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One of our Tirriks "Lychee" sailing in Victorian waters For further information or to enquire about a completed Tirrik please contact us .  

Designer   - Iain Oughtred

Construction  -Glued Lapstrake (clinker) with centerboard and pivoting  rudder L.O.A   - 16’10”     Beam   -  5’4” Rig Options    -    Lug Sloop,   Gunter Yawl and     Gunter Sloop At 16'10" overall Tirrik is smaller all round than the Caledonia Yawl but is still a great daysailer for a couple or a single hander.The standard rig is a balanced lug which is very easy to use in a wide variety of conditions. A gunter sloop is another rig configuration available and we have also built a gunter rigged yawl. There are also a number of interior options available from a completely open boat to one with side bench seating and fore and aft decks.

Please note, Tirrik is not available in kit form.  

Denman Marine specialises in custom wooden boat building and repair. We utilise both traditional methods such as carvel or clinker and modern methods such as strip planking, cold molding or clinker plywood. We can custom build to any design - for example those by Iain Oughtred, David Payne, Paul Gartside, John Welsford, Mark Bowdidge, Francois Vivier, Atkin , Bolger B&B etc. We are a small team of Australian wooden boat builders based in Kettering Tasmania, and are the sole agents for both Chesapeake Light Craft (USA) wooden kit boats Australia and New Zealand, as well as Grain (USA) DIY wooden surfboard kits Australia and New Zealand , and Barton Marine products (UK). Denman Marine are proud builders of Wooden Boats in Australia.

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2011 Hand Built Tirrik

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Hand built wooden sailboat. This beautiful boat was hand built in 2011. A perfect boat for day sailing. This boat is built and designed to be able to motor, row or sail on rivers or lakes. It is also pretty and gets complements any where it is launched. It is a “Tirrik” design by Ian Oughtred.His plans were purchased and used in the custom build. Double ended Gaff rigged sloop, Swing keel. Plywood Lapstrake Construction 17 LOA 54 Beam Sail Area: 108 sqft 5 horse Nissan motor This boat can be rowed, sailed, or motored around easy launching, local lakes or bigger adventures, solid boat in very good shape Motor fits in a well, and can be stored under hatch, also additional storage and fishing rod storage Current OR registration

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The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

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This, the revised Ness Boat design, has been modified for greater beam and sail carrying capacity. The name Tirrik is Shetland for a Common Tern – the 3 revised double-enders all featuring tern in their names. The intention has been to devise boats capable of accepting a wide variation in crew weight, and experience, being reasonably stable and comfortable in a wide variety of conditions, while being handy and responsive on all points. The carrying capacity is very good, so that the boats are particularly good for ‘dinghy-cruising’.

The standard rig is the standing or balanced lug, which is nearest in form to the traditional dipping lug. It is a safe and manageable rig in a variety of conditions, easily set and lowered eve on the water. The Gunter sloop rig is a smaller version of the older Shetland (1950’s) racing rigs; it suits more serious sailors who don’t mind the extra cost and complication.

16′ 10″ – 5.13m

5′ 4″ – 1.64m

Weight (kg)

108 sq ft – 10 sq m

Time to build (estimate)

280-340 hours

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Specifications:.

• Making planks-1
• Making planks-2
• Vacuum pressing planks
• Planking up
• Faired & sanded
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Construction:

The shapely and seaworthy hulls of the Shetland Yoles inspired Iain Oughtred to design "Tirrik", but for modern materials and construction methods. Iain's design called for a wide bottom plank of 3/8" marine plywood and 3 topside strakes of 1/4" marine plywood. Instead I made the bottom planks of 3/8" white cedar with 2 layers of 6 oz fiberglass cloth in epoxy, vacuum-pressed to each side. The top strakes are 1/4" white cedar with 2 layers of 4 oz fiberglass in epoxy, vacuum-pressed to each side. This results in light planks that are extremely tough and stronger than the equivalent thickness of marine plywood.

The decks are attached below the top strake and are 1/4" cedar coated top and bottom with 6 oz fiberglass cloth in epoxy. Bulkheads, hatches and centerboard case are 1/4" marine plywood. Side benches and floorboards are cedar. Ash was used for the gunnels, floors and tiller. The central thwart, breasthooks, knees, keel and stems are cherry and the centerboard and kick up rudder are laminated from alternating grain pieces of cherry and streamlined. A smooth coating of graphite in epoxy was applied to the bottom boards, centerboard and rudder.

