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Auk

Puffin

One of my clients built one years ago in my old Jam Factory workshops, deep underground in Adelaide City, South Australia. He built his in strip plank, which worked but it was a fight with all that curvaceousness.

Would have been lighter, cheaper and faster to build in glued clinker ply and would have made nicer chuckling noises in the water into the bargain.

Personally I think this is the nicest tender in the Oughtred pantheon, with the possible exception of Auklet. Looks proper. Pointy bow, nice rocker, balanced lug sail, and oh heaven, a centreboard. Don't like those baitboard leeboard things! Not a quick boat but able to carry a load, safe to sail row and small outboard with one, two or even three people easily and as Iain acknowledges, even five of modest avoirdupois in not too choppy water. With a u bolt fitted at the water line, Auk will tow well too. With her rocker and short, fat form, she won't rush on and collide with your transom when you slow down, either. Helpful, that.

Construction Options traditional plank, strip plank, cold moulded.

A friend built one of these in Bridge water years ago. he made it for his son, who was completely bored by the prospect, and it wandered around, like a Puffin Dutchman flying, no home to go to..

Then Morgan Clark and I used it for a while, and even put a small fossil burner inboard in its handsome belly, and then it started a whole new life.

As a small motor launch.

Along the way i came to love this type, which includes the longer and short Tammie Norries and Penny Fee. The real displacement hull form with no tilt to planing modernism; remarkably stable, capable of rowing. sailing and in this case motoring, with quite a load on.

This little boat goes together well, I have seen them built in glued plywood clinker, the preferred method, and because it has relatively soft lines it strip planks pretty well, too, if you really must. Sail choices include balanced lug and gunter sloop rig. The latter will be especially good to windward but a bit of fiddle to rig compared to the simplicity of the balanced lug. You really DON'T need that Blaxland, oars are quieter and more fun.

Construction Options traditional plank, strip plank, cold moulded.

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2.36 m - 7' 8"
1.20 m - 3' 11"
3.53 sq m - 37.98 sqf
27.00 kg - 59 lbs
120 hour
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3.11 m - 10' 2"
1.22 m - 4' 0"
S6.04 sq m - 64.99 sqf
45.00 kg - 99 lbs
160 hours
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Guillemot

Tammie Norrie

This displacement hull boat in the mode of tammie Norrie and friends has all their attributes, but in a size that has great appeal. Every wooden Boat festival for the past 16 years or so, the Armfields slip volunteers, with Iain's blessing have made one, with full sloop gunter rig as a VERY popular raffle prize for the South Australian wooden boat festival.

Construction Options traditional plank, strip plank, cold moulded.

Tammie Norrie is by far the most popular of the precut kits we make. Her length makes her capable of carrying two rowers tandem wise, and thus crewed she they really can cover some ground. I have seen one sailing around with four on board, which is a bit much, but it shows her load carrying ability, and the advantage offered in true displacement as opposed to planing hulls, for a wide range of activities.

tammie norrie sails really well with any of her offered rigs, and some insist on polluting her with an outboard, often successfully.

I know one owner who uses a 4hp out board on his, they have had not swimming, drowning moments from time to time.

I have sailed her with a sprit rig, very easy and fast, stable too.

This one is alonger version of of Mole.

Construction Options traditional plank, strip plank, cold moulded.

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3.50 m - 11' 5"
1.36 m - 4' 5"
6.60 sq m - 71.02 sqf
65.00 kg - 143 lbs
200 hours
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4.11 m - 13' 5"
1.36 m - 4' 5"
7.80 sq m - 83.93 sqf
77.00 kg - 169 lbs
220 hours
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Tammie Norrie 15

Penny Fee

This is a stretched version(..well not just a stretch.

It's had a slight rework along the way...) of Tammie Norrie to achieve greater load carrying capacity than the original superb car toppable (larger car..) rowing sailing machine, while retaining the similar easy movement through the water at displacement speeds, easy rowing action and the capacity to take small (2hp) out board if your really must.

Construction Options traditional plank, strip plank, cold moulded.

This design has grown out of the need for a boat similar to the Tammie Norrie, but of the length of the Fulmar, with the capacity for ‘proper’ rowing and good sailing performance, whether light or laden down.

The Fulmar's shape makes rowing a compromise, rather than a natural activity, two rowers plus load and a couple of passengers can really cover some miles. Penny Fee will have all of that and much increased load carrying capacity and
increased stability.

The Fulmar, being comparatively a planing hull, will dig the transom in and drag water if heavily loaded.
This effect will be less on the Penny Fee. Quite a few clients had suggested just stretching the Tammie Norrie, but Iain felt that it would be better to do a complete redraw to increase the stability and to finesse it into the best picnic boat it could be.

Construction Options traditional plank, strip plank, cold moulded.

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15' - 4.57m
1.36 m - 4' 5"
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4.87 m - 16'
1.6 m - 5' 3 "
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