THE DOLPHIN 19 KETCH
The 19 basal Ketch is the latest accession to the Copper Cable fleet. She aswell is a frameless boat, an continued Dolphin 16 with a brace of additions. The ambit are 19 basal by six basal axle and she has a 20 inch freeboard but this can be continued to 22 inches at the amount of the arduous band curve. There is a 5 basal foredeck that leads aback to the capital mast. This mast is anchored anon abaft the bulkhead that the accouter itself sits on. There is abounding accumulator beneath this accouter for added abutment or accessory accumulator as required. Entrance to this breadth is through the agent in the bulkhead.
The ability has the best of two keel configurations, an eighteen inch keel or a twelve inch keel abyss that runs approx. two thirds forth the boat's length. This is complete from solid Oregon and provides the able courage bare for the frameless design. There is aswell accouterment for accompanying balloon keels that acquiesce simple beaching and use of a hardly added bank keel, about 9/10 inches. Ballast for the baiter is four advance ingots that are congenital into the keel itself and is about 150 lbs in weight. It is envisaged that the boat, ballasted, should be in the breadth of some 450 lbs (210 kgs) unloaded.
The rig is a accompanying mast Ketch agreement with a jib breadth of 19 aboveboard feet, the mainsail, 56.5 sq. anxiety and the mizzen mast, 24 sq. anxiety in area. This is approx 100 sq. anxiety absolute captain area. The rig is a continuing lug, boomless with a top batten about eight anxiety long. A accoutrement rig is aswell accessible for this boat, in actuality the aboriginal Dolphin 19 chump in South Australia has autonomous for this rig. The ability is advised to captain with jib and mizzen abandoned and should accommodate abundant added allowance aboard in this configuration. For any abiding jib/mizzen agreement a hardly aloft jib breadth would accommodate bigger captain antithesis and power.
The accompanying masts are either bright Oregon or bright bandbox but the bandbox another would be adequately expensive! They are planned annular from four inch aboveboard banal and are quick to accomplish if an electric planer is used. They are blood-soaked in adhesive and afresh accomplished in anti ultra violet adorn to anticipate 'milking' of the epoxy. An abnormal affection of this architecture is the accompanying galvanized wire stays on anniversary mast. This gives a acceptable attending but aswell adds a cogent assurance factor. The solid Oregon alternation plates, placed outboard of the bark accommodate an adorable old ancient archetypal attending to this actual able little sailing craft.
As with all the Dolphin ambit the bark is beamy and commences with a vee sectioned bow that avalanche abroad to a adulate 7 amount bark basal to accommodate affluence of axle stability. There is no attic in this architecture but that is not to say that one could not be calmly added if required. The primary acumen for not including a attic in the aboriginal architecture was for admission to the balloon breadth for charwoman and to anticipate baptize lying in the Aluminum Wiring baiter unseen, a primary could could could cause of accident in boats larboard abandoned for a while.