All spars are hollow spruce, with jaws, cleats, eyes, fairleads and other small fittings shaped from apple. Sails were made by Michelle Stevens Sailloft in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Two pairs of 10' cedar oars are supplied (one regular and one spoon bladed), made to Capt. Pete Culler's specifications.

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Nathan Richie and Jeroes Porters launch a Tirrik at the Boatbuilding Academy

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Nathan Richie and Jeroen Porters built this Iain Oughtred -designed Tirrik at the Boatbuilding Academy and launched it at the big student launch on the 5th December.

Although set up as a rowing boat in these photos, the 16ft 10in Tirrik is Iain O’s take on a Ness boat . Double-ended, glued clinker in mahogany ply, the it has a beam of 5ft 4in, a centreboard and, since leaving the Academy, has been rigged as a sailing boat.

Nathan is going to use it to sail with his family. I gather the Tirrik will be featured in the next edition of Water Craft magazine, btw.

As the final photo shows, the designer called in on the Academy during the build – it was meant to be a brief visit, but he but ended up staying overnight and giving the students an impromptu lecture on boat design with illustrations.

Nathan was previously an IT consultant who owned a chain of clothing shops, but he always wanted to get into the marine industry and has previously earned RYA Yachtmaster and TDI diving certificates. It seems to run in the family, for while Nathan was at the Academy, his son Craig joined the 8-week woodworking skills course. They’re hoping to build a 40ft-ish boat when time and money allows.

Jeroenhas just applied for a job at the North Norwegian Boat Museum . He has also bought the plans for a Francois Vivier le Seil 18 , which he plans to start building if – and when – he moves to Norway . His weblog of the course is online – it’s in Dutch but, even if you can’t read, it the photos are worth looking at.

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Family working to build Scandinavian sailboat in Lakeside

The Milone family's Norwegian-style sailboat project, seen Wednesday, May 26, 2021, is well underway at the Montana Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)

Alex Berry, director of the Montana Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside, checks in Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on the progress of the Milone family — Colin, Karen and their son, Jake — who are constructing a Norwegian-style sailboat. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)

Thirteen-year-old Jake Milone, who is leading his parents through the construction of a Norwegian-style sailboat, traces a pattern for the rudder of on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at the Montana Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)

Jake Milone, who is leading his parents through the construction of a Norwegian-style sailboat, carefully cuts the outline of the board that will become the rudder with help from his mother, Karen, on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at the Montanan Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)

Jake Milone, who is leading his parents through the construction of a Norwegian-style sailboat, carefully cuts the outline of the board that will become the rudder on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at the Montanan Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)

Colin Milone, whose family is building a Norwegian-style sailboat, cuts lengths of board for the project on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at the Montanan Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)

Colin Milone, whose family is building a Norwegian-style sailboat, marks connection points where the hull meets the supports while son Jake and wife Karen look on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at the Montana Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)

Intricate plans the Milone family is using to build a Norwegian-style sailboat project, seen Wednesday, May 26, 2021, sit atop the vessel at the Montanan Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)

When 13-year-old Somers Middle School student Jake Milone began telling his parents two years ago that he wanted to build a Norwegian-style sailboat, they didn't bat an eye.

Such an ambitious undertaking may seem like a flight of fancy for most Jake's age, but Colin and Karen Milone knew their son was serious. Now, hard at work alongside Jake, spending several hours each week working to build a tirrik sailboat at the Montana Wooden Boat Foundation in Lakeside.

"As someone looking in on this from the outside, I at first asked myself if this family would be able to complete this project," said Alex Berry, the foundation's executive director. "Sure, they see each other all the time, but would they be able to come in here and build a boat together? So far, the answer to that question has been a huge yes."

Born and raised in Alaska until he was 7, Jake has no Scandinavian ancestry that the family knows of. But that didn't keep him from becoming fascinated with everything Nowegian, from boat building to Norse mythology.

"We don't have Norwegian heritage that we know of, but I think there is a kindred appreciation with the Scandinavian way of life, especially for Jake being born and living in the subarctic of Alaska for half of his life," Colin Milone said.

A well-read student with blacksmithing experience and a knack for building things, Jake first had his parents looking into the possibility of attending a boat-building school in Norway while the COVID-19 pandemic had his school shut down. They went so far as to have a school picked out in Rissa, on the Fosen Peninsula in Trøndelag, Norway. Jake even began teaching himself Norwegian.

That dream was short-lived, though, as Norway soon closed its borders and the family learned that the school did not accept students younger than 18.

