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Bonnie--An 18 1/2' Plywood Cruiser

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Boat Designs from the 1940's: Treasures from the Past

BONNIE

 

Bonnie is the neat little 18 ˝’ shoal draft plywood sloop shown being lowered into the water on the “Old Boats” home page. Visitors to our “Old Boats” site have requested that we upload the plans for Bonnie a number of times. We agree that she deserves to be brought back to life before the yellowed pages where she is featured disintegrate completely. So here she is, folks. She is our most ambitious project yet from the standpoint of enhancing and uploading old boat plans. Because of the number of plans pages associated with this small cruiser, we’ve had to split them up onto two separate pages in order for them to load in a timely manner. At the end of this page you will find a link for the additional pages of Bonnie plans.

 

Table of Offsets Bonnie

Dimensions given in feet, inches and eighths of inches to inside of planking

Half breadths from center line:

Station

1

2

3

4

5

6

Transom

Keel

0-1-0

0-2-4

0-2-4

0-2-4

0-2-4

0-1-2

--

Keelson

0-1-6

0-4-0

0-4-0

0-4-0

0-4-0

0-2-0

--

Chine

1-3-2

2-4-4

2-10-7

3-0-6

2-9-2

2-2-7

--

Sheer

1-9-6

2-10-5

3-4-4

3-6-1

3-2-6

2-8-4

2-0-3

Depths below base line

Sheer

0-5-1

0-8-3

0-10-0

0-10-6

0-10-2

0-9-1

0-7-3

Chine

2-2-2

2-5-6

2-6-7

2-6-3

2-4-3

2-2-6

--

Keelson

2-10-4

3-1-6

3-2-3

3-1-6

2-11-5

2-8-4

--

 

Distances between stations

 

0-1

1-2

2-3

3-4

4-5

5-6

6-Transom

 

37 ˝”

32”

28”

30”

30”

30”

30”

 

 

Specifications

Length overall

18’ 1 ˝”

Length waterline

16’

Extreme beam

7’ 1”

Draft, board up

12”

Weight rigged

1050 lb.

Sail area

160 sq. ft.

Center board

3/8” iron-102 lb.

Auxiliary engine

3 h.p. air cooled

Planking and deck

Marine plywood

 

 

Click here to go to the remaining Bonnie plans pages.

 

This page last updated 2/15/03