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The Drascombe Longboat is a type of open voyaging sailboat trademarked by John Watkinson which he designed and built in the period 1965-79 and sold in the United Kingdom (UK). They have wide and deep cockpits, adaptable boomless rigs and high bulwarks. Later boats of this name were manufactured and sold in the United States as well. Longboat production began in 1970 according to the vessel's Wikipedia page at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drascombe.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding has been formally licensed by the Watkinson family to build the Drascombe Longboat.
This first vessel, on which construction began in January, 2014, will be built for the National Outdoor Leadership School in Mexico (NOLS Mexico) www.nols.edu/
and used by them for coastal voyaging in Mexico. www.nols.edu/courses/baja-coastal-sailing/
The Drascombe Longboat is 21 feet 9 inches long with a beam of 6 feet 3 inches. The vessels have a yawl rug, and carry 172 square feet of sail.
The vessel will weigh about 880 pounds when complete, although we expect that our version, modified to meet the requirements of NOLS Mexico will weight somewhat more than that. www.nols.edu/courses/locations/mexico/mxsemester.shtml
The UK-based Drascombe Association is a good source of information about John Watkinson and his wide variety of boats. www.drascombe-association.org.uk/drascombes.php. The Drascombe Association News (DAN) is their publication.
The Class of 2014 Contemporary program students under the direction of instructor Bruce Blatchley will build this boat of fiberglassed marine plywood and WEST System epoxy. For more about this program, see nwboatschool.org/programs/contemporary-2/
The sails will be built by Northwest Sails under the direction of Master Sailmaker Sean Rankins.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades. We sell our boats to help support the School. Give us a call should you like to discuss our building a boat for you.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
Some collection of completed orders. It is not often possible to put together so many of our creations that has been made in a while. This morning before saying "Goodbye" to our work we had a chance to document this happen.