UNDAUNTED, JAKE and his family continued to ask around, hoping to find someone who could teach them the skills to make Jake's dream a reality. Time and again, they received the same answer: "You should go talk with Jon Derry."

Derry, the man responsible for keeping the 1929 wooden sailboats at the Flathead Lake

Lodge alive and well, also runs wooden boat building workshops at the Montana Wooden

Boat Foundation. After visiting with Derry and Berry at the foundation, the Milones soon learned that Derry was trained in the Norwegian style of boat building and was the perfect man to mentor them.

"It turns out that we didn't need to go all the way to Norway to find what we were looking for. We only had to go as far as Lakeside to find someone who could help teach us how to build the boat we wanted," Colin Milone said. "What are the odds of that?"

With a teacher and a building location nailed down, the next task was to decide on the exact design the family would choose for its boat build.

Jake, who had recently read a book set in Norway where the characters built a boat and go on a series of adventures, wanted to attempt the clinker-built construction common with Norwegian boats, thinking his blacksmithing experience would be useful in a process that uses overlapping planks riveted together to form the hull.

"That kind of thing has always interested me," he said, "so when I got the idea that I wanted to build a boat there was no doubt what style of boat it was going to be."

While Jake was originally dead-set on building a Norwegian faering using traditional methods, he and his family eventually decided to build a hybrid tirrik sailboat — a Norwegian design modified by the Scots — using more modern techniques.

WHILE THE Milone family boat building was scheduled to start at the end of 2020, sometimes life has a funny way of stepping in and altering the best-laid plans. After working out the details and arranging a schedule at the Boat Building Center in Lakeside, the pandemic put all boat building at the foundation on hold until new safety precautions could be put in place.

When construction finally got underway, Karen Milone thought the project would be perfect for her husband and son, but soon found herself with a hammer in hand, ready to help out.

"Originally, I thought this would be a project for the boys," she said. "I had never really thought about building a boat before, but I have always wanted to learn how to use tools. When they got to work, I figured having more hands would help the project and I just started helping."

Her "boys" were grateful for the help.

"She brings a skill set that is completely different from what Jake and I possess," Colin Milone said. "She is very detail-oriented and she is just a natural at this kind of work. It's really fun that we are all so into this project and get so excited about it."

With hours of work already behind them, the Milone's tirrik is beginning to take shape inside the Lakeside workshop. Under the watchful eye of Derry, the family continues the meticulous work of piecing together their boat.

"Having someone like Jon around has been amazing," Jake said. "He is super patient and willing to answer questions I know he has heard at least a thousand times. There is no way we could do this without him."

With no completion date set, Jake says he can't wait to take his friends out on Flathead Lake in his finished boat, but he and his family are quickly learning this will not be a short-term project.

"One of the hardest things for me has been realizing that every little thing you do affects some other aspect of the boat. There are a lot of choices to make along the way and there is no one right answer," Colin Milone said. "The time involved in this is something you might not think about when you first get started. This is going to be a long process, but it is so much fun. Every little part takes time, but it is all going to be worth it."

Reporter Jeremy Weber may be reached at 406-758-4446 or [email protected].

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Bev and Frank Salomonsen of Rochester, Minnesota, built this balanced-lug sailboat from plans of the Tirrik design by Iain Oughtred. They built the 16′10″ hull from okoume plywood planking, with stem and keel of white oak. They gave the white oak and mahogany deck a varnished finish to show off the beauty of the woods used. In this photograph, Frank, Bev, and their friend Captain Halvard Korsberg christen the boat NORSKA FLICKA last August at Leech Lake, Minnesota. You might see them sailing on any of Minnesota’s many lakes.

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U NA is a double-ended yawl built by Eddie Breeden in his garage in Midlothian, Virginia. The project took him 10 months, and after he launched UNA in mid-July this year at Mattaponi River at West Point, Virginia, he was often asked: “How long did it take you to build it?” He’d logged his time so had a precise answer—567 hours—but he often felt the question was really “Where did you find the time?” He had an answer, of sorts, for that too: “How much television do you watch each week?” Average Americans watch between 24 and 50 hours of TV per week, so he has a good point: Not watching TV adds up to enough time in 10 months to build two or three boats like UNA.

Iain Oughtred estimates 600 hours for building his Sooty Tern design, the most recent development in a line of sail/oar faerings that includes the Ness yawl, Caledonia yawl, Whilly Tern, Tirrik, and Arctic Tern. These designs have options for sloop or yawl, gunter or lug rigs; UNA carries a balance-lug main and Bermudan mizzen.

