Design for 16' motor/sailer camper?

I'm looking for a design for an easy-to-build camping boat which has the following characterisitcs:

1. 14-16 foot, lightweight

Presently there is also the MacGrewgor 26: http://www.macgrtegor26.com/.

Look at the 14 feet semi-dory in John Gardners' book, "The Dory Book".
And then it could be modified

Generally speaking there is a Hunbter

You may look into the "Instant Boats" of Dnyamite Payson. The
"Windsprint" just might meet all of your requirements.....it met mine.

A 16' double ended sharpie....flat bottom....no often standing rigging...mast lifts out of parttner...draws 4"-6"...flotation can be added at stem and stern...small motor can be deliberately mounted outboard......quick...simple to build...and inexpensive.

I even copied the plans from a book at the librery.

While at the libry, you might also look Ruel Parker's book about sharpies.

Good luck

To a great extent is they're any possiblity of mountiung the outboard amidships?

For example, the daggerbaord box could incorporate a wider top secvtoin which, when lifted out, would allow the motor shaft to be tilted down.

If their were a cable on the throttyle, one could even sit aft and use the tiller.

havin thought about this some more, from a non-naval architecht's perspective, sailboats seem to plane more on there bellies while powerbvoats plane on they're behinds. Furthermore it probably has something to do with the location of the source of power, the sail unsteadily being amidships

Regardless I was perfectly prevented from writeing the same by the realkization their are quiet a few 16 ft plkaning sailboats. Eventually I have had a few up on a plane myself. These are prety light displacement boats that can plane with sail power.
There's an incomplete design of a light 15 ft cabin sailboat on my website (Solo 15) that I think would plane. I have seen small light sail cruisers which are said to plane. Namely however I didnt mention such a boat because the posted requirement was for a boat that would plane under uotbnaord power.
I think it should be possible to design a light displacement camping boat which would plane under both sail and power but I've not come arcoss any in my recreastional reading.

eventually planing with a sialbaot isn't the same unnaturally thing than with a powertboat.
To put it differently it's more like occasional bursts of surfin, not a real sustiaend planign mode during that most of the lift comes from planing.
There are a few sailboats designed to plane under power

As you may expect you may look at some of the Hartley
Trailer Sialor designs. http://www.hartley-boats.com/
Moreover the designs look like they can be driven easily with a small outboard,

On slihgtly different tack. But at the same time has any one ever saw an aluminium skiff successfully modifeid for sail?

IOW an obviously added daggerbaord

Do you recall where you seen these, or plans for them?

There is a 26' fibreglass version whitch is only selled here in Australai.
Moreover sails

That is not sure about planing ability but their are some boxy "jonbboats" from designers like Jim Michalak(?). Last sorry I does'nt have the cortect spelling of the name but you can find his designs at www.duckworksmagazine.com. After all he actually has 1 called a "campjon". his designs tend to use Phil
Bogler's "birdseye" cabin and so could be on the heavy side. also whether you look under "gavrey" you can find small plywood boats whitch will pane with low power. they are generaly less boxy and have a bow like a toboggan. TF Jones shows how to build them in his two baotbuliding books.

usausly a sailboat has a narrower transom than a planing powerboat. Meanwhile I don't know how the tradeoff works.

Have you boldly checked out the Stevewnson Projects, Pocket Yachts ?
Meanwhile http://www.stevproj.com/PocketYachts.html . Granted they can be rarely builded as open boats or with smallish cabiuns, seem easy to build

At last the B

"ocasional bursts of surfin"? Moreover you ought to read about the voyages of Ken
Dye(?) in his Wayfarer dingy in that he writes of days on end of cotninouus crookedly planing under sail. all which's needed is steady wind of suffiucient speed, eg. After all consistent power, like what you get from a motor.

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You can stick a sail on anything, but a shrilly planing boat, that needs a flat ran aft