nesting/sailing dingy, plans

[whatoo]

I have a 12' sailing/rowing dingy and have been looking for some plans to build a nesting/sailing dingy. The plans are in a library book and I don't know the name of the book? Help

[yachtvalhalla]

I built a scaled down version of the Chameleon nesting dinghy as described on my website at:

http://yachtvalhalla.net/gecko/gecko.html

It's Danny Greene's design and contact information is at that page.

I've also seen plans advertised such as at this link:

http://www.bateau.com/products.php?cat=9

Hope this helps. Terry

[sailr4]

Got the plans from www bateau com

I did not build the sailing option, but it had one.

http://www.geocities.com/sailr4/dinghy.html

[paulk]

The Woodenboat site http://www.woodenboat-ubb.com/vbulletin/upload/ would be a good place to find out about different nesting dinghy designs. The magazine has had articles on building several, if I recall correctly. The people on the forum there offer much good advice, and can gauge things to your skill level as well as the size you're seeking.

[rgvandewalker]

Dave Gerr, a marine architect and columnist, wrote a pretty popular
book "The Nature of Boats" that's a compendium of columns.
It describes a "nesting dinghy", and gives plans. There's
a lot of plans on the net. B&B Yachts has a -family- of nesting
dinghy plans, and the 10' one is a type-raceable dinghy,
as well as constructible. It has finer lines than Gerr's.
There's also a preconstructed fiberglass dinghy available on
the west coast of the U.S.