Small Boat Designs - 10' to 30'
Tad Roberts Yacht Design

Sail Boats to 29'6"

• • 16' Little Harry

    Sheathed-strip planking over plywood bulkheads, full size plots for bulkheads, transom, and stem provided.

  • Pogy 17 Motorsailer

    Lapstrake plywood with fibreglass sheathing over bulkheads construction.

  • Pender Harbour 17 Daysailer

    Plank on frame carvel construction

  • Captain Flint, 17' cat-schooner

    Plywood on sawn frames

  • 195 Sailing Scooter

    Lapstrake plywood or sheathed strips

  • 19.5’ Pogy Motorsailer

    Lapstrake plywood with fibreglass sheathing over bulkheads construction.

  • 20' Schooner-rigged Junk Nu Wa

    Plywood construction using either fillet and tape or solid timber cleats with screw fastenings. Plywood planking, deck, and house on plywood bulkheads spaced 650mm (25”).

  • 22' Schooner Saturnina

    Sheathed-strip planking over plywood bulkheads, carvel planking on steamed frames option

  • Bear Bay 23

    Lapstrake plywood trailerable motorsailer

  • 23' Schooner Gaviota

    Sheathed-strip planking over plywood bulkheads

• • 24' Canoe Yawl Tamara

    Sheathed cedar strip plank  with laminated backbone, fiberglass centerboard case, plywood decks and bulkheads

  • 25' Schooner Big Saturnina

    Sheathed strip planking on laminated frames.  Plywood deck. Two house versions, trunk cabin with 5’4” headroom and pilothouse with 6’3” headroom.

  • 25' Trailerable Tilikum

    Sheathed-strip planking over plywood bulkheads, full size plots for bulkheads, transom, and stem provided

  • Khutze 26

    Multi-chine plywood motorsailer

  • Queen Charlotte 26

    Lapstrake plywood motorsailer

  • 26' Sail Training Brig

    Modern heavy displacement construction

  • Harry, 26' Sailing Barge

    Original Harry. Sheathed sheet plywood planking over plywood bulkheads.

  • Harry II, 27' Sailing Scow

    Sheathed sheet plywood planking over plywood bulkheads.

  • Laura Cove, 28' Sailing Scow

    Plywood hull and deck planking over plywood bulkheads.

  • Lambert 28, Sail Assisted Outboard Cruiser

    Plywood planking over plywood bulkheads, fiberglass sheathed.

  • Teazer, 28' Coastwise-cruising Ketch

    Cold-molded

  • Future Cruiser 28' Centreboard Ketch

    Cold-molded

  • Hero, 29'6" Offshore Cutter

    Cold-molded

Sail & Oar Boats to 28'

• • Pogy 12' Standing Lug

    Riveted lapstrake western red cedar above the waterline. Glued 1/4 mahogany marine plywood with bottom sheathed with kevlar and epoxy.

  • Pogy 16.75 Cat Ketch

    Lapstrake construction.

  • Islandbird, 16' Whitehall-type Sailing Dinghy

    Traditional construction with bright finished mahogany planking copper riveted to steam bent white oak frames. 

  • 517 Barefoot Raider

    Multi chine plywood construction over egg-crate style internal grid work with flush watertight sole above DWL

• • 5.8 Barefoot Raceboat

    Barefoot hybrid system of sheathed plywood bottom with topsides of lapstrake cedar planks

  • Ratty 20' Open Cat Ketch

    3/8" mahogany plywood planking over an internal structure of half-inch plywood bulkheads and longitudinal plywood tanks

  • Tern 24' Open Gaff Ketch

    Plank-on-frame, lapstrake plywood construction screwed to yellow cedar frames

  • 28’8” Longboat

    Construction red cedar lapstrake planking riveted to bent white oak frames. Douglas Fir keel and laminated stem.

Displacement Power Boats to 30'

• • Pocket Cruiser 16

    Cold-molded, sheathed –strip, or foam cored fiberglass construction.

  • Double-ender 18

    See the Northcoast Double-ender 18.

  • Northcoast Double-ender 18

    3/4” Red Cedar strip planking over 1/2" permanent plywood molds.

  • Regan 18

    Double-ender 18 with transom.

  • Fidler 19, Gillnetter-style Displacement Cruiser

    3/4” Red Cedar strips over taped in plywood bulkheads.

  • 19’6" Power Pogy

    Lapstrake plywood over plywood bulkheads, all bonded construction.

• • Timbercoast Troller 22

    Plywood over sawn frames or aluminum construction.

  • Tanu 24

    Aluminum plate over transverse web frames with longitudinal stringers.

  • Garden Bay 23

    Construction options, strip cedar planking or foam sheathed with fiberglass over permanent plywood bulkheads fillet and taped to the skin.

  • Pearson 28 Troller

    Sheet plywood or aluminum construction

  • Ironbark 28

    Traditional plank-on-frames or cold-molded

  • Johnson 285

    Double-ended traditional workboat-style cruiser

  • Johnson 30

    Traditional Scottish Ringnetter Heavy Displacement Double-ender

Planing and Semi-displacement Power Boats to 29'

• • 16 Lapstrake Speedboat

    Lapstrake cedar on bent oak frames.

  • 16 Nomad Runabout

    Lapstrake.

  • Whiskey Creek 16

    Aluminum crewboat.

  • Oak 18 Inshore Fisherman

  • 18' Runabout Power Skiff

• • Sitka Spruce 18

  • Berry Point 20

    Stitch and tape plywood on plywood bulkheads and stringers.

  • Berry Point 26

    Sheathed plywood over a series of plywood bulkheads and longitudinal stringers.

  • Douglas Fir 28

    Semi-Displacement. Traditional plank-on-frames or cold-molded

  • Stahl 29 Outboard Cruiser

    Foam cored fiberglass over NC cut station molds.

Tenders & Launches to 18'

• • Jigger, 11' Tender/Workboat/Tug

    Plywood planks over sawn frames.

  • 13'6" Mahogony Tender Seka

    Laminated Fir backbone, with African Mahogany planking riveted to Oak frames.

  • 15' Electric Launch

    Carvel construction.

  • Selkie, 15' Inboard Launch

    Carvel construction.

  • 16'/5m Inboard Launch

    Mahogany lapstrake construction.

• • Alder 18, Island Support Boat

    Plywood.

  • 24' Big Alder, Flat-bottomed Displacement Workboat

    Plywood over sawn frames or aluminum. Full size frame patterns available..

  • Wedge Point 27

    27' sail-assisted, semi-displacement, trailerable classic launch. Plywood planks over sawn frames.

Self-Powered House Barges and Shanty Boats to 26'

• • 20' Shanty Boat

    Two arrangements. Both will sleep 3-4 people with room left over, a complete galley, and small head with composting toilet. Solar panels, a windmill, rain catchment, and a wood stove.

  • Marjorie 26' Barge

    Two sleeping cabins, a head, galley, and a pilothouse.