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The Norwalk Islands Sharpies, cruiser/racing yachts, designed by legendary designer of the Laser, Bruce Kirby.
Bruce has designed a much bigger Laser for grown ups, from 18' to 43'.

Bruce Kirby is arguably the most successful sailboat designer of this era. Modern designer meets traditional workboat. The Laser Sonar etc etc and Americas Cup involvement. In recent times, the Norwalk Island Sharpies series. Bruce conceived the Norwalk Islands Sharpies line of yachts out of the need for a shallow, capable boat to access his own slowly silting waterway in Rowayton, on the edge of Long Island Sound. The Sharpie type was a natural choice. The Rowayton Norwalk islands area of Connecticut was a famed oyster ground. The light, shallow, crossplanked, unstayed cat ketch sharpies were ubiquitous in this area, boats that could great loads of ousters across breaking bars to get to market early and safely. A crew of two was the norm, and the low sides facilitated the tonging of oysters from the shallow seabed. The Norwalk Islands Sharpies are what happens when a racing and performance aesthetic meets workboat commonsense and heritage.

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Re: NIS 18+ yawl - Olly La Douce
Hi all, I will be honest and did the calculation again, it's a + of 7% in every direction and as a result 25% in the third dimension. ;-)) Have a nice weekend
Posted - Sun Oct 4, 2009 6:14 pm
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Re: NIS 18+ yawl - Olly La Douce
NIS BOATS World Wide Home of Bruce Kirby's Norwalk Islands Sharpies Computer cut kits for licensed plans/file holders for NIS, Oughtred and other Designers.
Posted - Fri Oct 2, 2009 7:58 am
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Re: NIS 18+ yawl - Olly La Douce
As I said in the first answering I made it by changing the value for inch in cm. 1inch = 2,72cm instead of 2,54cm. I built her in metric and she is increased
Posted - Fri Oct 2, 2009 7:43 am
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Re: NIS 18+ yawl - Olly La Douce
Ahh, so I'm not going mad then.... I did gather that it is a lengthened version because you mentioned increased stability, which I thought would not be the
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Re: NIS 18+ yawl - Olly La Douce
Appendix: You are right it is a lenghtened hull, but I did it personaly. You can not buy plans for it, but it's easy to do. ... Robert Meyer meyerobert@...
Posted - Thu Oct 1, 2009 6:29 pm
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