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D4 Sailing Dinghy

November 10, 2005 on 5:23 pm | In D4 Building |

The D4 Sailing Dinghy is a simple Pram type design - a basic and practical 7′ 10″ boat.

It can be built as either a sailing of rowing dinghy as well as being suitable to use with a small outboard.

The great thing about the D4 sailing dinghy is that the basic plans are available for free download - which meant that since it would be the first boat that I would build, the initial outlay of cash would be reduced. I didn’t want to spend a whole heap of money to find out that I did not like sailing or that my boat building skills were non existent!

Details on the D4 can be found at bateau.com, but you will now find that it has been upgraded to the D5. The free plans can be found here.

I can vouch that the D4 has been fairly simple to build. It has no butt joints and all panels can be cut from a single sheet of plywood.

bateau.com reckon it can be built for less that $200. We’ll see