For Sale

'Daydream' – a  rowing / sailing canoe, 14' 7" x 31" £300

Location:  Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England, UK

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Daydream is a rowing / sailing canoe for one person, preferably up to around 5' 9" tall and weighing up to around 11 stone. To date she has been used only a few times, for rowing. There is some incomplete but competent sailing gear, as described below.

We used to have a caravan in North Norfolk, and Daydream was inspired by the old wildfowlers' Norfolk punt type of craft . . . but cartopping, building space and storage space limitations meant that Daydream became more "open canoe" than Norfolk punt.

She is a pleasure to row and with her shallow draught is a lot of fun on the sandy North Norfolk creeks. For cartopping, 2 people can easily lift her onto the car. As for sailing . . . my work took me to the West Midlands, other family pursuits took over and I never completed the sailing gear (details below). Daydream then spent many years dry-stored under my garage ceiling. 

I have to sell Daydream, reluctantly, because I am now a bit too old for anything easily capsizable and I am building a 12' x 4' rowing dinghy called 'Waif', designed for me by Paul Fisher of Selway Fisher Design –so I desperately need the space in my garage. 

Daydream is a wood/epoxy build and is made of very nice 1/4" mahogany marine plywood. The foredeck covers 2 separate buoyancy tanks and the aft locker can easily be converted back into a buoyancy tank by sealing the existing hatch door, if desired. A strong mast step-and-collar arrangement for an unstayed mast is provided, and a centreboard case is built in. There is a pair of oars, without leathers. This photo shows the rowlocks and their supports which slot into the inwale:

 

These two photos show the incomplete sailing gear:

 

I don't like daggerboards (ever since I ran the daggerboard of a Mirror Dinghy into a submerged rock!). Both the centreboard and the rudder blade are designed to be held down by long shockcords and to be pulled up by cord to a cleat (like the Mirror Dinghy rudder blade and some of the OK Dinghy centreboards, both of which behave well if they hit anything).

Not included in the price is a nearly new Optimist sail, mast, boom and sprit. I bought these for Daydream but I realise that a buyer might have his own ideas about the rig . . . and I might want to keep the rig for Waif (or a pram dinghy I may build after Waif) . . . so this is something for discussion. To fit Daydream, the mast would need to be lengthened at the foot, as Daydream is a little deeper than an Optimist.

Daydream's finish from new is SP Epoxy, overcoated with white International 2-pack Polyurethane outside and similar clear varnish on the decks and inside. She has had so little use (4 outings) and so long in dry storage that I have not had to renew or touch up the original finish, so she is "as original". Unfortunately this year I had to store her outside upside-down on trestles for a few months while conversion work was done in my garage, so there is minor damage to the finish along the outer keel and the underside of the outwale. Otherwise she is in excellent, unused condition.

I am disappointed that I have failed to exploit the full potential of Daydream with the sailing gear, and I hope that someone else might do better and enjoy an attractive, unique craft.

Price:  £300 ono    (space needed!)

Location: Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire

Contact: Mike Goodger, tel: 01684 591189, email: amgoodger@aol.com

For Sale

Framework for 15 ft PBK kayak

This frame has been built with marine ply, oak, mahogany and redwood fir.  It has been marine varnished with 3 coats.  It has a dagger board, rudder and sail ready to attach.  Where I have come unstuck is in covering it.  I started using yellow 16oz PVC and confess I have made a right mess of it. If anyone can skin a canoe with the remaining PVC or start again with canvas you will have a good craft.  The plans from PBK and stacks of left over materials will be included. You are welcome to contact me in the Whitley Bay area on Tyneside.

At £150 ono it is a good bargain for some one.

John  Phone 0191 2374037

Solway Dory leeboard and bracket/thwart - virtually new condition £70

Solway Dory bracket & thwart for a pivoting leeboard 
- reasonable condition £15 (sorry no picture - similar to one above but not in such good condition - looks more used but still very functional)

Paddle - Grey Owl Sugar Island
Large blade area. Laminated in various woods. Scroll grip.
Resin reinforcement round tip. 58 inch overall, 36 inch shaft.
Excellent condition, virtually as new. £55 (£73 new)

Located in South Lakes, Cumbria UK
can be viewed at an OCSG event, by arrangement.
Contact: Keith Morris 015395 34638
canoesailing@orange.net

"Mrs. Chippy" is the 13'8" undecked version fitted with a single lug rigged mainsail.
Very well built by a professional woodworker to a very high standard.
Only for sale due to building a new boat.
Location Hampshire.
Price £650
Please e-mail
brianpearson(at)madasafish.com.

 sailing canoe 17'x36" 

Clinker Ply construction - craftsman built from high quality, lightweight plywood.
Largely decked with buoyancy chambers all round, other than the cockpit/footwell.
Two large access deck hatches. Good condition

Includes rudder and twin asymmetric dagger boards (very efficient up wind), single 43 sq.ft. una rigged bermudan sail  by Steve Goacher (world champion sailor and sailmaker of Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria) on two piece mast. Also includes custom paddle that fits inside the cockpit, which is fitted with a Supersuck self bailer - works even at slow speeds.

Fast and exciting - not really a beginners boat, unless used with outriggers such as those available from Solway Dory: (http://www.solwaydory.fsnet.co.uk/misc/accessories.html)

NB outriggers are not included with this canoe but two anchor points for outrigger beams are already fitted

Located in South Lakes, Cumbria UK
Could be viewed and tried at an OCSG event, by arrangement.
£500
Contact: Keith Morris 015395 34638
canoesailing@orange.net

Outrigger sailing canoe with adjustable Bruce foil
I am a former OCSG member who dropped out some time after moving to Norway. However, I now have a sailing canoe for sale.


The boat is a Raptor 16 (www.hydrovisions.com) with a hand controlled Bruce foil which pushes the outrigger hull up when to lee and pulls it down when to weather.  It is the expedition model with roller reefing around the mast, a Kevlar strip down the bottom, and a “sidecar” for carrying camping gear or (on smooth water) a passenger.  The boat sails faster than most dinghies, and paddles better than my Ally folding canoe.  The weight is 55 kg, light enough that I can carry it into the water.  The heaviest part, the main hull, weighs 25 kg, thanks to being built in carbon fibre sandwich.  I have written about my first sailing experiences with the boat in The Gossip.



The reason for sale is that I have sailed the boat only about ten times since I bought it three years ago, only twice last year.  Given where I can store the boat, from the time I decide to go sailing until I am on the water takes three hours, from the time I decide to stop until I am home again four hours.  If I could, as I had hoped, go beach cruising for a few days at a time, that wouldn’t be so bad.  Unfortunately, I neglected to check whether there were any beaches where I could camp, and it turns out that there is nothing within sailing distance from my launch site.  The wind is rarely good enough that a few hours of sailing is worth a total of seven hours of mucking about before and after.  So when I had a good offer of a boat just big enough to sleep in, meaning I can at last do some cruising, I bought it.  Therefore the outrigger canoe is redundant.  The boat is currently in Norway. Any prospective buyer could come and try it out ie borrow the boat for a holiday.  If they don’t like it and haven’t damaged it, they return it; if they damage it, they are committed to buy.

This boat cost £5000 including transport, duty and VAT from CA, USA -  looking for £2500.  

Please contact Robert Biegler [Robert.Biegler@svt.ntnu.no]