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Elterwater Pram

This Pram is designed for people in a hurry to get out on the water. It is of a classic design with three buoyant compartments forming the seats. It is light enough to be car topped and short enough to be carried whilst towing a caravan.

This stable boat is ideal for fishing or simply messing about in on rivers and lakes. The epoxy makes it a low maintenance vessel where the paint (if any) is purely cosmetic. It can be roughly treated as a work boat or lovingly cosseted as a picnic pleasure caft.

The standard kit is for a rowing version but this can be developed to become an able sailer using an unstayed mast. The sailing option which includes a daggerboard, daggerboard case, rudder, tiller, mast and boom can be fitted at a later date.

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The Wherry

The Wherry is a traditional fast rowing boat. Her handsome hull shape reminds us of classic Thames wherries. Observers have described her as "the most sophisticated stitch and glue kit available" and "the best looking boat kit ever". She makes a splendid open water exercise shell and, at weekends, she will serve as an elegant picnic boat for two. The Wherry can be rowed using normal fixed rowlocks, or a Piantedosi sliding seat and out riggers may be installed - and removed- in under a minute (sold separately). With a sliding seat she displays a rewarding speed while having enough stability for a novice oarsman.

Construction is of 6 mm okoume with Honduran mahogany gunwales and knees. The Lapstitch ™ technique of construction means that no strongback or formers are required. The hull is simply wired together and glued. She is reinforced along her keel with fibre glass for abrasion protection. The building time is typically about 70 hours.

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Jimmy Skiff

The Jimmy Skiff is a modern adaptation of an age old design. Our skiff sails and motors as well as it rows and can accommodate a family of four. Due to its lightweight construction, it can easily be carried on your car top or hoisted onto the deck of a larger boat. It readily accepts a small outboard motor, and sails like a dream when fitted with her leg-o-mutton sail. The basic kit includes everything you need to outfit her as a rowboat or motorboat. The optional sail kit includes the mast, sprit boom, dagger board and case, and rudder and tiller, see our sailing section.

Oxford Shell

The Oxford Rowing Shell is designed for novice and intermediate rowers, and while it is not an 'open water boat' it can be rowed in a fair chop. A comparison row with one of the best known recreational shells showed the Oxford Shell to be extremely fast and quite stable. The design features a high coaming and watertight bulkheads. A drop in unit (sold separately) is used: all the rigging can be installed (or removed) in less than a minute. This makes car topping and storage much easier than with most shells of this level of performance. Construction is straightforward and a competent woodworker should have no trouble assembling the kit in a week.

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