Last edit 7/8/08 new Marconi Cutter rig and Junk sail letter for DISOLUTE

To my pleasure and I admit, surprise, our Diesel Duck family seems to have captured a lot of folk's heart and today there is quite a following. Several are voyaging all over the world, and many are being built. These new Ducks are being built in all fashions; wood, aluminum, and steel, really highly finished yachts and funky homebuilts. I love it. I'm also very flattered that it is happening. Anyway, as I wrote on the Home Page, I decided this site was getting to large, so, I "relaunched" a new site, ww.dieselducks.com that is devoted just to my DUCK designs . Please check over there too! The Duck site has become quite large with lots of info including several series showing DUCKS being built. However, the rest of my power designs are here on this, our main site.

25' River Walker: Float the Lazy River in comfort!

39' NW Cruiser: A simple and solid boat for the NW or other semi-protected cruising areas where the weather can be unpleasant.

44' Pilgrim: A simple plywood dory for the budget minded power cruiser. NEW Oct. 2001 outboard powered version.

44' Old Dad 44: We don't dare say a "piknik" boat today because a plastic boat company got a trademark on a similar name and actually threatens lawsuits on dumb innocents who use the word. I don't think they invented it but these days that don't matter at all. SO, I shall call this a "day/weekend/vacation boat." Feel free to use the term too..... She's a simple 44' plywood cruiser with a big fishing cockpit and a fine interior.

48' Alcina: A rugged wood boat I originally designed for myself.

49' Tasman Sea: Simple and rugged with an interior really set up for comfortable living aboard. She even has a small hot tub on the aft deck.

50' Troller: This is a so far unfinished design based on an old NW fishboat. The guy had me do this steel version, but, it didn't get built designed. You'll have to read the story......

55' Diesel Swan: Based on the Evolution 48 DUCK, just a bit narrower than the 55' DUCK.

55' Idelwild: A long and narrow cruiser. The first actually made the NW Passage in 2004-2005 and then continued on a around the world voyage. Check out the web site on my "links" page!

55' ULLIN: A plywood coastal cruising version of Idelwild.

57' Egis: A heavy duty double ender for high latitude cruising, with plenty of interior living space. New 3/20/08 A new version with fwd. deckhouse and wood construction!

Greg Nelson, who is building a wood EGIS, did this great 3-D rendering. I gotta learn how to do this sort of thing.....

59' Diesel Swan: Lots of glass, "portagee bridge," lots of room. There's two versions being worked up.

60' Goose: A very heavy duty boat, suitable for work for palatial living aboard.

71' ELLEMAID: The original ELLEMAID (the Swedish name for the "Wild Women") is probably my favorite of my designs. While I'm not impartial of course, I think she's perfect! Her hull lines were reduced to create EGIS and stretched to make the 81' sister. But this version has a balance that really hits me. Plans now available for wood as well as steel. 3/35/08 Watch a steel version CONSTRUCTION progress at Asboat in Izmir Turkey!

71' WUNDERBURG: Warm weather and Islands was the thought behind this idea! See the wood deck on steel hull version in Random Thoughts. New profiles 8/7/06

81' Ellemaid: Just 14' beam and low profile, requiring very low power, yet long enough to make a hell of a liveaboard.

The Diesel Duck Family. They just keep growing! Here they are centered around their roots; an "Old Timey" Pacific Northwest Salmon Troller built onto the 48' Diesel Duck hull. The DUCK line are TROLLER yachts, NOT Trawlers! For more about that, read my book The Troller Yacht Book, published by Norton, available from us, or at better bookstores anywhere! And again, please visit our companion web site dieselducks.com

63' ALCA i: 3 masted round bilge wood schooner with research lab. Chine version under development

43' Archimedes: A schooner who's plans are free in my Building Book but large versions (with consultation) for sale.

53' 4" Barbarossa: Double ended schooner, low and sleek, with lots of ropes to play with.

60' Big Mel: A ship (that's her photo above) for charter or living aboard. The photo above is a charter sailing ship and B&B near Amsterdam. Staying aboard would make a fine vacation and contact info is given here in her description. Another Big Mel is now a sailing charter ship in Italy! Check out the Links page at the end of this site for more info on that!

35' Button: Flush decked plywood or steel gaff cutter with pilothouse option.

36' Block Island Cowhorn: These fine cruising boats originated in the 1600s as an American sailing fishboat!

