HELP! Naval Architect needed to modify plans for charity in P.N.G.

[Bajansailor]

Falmouth Quay Punts are wonderful boats - very seaworthy, powerful and fast - google 'Curlew' who is now at the Maritime Museum in Falmouth.

Uffa Fox was very keen on them - here is an extract from the book 'Best of Uffa' edited by Guy Cole and published by Nautical.







Here are some nice photos of a Heard 35 which is based on the Quay Punt hull design :
http://www.yachtsnet.co.uk/archives/...5/heard-35.htm

And here is a 'modern' Quay Punt for sale - http://toucando.net/index.html

While here are some lines plans from Clean Sweet Wind - a wonderful book about the sailing working craft of the Caribbean in the '70's.

Here is a sailing lighter from Nevis - very full bodied for it's length, yet capable of a good turn of speed - the book notes that they have been recorded as sailing the 11 miles between St Kitts and Nevis in a little under an hour on a broad reach in the light condition.




Mermaid (below) was built as a yacht, but based on the lines of the Carriacou working sloops - she was unbeatable in the annual Carriacou Regatta.



Here is Skywave - she was built on the beach at Friendship in Bequia. The author of Clean Sweet Wind writes a lovely story of how he bumped into the Builder one day and ended up working full time and un-paid helping to finish building her.
And he later notes how Skywave totally transformed the fortunes of the Builder, simply by carrying some cargo between the islands, and doing a bit of fishing occasionally.

[peter radclyffe]

this or a small gaff smack or a colin archer

[peter radclyffe]

[peter radclyffe]

excuse me folks, wrong post, i meant this one

[DownWest]

With the ideas of classic designs, this might be heresy. But look at at Bolger's Sir Joseph Banks. A design for trading, without the wimsey.
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[Bajansailor]

Originally Posted by DownWest

With the ideas of classic designs, this might be heresy. But look at at Bolger's Sir Joseph Banks. A design for trading, without the wimsey.
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Phil Bolger was a genius, and a master at the art of lateral and unorthodox thinking re boat design!
Here are a couple of his drawings of the Sir Joseph Banks, taken from his excellent book 'Boats with an open mind'.
OK, this vessel is 95' long x 16' wide (with 150 cu. m. available in the cargo hold) - rather bigger than what the OP has in mind, but perhaps a scaled down version could be a possibility for trading on the proposed route?









The main drawback I can see though is that while the design lends itself perfectly to steel or aluminium (or perhaps even plywood in a much smaller version) construction, it would not be very suitable for building using traditional wooden construction methods.

[DownWest]

I threw the S J B in from memory, thanks for the drawings Banj. On a project of this magnitude, might the OP not try to find a larger site for construction. 36ft a bit too small to carry cargo. A friend is looking at a similar situation, but at 80ft, as that is the cut off limit for qualifications that the islanders can easily afford. The brief is slightly different, one island a long way off, but a good sea boat is needed either way. Crew nos. would prob be the same, if that is a consideration.
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