This blog is devoted to my John Welsford designed 15' Navigator yawl Ellie. I built her in my garage over a period of 18 months and launched her in 2011. She sports a sliding gunter main, roller furled jib and sprit-boomed mizzen. Her construction is glued-lapstrake over permanent bulkheads and stringers. This blog is a record of her construction and her voyages here in the Puget Sound area and (hopefully) a useful resource for fellow Navigator builders.

Friday, December 1, 2023

Sherpa Templates available now

Full-Size Template Kits and Roll-Form patterns for John Welsford's Sherpa dinghy are now available from Duckworks

The kits are PDF files, in various paper sizes, that you can print yourself on an ordinary inkjet or laser printer and then you assemble the pages to make full size patterns.  They are accurate and save the builder considerable time, effort and possibly costly mistakes.  Also included in the downloads are roll-form versions that require no assembly.  They are 3' wide by up to 8' long.  You can have them printed at your local printshop, or you can have Duckworks print them for you.  They look like this:

Next up will be Templates for Welsford's upcoming new design - Scallywag.  I'm very excited about this new design and I can't wait to create templates for it.  Scallywag takes Welsford's blockbuster design SCAMP to a whole new level by enlarging it, adding a cabin, inboard motor well, anchor locker, mizzen, folding main mast, and probably more.

If you're unfamiliar with my Template Kits, more info can be found by clicking here.

Template Kits are available for several other of John Welsford's designs too.