Another fine cruising dinghy he designed and built is the Townsend Tern, belonging to Chelcie and Kathy Liu of Port Townsend. He was instrumental in building the first Welsford Scamp and perhaps is best known today for his adaptation of an Iain Oughtred Fulmar dinghy into the micro-cruiser Fetch.
The Loon is still in design stages and you are witness to the genius of the man behind her conception. If you study the drawings and models posted here, it will become readily apparent what I mean. You all know how much Doryman loves a double-ended sea vessel. One day he might be compelled to build a Loon, because she might be just the most perfectly conceived small trailerable cruiser available today.
Congratulations, Kees on a job well done! We look forward to the completed plans.
Anyone interested in developed plans for Loon should contact me soon. I'll be sure Kees hears about it.
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Dat ziet er inderdaad verdomd leuk uit!
Looks mighty fine (fun) indeed!
Couldn't have put that any better.
Promising design, for me the tiler after the mizzen looks a bit odd to me (Ketch). I would have preferred it in front of the mizzen (yawl). Maybe some nitpicking from my part.
(Have to be critical here. I just bought some other plans after procrastinating about it for 4 years. Maybe my next build)
JotM,
Dat heb je goed!
I'm sure Kees has some fancy linkage designed for that tiller, re Sparrow.
Wel sparrow thats me.
I've been daily coming back to this design.
And must say, I'm sold!
Hoe meer ik er naar kijk, hoe beter.
Maarten (no langer sparrow)
Kees was showing me the design when he last visited PT, back in Nov, and there is a revised version of the tiller linkage that graces Sparrow- in the Loon design, it's underneath the aft deck, to keep it clear of rigging, dock lines, etc, and that's why you don't see it in the models.
-Laingdon (owner of Sparrow)
Cool post. Loon looks intriguing. Any further development? I've been eyeing Romilly again as a potential build, but this Loon takes into consideration a lot of the cruising extras without fussing a boat up too much.
Eddie,
Last I heard, Kees was considering building Loon for himself, but I don't know if the plans are for sale yet.
I'll contact him and let you know.
Eddie,
If you happen to check back here, I've talked with Kees and yes, he is selling Loon plans. Unfortunately we have no way to contact you. I sent him a link to your google+ page, so maybe he will find you that way........
Yes. Kees emailed me this morning. Thanks for the help. Boat looks to be a really good candidate here.
That sounds interesting. How can Kees be contacted?
Leave your email here and I'll pass it on.
Thanks.
But I guess that when the times comes I will just contact him (or yourself) through Google+. I guess I could have asked Bert van Baar as well; what a small it is we're living in, even when we're living about 4400 nm apart. :)
Double ended sailing boats are pure vanity! The pointed back end only has a place in underpowered vessels... canoes and rowing skiffs. Length for length a transom offers better stability, higher top speed, better accommodation, more reserve buoyancy, higher top speed.... and somewhere to easily hang the trailer lights! If you can afford to throw away 20% of your boat's length, build a double ender.
double enders... other problems are usually the remoteness of the rudder head from the helmsman, and the difficulty of arranging convenient sheeting.
Having an anonymously bad day? You seem to have missed the point here. No need to be rude about it, it's all good fun.
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