Hannu's Portuguese Dinghy

[Charlie43]

Hannu's Portuguese Dinghy is another boat I've built that I've revisited many a time on the drafting table, trying to see what changes might be made to it.

The original is cute. That's the best word for it. It's also a toy boat, almost a swimming pool toy. But I think the boat is worth building, just because it can be cut from just one and half sheets of ply. Hannu builds it S&G, which is a method I hate. So my version, at 3" inches longer and 6" inches narrower, is intended for traditional, POF construction. At 200 pounds displacement and 84" inches on the waterline, the nose is slightly immersed, and the stern is barely clear. By contrast, Hannu's heavily-rockered version, has both the nose and stern clear, which means porpoising as one rows, and there is only 70" inches on the waterline, which means his version is 1/3 MPH slower than mine and likely won't carry as easily or far between oar strokes.

 In short, he builds a more burdensome boat. I build a faster one. Tradeoffs. Always tradeoffs.