STELLA 78

Stella is a one-man gaff sloop design, to be built with the strip-planking method. 
She has a steel centreboard with a ballast bulb (altogether 10-15kg) that can pivot back underneath the hull and makes her quite stiff. 
The steering is done with a line that is attached to the tiller and goes in a loop around the seating compartment.
There are four lines from the mast-top: jib, peak, throat and a centreboard hoist with a 3:1 purchase.

Drawings are available in three versions:

                                                                  Stella 78 has the focus on low weight. The framing is made by 6mm plywood and the hull is quite low. 
                                                                  Stella 82  is one step bigger in all directions and has the  framing made of 9mm plywood. 
                                                                  Stella 90 is a stretched version of Stella 82 

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At a very late stage, I decided to extend the seating area backwards.

 

 

 

Projektet Grace O´Malley gav mersmak, särskilt när hon visade sig vara så rolig att segla. Men redan efter dom första seglingarna föddes tanken på en förbättrad version. Det var främst tre saker som skulle kunna bli bättre:

1) Vikten. Att ensam hiva upp 30 kg båtskrov på taket är fullt möjligt men det har lämnat vissa spår i lacken.... Om vikten minskas till drygt 20 kg blir det mycket enklare.

2) Centerbordet. Den sjö som jag oftast seglar i har ett medeldjup på 2 meter och en hel del stora stenar som ligger betydligt närmare ytan. Hittills har jag bara gått på dom i svaga vindar. På Stella blir centerbordet ledat så att det kan svänga upp under skrovet om man träffar en sten.

3)Skrovfinishen. Övning ger färdighet och det finns en hel del att förbättra på det området.

 

Grace O´Malley turned out surprisingly well, but there was still room for improvements. The decision to go ahead with a new project was taken before Grace was launched. The three major improvement aims was:

1) The weight. To put a 30kg boat hull on the car roof singlehanded is possible but tends to leave marks on the car paint. Bringing it down towards 20+ kg would save the car.

2) The Daggerboard. The nearby lake has an average depth of only 2 metres and a lot of submerged rocks shallower than that. So far I have only hit them in weak winds, but Stella will have a centerboard that can swing up beneath the hull.   

3) The hull finish. The second attempt at strip-planking should give a better result then the first one wich was far from perfect.

 

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Link to her sister ship Grace O´Malley

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