Me

​Cranky, Old, Horrible and Impossible – COHI for short – and an Engineer, grazier, firefighter, diver,

     one time traveller, father, cynic, etc. etc. and all round Damn Fine Fella (DFF) but also …..

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             .....  a Retired (Navy) Naval Architect ! ~~ designing some boats (and other things)  to wile away

                           the years between retiring and The End ....

Designs Completed, Commenced and Contemplated

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• Gentleman’s Launch ~ steel, 12m / 14 tonne / 8 knot launch intended for debauchery and diving

                 (Ready to build).

• Schooner 19 ~ 12m strip planked twin keel cruising schooner yacht (suspended pro tem – maybe

                 converted to single keel).

• RIB style dinghy ~ ply / fibreglass (ready to build).  (Simpler one contemplated). 

• Schooner JACK EVERYMAN ~ 12m marine ply / fiberglass,  S&G,  cruising schooner (Ready to build).

• Paddle Houseboat BARBARA ROSALIND ~ for riverine/sheltered waters ONLY!! (coming) (mayhap).

• Twin keel trailable yacht (?) KING FRED ~ ??

• ?????​​​​​​​​​​