64' Coelocanth: Comfortable live-aboard schooner, beamy and stable.

43' Disolute: A junk rigged cutter with an unusual hull shape. 7/8/08 Marconi sailplan and Junk sailing tips letter added

50' Dragonfly: An unusual design. Plans are also in my Backyard Building Book. An almost finished one is for sale.

30' EMILY: The smallest of my VAGABOND designs and a fine cruiser for a couple with "short pockets" or old guys who want to go miminalist!

57' GETZ: A heavy duty round bilge double ended WOOD schooner (added 1/26/06).

47' 7" Gulnar'e: A steel staysail schooner set up for day charter use.

16' (Happy Camper of) Pogo Pogo: Created and named after a speech by vice president Dan Quayle... 4/3/07 new photos and letter from a builder. She floated right side up!

39' Hera: Juno blown up 15% all over gives added room. An older design but I still like her.

38' High Latitudes Drifter: Essentially a "finger In The Wind" to most ideas of modern sailing yacht design.....

35' 6" JUNO: The original of my VAGABOND boats. The newer ones may be "improved" but old JUNO is still a fine ship.

37' JENNY: A transom version of JUNA, with a longer house and a different interior. She's a fine weekend and vacation cabin as well as ocean capable!

37' Juna Junosdautter: A trim double-ender for single handing or a couple to voyage in.

50' Melquiades: The older seester of Big Mel.

33' Mynonie: "Junk schooner" rigged, Maine Peapodish on steroids, shallow, and able to stand on her feet if grounded.

82' Oceans: A Schooner Yacht. Photos of an outrageous model made by Tim Reynolds, Fair Oaks, CA.

50' OTTER: The Largest of my VAGABOND designs. steel construction photos added 7/2/06

44' Resolute: A schooner suited to be a buccaneer with.

43' Ruarri: Sort of like JUNA on steroids, she's a fine heavy double ender.

33' Rufus: A plywood sailing barge for big rivers and bays.

19' 9" Stuart Little: A safe small ship for kids.

28' Uncle Sam: A little schooner.

71' WUNDERBURG: Originally listed as a power design, she became a motorsailor too so is also listed here!

More coming soooooon......

This was a grand motoryacht from New York that ended up on the west coast. During WW11 she was seized by the government and used for coast patrol. After the war she kicked about, and in the late 1950s, a guy bought her and dragged her ashore to make a gift shop. I've stopped and looked at her many many times. If she's open when I pass I go in. This boat was one of the first I knew that interested me in the long and narrow idea of a seaboat. She's off hwy 101 just south of the Oregon-Calif. border.

I was present when the ship was towed into the mouth of the Smith River by Joe Sierka just after the war ended (WWII). It was a floating restaurant gift shop for years before it was raised to the hard. I actually worked there as the "dock boy" etc. It brings back some wonderful memories.
I just finished reading "Troller Yacht" and really enjoyed it. I'm getting a little old, but have always dreamed of building such a boat. I've owned many boats but few that I really liked. I love to browse the fishing ports on the Oregon coast for old boats.

This is a model of a WW1 coastal patrol boat. Like the yacht above, she's long and narrow, making her fuel efficient and seaworthy. This model is in the small museum inside the ship above!

A "Stock Plan" is a set of building plans that is already drawn so is the least expensive way to get a set of plans. I offer quite a variety, so hopefully you'll find one of them is exactly what you want. Most people end up making some changes; for instance, the interior is almost ALWAYS changed to suit people's particular needs. That's fine; no reason not to.

If you think one of these boats is what you want but you want to see more, you can order Study Plans. These are printed from the actual building plans, are 24" x 36", and will consist of the profile and any versions, the interiors drawn so far, various construction details, and a sheet showing the top and side views with no interior which you can use to sketch in your own ideas. The study plan price (see order form) is refundable if you order the complete building plans within 30 days. If you can read AutoCad r.14 .dwg files I can send you study or building plans on CD, as well as email them to you.

I'm willing to do redrawing on many of my designs but of course would need to charge you for it. In practice, you and the builder can usually work out most changes you want and I'm always happy to give my opinion if you'd like. Any consultation help I can give is part of the deal when you decide to build one of my designs.

. We're slowly (very slowly I'm afraid) getting the entire Stock Plans Catalog posted here, but it isn't even close yet. To see them all, for the time being ya gotta order my catalog!

(4/4/08)

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