Traditional wooden Boat Builder Scoltand: Argyll Classic Yacht Restoration

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New Boats We can build wooden boats of all types and construction from 8ft tenders to 50ft cruisers or motor boats. We give help and

advice with design spec. and layout. All boats are fastened with copper and bronze and finnished with fittings in keeping with the type

Tarbert Punt 12Ft 6

This boat was built for a Tarbert fishing family to replace an old Dickies of Tarbert Punt. There were no decent older boats left. She is built from Brazilian Mahogany on Oak backbone and ribs with larch seats and bottom boards.

Varnished through out and supplied with a pair of sweeps.

Port Banatyne skiff 15ft

Built for exploring small fresh water lochs this boat has a flat bottom for easy floating on and off the beach, she is built of a beautiful larch plywood which is extremely stiff and durable. She was equipped with a lug sail and electric outboard as well as a pair of hand made spoon oars, dagger board and lifting rudder.

The design originated from Ian Oughtred with a brief for a simple but shapely boat for a boatbuilding project we ran in the local high school, two 17ft rowing skiffs were built by the 5th year students in two weeks and raced on the canal.

Loch Gorm 14ft

African mahogany on oak, built for shallow water fishing in Loch Gorm on the island of Isley. She is built on the lines of the owners old boat which was of unknown origin.

She is relitavly beamy but with a small tramsom giving her a distinctive sweep to the sheer.

Loch Ard 16ft

Built to fit the owners boat house and to carry three adults and two dogs across loch Ard, she turned out a very nice long slender craft. With a firm bilge and wine glass shaped aft sections she was also stable and easily pushed through the water. She has a built in mahogany battery box mid-ships and an electric outboard.

Larch planking on an oak frame

Loch Fyne Skiffs

These boats were the fishing boats of Loch Fyne and the Scottish west coast in the late 1800 and early 1900.

This is the 100 year old, 20ft skiff Yerda in Campbeltown heritage museum. She is very typical of her type with a sloping keel giving depth aft, a rounded fore foot, a full wineglass shaped belly and a rounded canoe stern. She is rigged with a dipping lug sail and head sail on a very steeply raked mast and long bow sprit.

We are building a replica of this boat along with a Tarbert community group. The lines were taken off the original with a group of children and adults. They then lofted her out in the yacht club in Tarbert and made up the moulds. We have built the backbone and are planking her up with help from the children. They will complete the fit out and have already made spars and oars.

Here are two shots of Yerda after she was spruced up (not by us) just prior to being put in the meusum.

With their relatively high freeboard,and deep hulls these boats make very capable yachts, some larger boats built with a gaff ketch rig have done extensive ocean cruising.

We are develloping a range of these boats from a smaller vertion with centre board to a full cruising yacht.

Gaff Ketch Skiff 44ft

We have worked up a set of study drawings for a 44ft cruising yacht, something to give the current spate of Bristol Pilot Cutters a run for their money.

Fully planked up on her way off to be exibited at Crinan Classic boat festival.

She will now go back to the children and volunteers of Tarbert Loch Fyne for fitting out. The target is to be on the water for next spring.

The Scart

This was a commission to build a replacement boat for a double diagonal dinghy which had reached the end of its days.

We used the old boat to make a mould to lay up three layers of mahogany veneers on the hull. This made a very strong and light hull.

The boat was fitted out in solid mahogany with bronze hardware.

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