My Wooden Boat of the Week

And, now:  You can build her yourself.

This is one of my all-time favorites.  We originally wrote about her in a sidebar to a feature by Jenny Bennett on ROXANE in WB No. 125.  ROMILLY’s a smaller, trailerable sister to ROXANE.

Due to popular demand, Ed Burnett (Burnett Yacht Design, www.burnettyachtdesign.co.uk) worked with Nigel Irens to offer ROMILLY as a build-her-yourself.

Now you can build her in strip-plank.  (Previously, she’d only been available in GRP.)  Imagine your boat looking like this:

Shoal draft, relatively easy for you to build.  Here are her specs:

LOA	6.72m	(22′ 0″)
LWL	5.96m	(19′ 6″)
Beam (max.)	2.12m	(6′11″)
BWL	1.52m	(5′ 0″)
Draught (board up) Draught (board down)	0.5m 1.54m	(1′ 8″) ( 5′ 1″)
Displacement (max)	1.5 t
Total Sail Area	22.5m2	(242ft2)

Her lug yawl rig makes her an outstanding sailer.

Here is some of her history, from Ed Burnett’s website:

“The first Romilly prototype was designed and built in 1995. She was constructed from single skin GRP and shortly after her launch Dartington Boatworks was set up to build and market the Romilly and Roxane designs. Unfortunately, Dartington Boatworks went out of business in 1996 however both production boat projects were passed to Bridgend Boat Company in Plymouth who built several of the boats. Recently, the moulds have again moved and the boats are now built by Van Veen Yachtbouw in the Netherlands.

We have had many enquiries from potential amateur builders interested in building either design using wood epoxy methods and these plans have been developed to make this possible. There are a few small changes to the production Romilly design, which reflect the change of material and also incorporate a bit of development, drawing on our experience with the production version.”

Full plans are available here:

http://www.burnettyachtdesign.co.uk/romillyspv.html

Tags: build it yourself, Ed Burnett, Nigel Irens, Romilly, Roxane, wood boat

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