Denman Marine Newsletter

Hi <<First Name>>, and welcome to the latest Denman Marine newsletter.

In this month's newsletter we have;

Lighthouse Tender Peapod
ClassGlobe 5.80
$200 off Grain HomeGrown DIY surfboard kits
Customer Build Update

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The Lighthouse Tender Peapod base kit and plans and manual package are now available via our website!

This design is modeled on the "peapods" indigenous to Maine. "Peapod" is a somewhat amorphous term for a double-ended rowing-sailing boat, used for inshore lobstering, fishing, and general utility such as tending lighthouses. Thus the design name: Lighthouse Tender. Designer John C. Harris was inspired by the "Old Sailing Peapod" from Washington County, Maine, detailed in American Small Sailing Craft, Howard Chapelle's indispensable reference work of traditional designs. The boat in American Small Sailing Craft was built "about 1886" and its hull shape recorded by Chapelle in 1937.

A good peapod is stable enough to allow the crew to stand and retrieve heavy lobster pots over the side. Rowing qualities are central to the design, but sailing rigs were added whenever much distance needed to be covered. Stable and easily driven, they make fine sailboats. Traditional working peapods were extinct by the 1960's, but thanks to Chapelle and others the type found a new life as a pleasure boat.

A traditional peapod is really hard to build. It took John Harris the better part of 20 years to translate the Maine peapod's subtlety of shape and character into a design that can be built easily using stitch-and-glue techniques, without a complicated mold or complex joinery.

The Lighthouse Tender rows and sails beautifully, upwind and down. It's stable and, like its traditional forebears, carries a heavy load. Though the Lighthouse Tender is 18" shorter than the Skerry, its payload is 45% larger, at 650lbs (295kg).

Patient first-time boat builders who have some experience with epoxy and fiberglass will do fine with the Lighthouse Tender, especially working from a pre-cut kit. CLC has gone to tremendous lengths to simplify assembly without compromising the boat's appearance or function. Most builders will probably have built something smaller like a kayak or a dinghy before taking on this project.

The Lighthouse Tender Peapod's payload is about 650 pounds (295kg) set up for rowing. About 75 pounds (34kg) less for sailing. The stripped hull weighs about 160 pounds (73kg). Fully rigged and with gear aboard, the weight is around 220 pounds (100kg). Expect to spend about 200 hours building a Lighthouse Tender Peapod with a yacht finish.

Both the Lighthouse Tender Peapod base kit, and plans and manual package are now available, so head on over to our Lighthouse Tender Peapod page to place your order today. Otherwise please don't hesitate to get int contact with any queries you may have.

Denman Marine is proud to announce that we have been chosen as the Australian supplier for Don McIntyre's ClassGlobe 5.80 kit.

There is nothing in the world like the ClassGlobe 5.80! Ocean and Offshore capable? full of adventure and challenge to race for a few hours, days or weeks? solo or with friends? that you can build yourself with simple tools and no previous experience, or get professional help, then you are set to sail around the bay or over the horizon. Take it home on a trailer or container ship to another country. This is the reality of the ClassGlobe 5.80…The choice is yours, but it starts here! The plans cost Euro$300 and the FUN comes for FREE!. The 5.80 Family is waiting to welcome you.…….Don McIntyre

The McIntyre ClassGlobe 5.80 is a SIMPLE, AFFORDABLE, SAFE, Extreme weather ocean capable, easily handled, FUN to sail (and build) fully self-righting yacht. Features include, Basic plywood epoxy construction, bow crash box, three watertight compartments. Six full frames, two watertight bulkheads, pine stringers and oak floors. The hull is covered with sustainable plantation 10mm plywood. Central bottom strip of plywood 20 mm. Deck covered with 8 mm. The hull is then laminated with epoxy and glass. A 142 degrees point of vanishing stability with central, strong skeg supported outboard rudder with three sets gudgeons and pintles, allowing simple effective trim tab wind vane steering. A simple overbuilt steel fabricated Keel, with lead bulb, two x 2mtr bunks, bunks or on the cabin sole, or an athwartship bunk by lifting a floor panel. A secure comfortable cockpit, two transom balancing Dagger boards, quick closing companionway hatch/door (Or 50 x 50 Deck hatch closure) with 360-degree visibility observation cab with 1.65mtr headroom under and 1mtr headroom while sitting on a bunk.

We have already begun cutting kits, with several orders having been placed already. Currently we can supply the following components:

CNC cut plywood and solid timber components.
Stringer chine log kit
Floor timbers including CNC cut MDF templates
CNC cut MDF templates for poly-carbonate windows

Get in touch with us today for more details and to discuss your ClassGlobe 5.80. For those who are serious about joining the ClassGlobe 5.80 family, the first step is to BUY the Globe 5.80 Plans and get your hull registration number.

For the rest of July, all Grain DIY HomeGrown surfboard kits are $200 off, use the coupon code 200GRHGKIT during checkout to take advantage of this offer. Applicable to Grain HomeGrown kits only*.

While some woodworking experience can be helpful, if you’re good with your hands, can work carefully with an attention to detail and follow written instructions, you should be build your own surfboard with great success. Most people take 60-80 hours of hands-on time to complete a board. With glue and epoxy drying times, the fastest you can complete a board from a kit is two to three weeks. However most people build boards over several months or more, picking away at it little by little as time allows.

Grain developed the kits before wood surfboard kits existed anywhere else, and from the beginning, they've wanted them to be complete, comprehensible and above all, do-able. We support our kit builders by phone, email, and in person.

So head over to our Grain DIY surfboards now and select your surfboard from the various designs on offer.

*This offer is valid from 01/07/20 till 31/07/20 and is applicable only to Grain Home Grown kits. Excludes plans, frame sets, and Rocker lift sets. Shipping for kits is tailored to suit individual orders and will be quoted separately. Please apply the coupon code exactly as above during checkout (case sensitive).

Customer Build Update

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