Skerry

Product Description

The Skerry combines excellent rowing and sailing qualities. The perfect boat for sheltered water: sailing when the wind blows and rowing when it does not.

This Skerry is a beautiful boat... There is not an ugly line on this boat. The sheer is beautiful and accented by the lines of the chines. The chines add interest and eye candy to an already appealing boat.

Sailing, June 2003

The hull is stable and buoyant, whether you're running in choppy water or lifting over motorboat wakes.

With a long, easy glide and excellent tracking a cruise under oars alone can be contemplated, averaging 3.5 knots for hours at a time. Two rowing positions permit the Skerry to be rowed with one, two, or three adults on board.

It's an ideal first boatbuilding project and a good boat in which to learn to sail or row. The Skerry will take you for a relaxing afternoon sail or it has the capacity and performance to go ‘beachcruising’ — sailing or rowing by day and pulling up on a secluded beach each evening to camp. The Skerry's feather-light weight and shallow draft mean that you can poke into quiet waters, pull the boat over a sandbar, and explore that hidden cove.

The Skerry is designed in a clinker style which produces a beautiful boat that achieves maximum strength with a minimum of weight.

The sides are 6mm Okoume, while the bottom is 9mm, 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 stern for integral buoyancy — as with most of our boats, there is no need for bouyancy bags.

The rowing hull kit includes:

• Pre-cut wooden panels with pre-cut joints
• Epoxy resin
• Epoxy activator
• Epoxy fillers
• Woven glass fabric
• Woven glass tape
• Ties
• Comprehensive building manual and plans
• A pair of silicon bronze sockets and rowlocks
• Free technical support from a competent builder

What is in a boat kit.

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.

Full Plans and Manual

This describes all of the techniques 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.

This contains the plans of the panels with the cutting instructions so it is possible to build the boat from scratch using these plans and manual.

Sailing Option

This option can be retrospectively fitted and it turns the Skerry hull into an able sailing boat.

The sprit rig is easy to set up and handle, powerful for its size, and stows inside the hull when not in use. The flaring sides make the Skerry stable and dry under sail. Windward performance is excellent. The boom is out of the way of the crew and the boat can be rowed with the sail up. This is such an important and practical feature for small boat handling that it's bizarre not to find it in more smallcraft.

The option includes:

• Mast
• Boom
• Mast step
• Board
• Board case
• Rudder
• Tiller
• Blocks and cleats

The sail option does not include the sails or warp although we can supply them.