Here the main mast is set in its forward position for use along with the mizzen. It’s stepped in a box that guides the mast to its step and keeps the forward compartment watertight. When the mizzen is not raised, the main mast is set just aft of the foredeck .

The Sooty Tern has a length of 19′8″, a beam of 5′4 ½″, and a depth of 21″. The hull weighs around 300 lbs, 400 lbs fully rigged. The planking is 8mm okoume marine plywood, the gunwales ash. The thwarts and knees are white oak; the spars, floors, floorboards, foils, and side seats Douglas-fir; and the rudderhead, centerboard case cap, and deck hatches are cherry. Eddie built everything from scratch except for a few chandlery items such as blocks and deck cleats. His sails were made by Douglas Fowler Sailmakers of Ithaca, New York.

The rudder is controlled by a push-pull tiller that isn’t obstructed by the mizzen mast and easily shifts position along with the helmsman when tacking.

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Eddie, Beautiful Job! Just finished Nic Compton’s book, Iain Oughtred: A Life in Wooden Boats . Perhaps you’ve read it also. I’m pretty sure Iain would be favorably impressed with your product. Nic too.

Beautiful job of building. I wonder how this differs principally from the Caledonia yawl. Were the fore and aft decks add-ons from the original design? At least one New Zealand-built Caledonia, as seen on video, had even more extensive decking with a tilting outboard mounted through the aft deck. Poor for design purity perhaps, but useful in dead calms or working up a narrow channel or creek.

I passed this question along to Eddie. Here is his reply:

“Thanks for the props! The boats are principally the same length, but the older Caledonia Yawl is a bigger boat. With a taller shear and wider beam the CY has significantly more volume. Accordingly, 50 SF more sail area is included. My occasions to sail with a few Caledonias has thus far been limited, but my take is that the Sooty is a slightly faster boat. She is maybe 75-100 pounds lighter and the narrower hull is more easily driven. “As for a motor, she is a sail and oar boat requiring very little breeze to move her. Plans do show an engine well option. Complications of where to store an engine and fashioning a plug for the hole left are problematic in what is still a relatively small open boat. Generally, when the wind quits, the seas are calm enough for sustained rowing at 1.5 – 2 knots. Again, all she just needs a puff. I’ve been impressed with her abilities to windward though she is not a racing dinghy. What I love about engineless boats is that they give you the opportunity to improve your sailing. So, choose your conditions. “The decks are also an option. UNA’s are further modified with a curved overhang forward and hatches for easy access fore and aft. There are other more subtle detail changes, but she is per hull and rig a Sooty. Build either. You will love it.”

I outfitted my Caledonia yawl ALISON with the motor well shown in Iain Oughtred’s plans. It’s not meant to allow the outboard to kick up so it is a little inconvenient to pull the motor out of the well and stow it when coming ashore, but I wouldn’t want a longer well and a bigger opening in the hull. I stow the motor in chocks right next to the well so I can keep my feet planted and my legs braced when shifting the motor and avoid having to walk all that weight around the boat. I have a box that occupies the well and fairs the hull when the motor is not in place. Without it, water sloshes up through the well and into the boat while at speed under sail. The bottom of the box is 1/4″ plexiglass and gives me a clear view of the bottom when I’m in shallow water. I used to take great pride in making my way under sail or oars alone but bought a small 4-stroke outboard when I was building the ALISON as boat for cruising with my kids. The summer winds are either light or nonexistent and rowing would make passages between landfalls quite long and arduous. With the motor we make good time and I get to enjoy my family: As a father I much prefer being a slave to the the galley, cooking up meals while we’re underway, than being a galley slave, chained to the rowing bench.

Eddie, we remember you and your son from the Small Craft Festival at CBMM. Congrats on your beautiful boat and the awards you received there.

Hey Mark, I did read Compton’s book and enjoyed getting to know something about the boats and designer. When I bought my plans from Iain, he sent along an “addendum” to that book too. His footnote comments about his boats were worth having. Actually, I liked Iain’s “Clinker Plywood Building Manual” more as it pertained more to the task at hand. It’s a very good resource.

Thanks Bruce. The Mid Atlantic Small Boat Festival was one of the most fun events I’ve ever attended. Though there were too many years since the skipper last raced, I think UNA held her own (I just wish her builder had constructed a more rugged tiller!). Hope to see you next year.

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