanyards for tensioning the rig made off through oak blocks fixed under the inwhales.
Mainsail and jib by Jeckells Sails in excellent condition.
Mainsheet to a rope horse across the midships thwart and through a jamming block which is easy to reach from the helm.
Equipment
Vandergraft road trailer, newly serviced
Fitted all over cover
Pair of beautiful sppon blade oars
Pair of rowlocks
All spars and rigging for both Lug and gunter rig
Standing lug mainsail
Jeckells Gunter mainsail
Jeckells jib
Rudder and tiller
Stainless centreplate
Grapnel anchor with chain and warp
Boat Summary
Make:
Jim Higginson
Model:
Paul Gartside Skylark
Boat Type:
sail
Boat Class:
Sail Dinghy
Build Year:
2013
Refit Year:
-
Hull Number:
-
Deck Plans:
Propulsion
Engine
Make:
-
Model:
-
No. engines:
-
Year:
-
Hours:
-
Type:
none
Fuel:
other
Propeller Material:
-
Total Power:
-
Specification
Dimensions
Length (Overall):
4.29m (14.07ft)
Length (Waterline):
-
Beam:
1.8m (5.91ft)
Min Draft:
-
Max Draft:
-
Min Bridge Clearance:
-
Weigths
Gross Weight:
-
Displacement:
-
Tanks
Fresh Water Tanks:
-
Fuel Tanks:
-
Holding Tanks:
-
Speed & Distance
Max Speed:
-
Cruising Speed:
-
Range at cruising speed:
-
Miscellaneous
Windlass:
-
Deadrise at transom:
-
Hull Material:
wood
Life Raft Capacity:
-
Accomodation
Seating Capacity:
-
Guest Cabins:
-
Guest Heads:
-
Cabin Headroom:
-
Crew Cabins:
-
Crew Heads:
-
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2013 Jim Higginson Paul Gartside Skylark
devon
£5,750 inc. VAT
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