Guillemot

摘要

Here we have a good little boat for sailing or rowing, and it will handle a small outboard motor as well.Drawings for the 11'6" Guillemot (pronounced gilly-mot) come to us from Iain Oughtred's pen. Working on the Isle of Skye, just off the northwestern coast of Scotland, the designer fashioned this husky lap-strake skiff along the lines of a 19th-century ship's boat or a large yacht tender. He tells us, "She floats on her designed waterline with three adults aboard, and can carry a load of gear as well.... Two [adults] plus two children might be a comfortable maximum for pottering about."Guillemot's hull shows a slight hollow at the forefoot. The lines then flow smoothly through particularly firm bilges in the mid-section. Finally they sweep up easily to a nice wineglass transom. All of this creates a burdensome, yet shapely, hull.