Melissa - a stable 12ft 6ins clinker plywood sailing dinghy - adapted for outboard use

Melissa was completed in April 2012

- May 2014 - here are some more recent photos.........



......Towing an oyster dredge.....small jib set....

...showing the self-tacking horse for a loose-footed sail in action.... note provision of upper tiller position over the transom top - for use when standing up with petrol outboard....

....at rest - the forward thwart is the daggerboard, which can also stow on the aft deck. The middle thwart is a box which need not be carried - in this stows the Torqueedo outboard motor (and other useful items)...mast in forward position of mast box....

page under construction - more detail of the design and construction will follow (May 2014)







...some more photos...