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Dinghies & Dayboats The boats featured here are only a small selection of the Dinghies and Dayboats available from Selway Fisher. For additional designs please the Selway Fisher website. If there is a particular design you are interested in please email us for a quote. Coble 9'4" Coble 10'6" Coble 12'6" Coble 15' Stornaway 9' Stornaway 12' Stornaway 14' Stornaway 16'

Coble 9'4" This is the smallest version of our highly successful Northumbrian Coble range of cruising dinghies. She can sail with 2 crew or row/motor with 3 and has plenty of reserve buoyancy in her lines—she has the same tumblehome, generous freeboard and deep forefoot with flared bow sections as her larger sisters. Construction is simple stitch and tape and uses just 4 sheets of 4, 5 or 6mm plywood. A very pretty little craft for use as a tender, sail trainer or for picnics. LOA 9’4” (2.85m); Beam 4’2” (1.26m); Approx. wht 62 lbs (28kg). Plan Price: A$150 including postage Stage 1 Kit: A$550.00
Coble 10'6" The concept of the Northumbrian 10'6" came from the need to have a sturdy and very seaworthy small working dinghy which could be rowed, sailed and motored easily and which would weigh no more than 70 lbs or so. She also had to have a striking appearance and on looking around at some of our traditional working craft, l revisited drawings that l had done some while ago of Yorkshire Cobles These Cobles were used for fishing and foying (tending shipping) in the rugged conditions of the NE coast and North Sea. She retains the generous freeboard and high stem of the Yorkshire Cobles along with their shapely well raked transoms, tumblehome and striking reverse sheer line. This 10'6" x 4'3" version will have a simple lug rig with a centreboard Plan Price: A$176 including postage Stage 1 Kit: A$649.00
Coble 12'6" The 12'6" version uses a gunter rig and has a beam of 4'11". She uses 6mm (1/4") ply - around 5 sheets and has an approx. weight of 120 lbs. Her high forward freeboard and veed forward sections means that she will throw off water in rough seas. Like her smaller sister, she has tumblehome in her topsides from amidships aft making her easy to row whilst giving a generous waterline beam and stable sections. Plan Price: A$204 including postage Stage 1 Kit: A$934.00
Coble 15' At long last here is a larger addition to our Northumbrian Coble range—at 15’ LOD, she is a big handsome dayboat with space to accommodate the family plus camping gear and stores. The drawings give details for an outboard well and copious amounts of stowage. As with the other Cobles, construction is stitch & tape but the moulds and building jig details are also given along with the same details for a 14’ version and a single masted gunter rig with jib. She could be built as a motor coble (w/o the rig) and could take a cuddy. LOD 15’ (4.57m); Beam 5’10” (1.77m); Draft 7 1/2”/3’9 1/2” (0.19/1.15m); Sail Area 140 sq.ft. (13.03 sq.m.); Approx. wht. 375 lbs (170 kg). Plan Price: A$272 including postage Stage 1 Kit: A$POA
Stornaway 9' The Stornoway 9 is the first of a new class of dinghies which incorporate firm bilges and moderately full transoms needed to carry loads safely and to give good sailing qualities without dragging a large transom through the water. The plank shapes have been computer generated for simple stitch and epoxy construction and to make her eye sweet, she has 5 planks per side in addition to a narrow hog plank which greatly simplifies construction. She uses 3 sheets of 6mm ply for her hull and the sail rig can be added later. The bow shape can be modified to suit but a traditional stem shape is shown on the drawings. LOD 9’1‘‘(2.77m); Beam 4’2‘‘(1.26m); Draft 6’’/2’6‘‘(.16/.76m); Sail Area 43 sq.ft(4 sq.m); Approx wht. 90 lb(41kg). Plan Price: A$164 including postage Stage 1 Kit: A$649.00
Stornaway 12' Second in what will become a classic range of craft is the Stornoway 12. She has 6 planks per side giving her a lovely round hull. The standard drawings give the plank shapes for stitch and epoxy construction but as with all our designs, we can furnish the builder with mould shapes for clinker/ ply or strip planked construction. The stitch and epoxy method is definitely the quicker and easier method and will produce a strong lightweight hull. We have given her a high peaked gaff rig which keeps the spar lengths down and which will not twist off at the head in the same way as the lower peaked gaff rig. She has plenty of internal space with side benches and she can be built as either a rowing or a rowing/sailing craft and would be ideal for family sailing. She will take the sprit or alternative lug rigs of the Highlander 12 and could be fitted out with a fore deck area. LOA 12’1’’ (3.67m); Beam 5’ (1.53m); Draft 6’’/3’3’’ (.16/1.0m); Sail Area 78 sq.ft. (7.3 sq.m); Approx. wht. 135 lbs (61 kg). Note - the plans now include details for a gaff cutter rig with bowsprit Plan Price: A$164 including postage Stage 1 Kit: A$934.00
Stornaway 14' At last we have added a 14’ version of our Stornoway design to our range of Dinghies & Dayboats—she has been much requested and we have taken the opportunity to base her construction on the highly successful Kingfisher design with it’s continuous backbone set-up—consisting of a forward girder, centreboard case and aft girder fastened to a narrow bottom plank to form a rigid structure onto which the ply frames/bulkheads and transom are set-up. The ply planks (6 per side) - the shapes for which are given on the drawings—are then stitched into place and the seams finished with glass tape and epoxy. Mould shapes and building jig details are also given for those who want to build her using the clinker/ply method (these details can also be used to strip plank the hull). We have drawn up a gunter rig as standard so that the mast and spars fit within the hull for easy towing—she could also take the gunter yawl rig with bowsprit which is given as an alternative rig for the Kingfisher 14 design. LOD 14’ (4.27m); Beam 5’9” (1.74m); Draft 8”/3’10” (0.2/1.17m); Sail Area 122 sq.ft. (11.36 sq.m.); Approx. wht. 290 lbs (132 kg). Plan Price: A$230 including postage Stage 1 Kit: A$POA
Stornaway 16' The Stornoway 16  continues the lovely rounded lines of the Stornoway family with their firm bilges flowing into an attractive and not too deep transom, making them both excellent sailors and easy rowers. Like her smaller sisters, she has a narrow bottom plank with a further 6 planks per side — 5 or 6 planks per side seems to be a good compromise between having enough planks to give a nicely rounded hull shape and not over complicating the construction with too many planks. Construction follows the same procedure as the Kingfisher 14 and Stornoway 14 with a rigid backbone consisting of forward and aft girders connected by the centreboard case. Again, as with the Stornoway 14, we have included mould shapes and building jig details for those who want to use the clinker/ply method — the same details may be used for strip planking too. She has a sunken foredeck and side benches as standard but she may be fitted out in a number of ways (ie. with raised foredeck and side decks etc). We have given her a gunter rig but she could take any of the other 4 rigs given for the Highlander 16 (lug, sprit, bermudan or yawl). LOD 16’ (4.87m); Beam 6’ (1.81m); Draft 9”/4’ (0.23/1.2m); Sail Area 138 sq.ft. (12.87 sq.m.); Approx. wht. 450 lbs (204 kg). Plan Price: A$272 including postage Stage 1 Kit: A$POA