Plans of the Colleen

The Colleen has a waterline length of 17 ft, and a beam of 6 ft 6 ins. The overall length was intended to be 20 ft but was changed to 22 ft to give a raking transom. A keel/centreboard, clinker-built boat she had 5 cwt in her keel, and a mainsail of 200 sq ft and jib of 50 sq ft.

The centreplate is similar to that of James Doyle's Water Wag design of 1899.

The original design had a pivoting rudder, but other options were later sanctioned by the DBSC committee.

Dimensions
LOA 22 ft (6.71 m)
LWL 17 ft (5.18 m)
Beam 6.5 ft (2 m)
Keel 5 cwt (254 kg)
Centreplate 1 cwt (50 kg)
Sail Area 250 sq ft (23.24 sq m)
Displacement 750 kg

 

Plans


The Builders of the revival prototype COLLEEN BAWN Classic Sailboats is a North Wales based company specialising in building popular classes of traditional wooden sailing boats, such as the Dublin Bay Water Wag and the Seabird Half-Rater.

The company was formed recently to take over and expand the existing business of “JE Jones - Boatbuilders”, and is a partnership between John Jones and Andy Long. John has been building fine quality boats for many years and was responsible for building the Colleen mould and the prototype boat, COLLEEN BAWN.

You may view their website here: www.classicsailboats.co.uk

 

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