Product Description
This is the first in a new range of Fyne boat kits. These clinker style boats will be available in several sizes between 2.8 and 5.5 metres.
Unfortunately it was quite windy on the first sail and, as you will see, the trim isn't set very well, it does need 2 main halyards, but with winds gusting to 26 knots, its bloody lively and fast.
Jeff F.
The Fyne Four is a light weight clinker style boat that is a nimble performer especially in light airs. The boat is stable and designed to be sailed upright rather than healed over. The standard sail plan incorporates a high boom for crew safety. Like all of the boats in this range the Fyne Four has watertight chambers to provide buoyancy. It is not necessary to clutter the cockpit with annoying buoyancy bags. Longitudinal seats are provided for the crew.
The hull is made from 6mm Okoume, sheathed with glass fabric for those hard beach landings — the rudder kicks up easily for landings. The interior includes 9mm Okoume frames and sealed air tanks at the bow and along the sides for buoyancy.
Although primarily designed as a sailing boat this hull also rows well. Most of the pictures shows the rig that we think looks best but it is possible to fit other rigs.
- Mast length: 4 m
- Yard Length: 2.8 m
- Boom Length: 2.4 m
- Sail Area: 7.7sq m (on standard sail plan)
The hull kit includes:
- Pre-cut wooden panels with pre-cut joints
- Epoxy resin
- Epoxy activator
- Epoxy fillers
- Woven glass fabric
- Woven glass tape
- Ties
- centreboard
- centreboard case
- Centreboard pin
- Rudder
- Rudder pin
- Pintles
- Gudgeons
- Wooden blanks for spars
- Broken inwales
- Second lower rubrail
- Hatches
- Comprehensive building manual and plans
- Free technical support from a competent builder
The kit does not include the following but we can supply them if required:
- Sails
- Warps
- Paint and varnish
- Rigging
- Sailing hardware
Study Manual and Plans
This is intended for pre-build study or to help with the decision to purchase. Reading this manual will help you decide whether or not you can build the boat. It is the manual that accompanies the kits. It describes all of the techniques that will be used during the building and also a step by step guide to construction. Scale drawings are used throughout as well as photographs of critical jobs.
If, later, you decide to purchase the kit the cost of this printed manual will be deducted from the kit price.
This manual does not contain the plans of the panels with the cutting instructions so it is not possible to build the boat from scratch using only this manual.
PDF Version
An electronic, non paper, version of the 56 page study manual above that can be viewed only using Adobe Reader.
After credit card authorisation the file will be sent to the email address put on the order form. The file is about 1400 KB and takes about 25 seconds to download on slow broadband.
