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19FT Half Decked, Double-Ended Sloop Sjogin III Design #184

Sjogin III is a sturdy, seaworthy daysailer that evolved as a smaller, trailerable version of the 22ft double- ender Sjogin II (see sailboat section of this web site).  Both carry the Scandinavian influence of the original Sjogin which is thought to be based on a Norwegian Koster boat.  The plan set contains details of three construction methods, all of them suitable for a boat that may spent time out of the water in dry land storage. 

Construction: Cold molded, strip planked or glued clinker plywood.

Length on deck: 19 ft  0 ins Beam: 8 ft  0 ins

Draft, CB: up 1 ft  0 ins Draft, CB: down 4 ft 2 ins

Displacement: 1800 lbs Ballast: 550 lbs

Sailing rig: Gaff Sloop area: 218 sq.ft

Building time: 1200 hours Skill level: Intermediate 

Design #184: 6 Sheets

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Sojourn is a Sjogin III, a Paul Gartside design #184, a sturdy, seaworthy daysailer that evolved as a smaller, trailerable version of the 22ft double-ender Sjogin.

Planked with Vendia marine planks, bilge keels in lieu of CB, cabin added and yawl rigged.

LOA: 20'6" LWL : 19' Beam: 8' Draft: 18" Displacement: 1800# Sail area: 247sf Main : 148sf Jib : 74sf Mizzen: 25sf

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Considered a Norwegian Koster boat, Sjogin (pronounced So gin, accent on So) origins are unclear, and no building plans were available. Owner Russ Manheimer and friends took the lines off Sjogin as several people were very interested in building this pretty boat. Word spread because of Russ's enticing blog "Hove-to Off Swan's Point" as well as frequent contributions on our WoodenBoat Forum. They approached Paul Gartside, and the results are a beautifully drawn set (12 sheets!) of plans. A lot of folks seem to feel this boat is "about right" and we expect to see more come to life. For more of her story, see WoodenBoat 247. That's Sjogin and Russ on the cover.

LOA: 21' 5" LWL: 19' 1" Beam: 8' 6" Draft: 2' 11" Ballast: 1150 lbs Displacement: 4170 lbs Sail area: 214-245, depending on rig... several rig options Building Skill: Advanced Construction: glued lap ply, tradtional lapstrake (clinker), or cold-molded

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Boat Profile

A Gaff Sloop

Paul Gartside's design No. 218

From Issue   February 2020

P aul Gartside’s 16′ Gaff Sloop, his Design No. 218, has its roots in SJOGIN , a 22′ traditional double-ended Scandinavian workboat built in the late ’50s. Paul designed a modified version of it, his Koster Boat, Design No. 176, and later developed three smaller versions. The last of them, Design No. 218, is the Gaff Sloop, a 16-footer with a transom stern. When Jonathan Sheldon of Hereford, England, enrolled at the Boat Building Academy (BBA) in Lyme Regis, he decided that this design fulfilled all his criteria for a new boat. He wanted a trailerable, stable, traditional-looking boat that he could sail, row, or motor either singlehanded or with a sizable crew.

The removable floorboards are finished bright and bordered by fixed perimeter boards, here painted white.

Jonathan was keen for the boat to have a cutter rig with a bowsprit, a feature that was present in the Koster. Paul was more than happy to draw a new rig with a bowsprit but thought the boat was too small for two headsails, so the gaff-sloop rig was retained. The mainsail and topsail were adjusted slightly to keep the center of effort in the same place.

The lines were lofted, according to BBA tutor Matthew Law, “using Gartside’s own lofting process, which is to loft the body plan first using all the offsets, including the offsets for the diagonals. Some people only use the diagonals at the end of the lofting process.” The long, fore-and-aft lines were then drawn as a result of which only minimal adjustments were necessary on the body plan. “Gartside’s drawings tend to be very good,” said Matthew.

For two of his iterations of the design, Paul specifies a variety of construction methods such as glued lapstrake, strip-planking, cold-molding, and traditional lapstrake, but he has drawn No. 218 for traditional lapstrake only, built right-side-up so the sweep of the planks can be tuned by eye as work on the hull progresses.

The boat is easily rowed, though the builder plans to lower the oarlocks and their pads to bring the oar handles down to a more comfortable height.

The centerline structure consists of a 2″ x 5″ keel of three laminated pieces, and a 9/16″-thick hog (both in sapele and with a slot for the centerboard), and an oak stem laminated of 13 layers of about 3/8″ thickness each]. The stem was made in two parts: an outer stem and an apron to provide a rabbet for the planking, with enough width in the apron to provide a substantial landing for the plank ends. The laminations were steamed to get them into their basic shape and then left to dry for about three days before clamping on a form and gluing up with epoxy. These centerline components were set up on a base framework along with the 1-1/8″-thick oak transom and 2-1/2″-thick oak stern knee, all of which, along with six temporary molds, were stabilized with struts up to an overhead workshop beam.

The 12 strakes of 3/8″ thick khaya planks were then fitted starting from the centerline, with the forward ends of the lower five planks steamed to cope with the twist as they approach the stem. The wood for the top strakes, which would be finished bright, was carefully selected from two particularly straight-grained boards and set aside before planking began.

For ease of access, the centerboard case was fitted when the planking was partially complete and required making cutouts in two of the temporary molds. Each side of the case was made up of three pieces of 7/8″ sapele, biscuit-joined, and had a 3″-deep sapele log fixed to the bottom, to be bolted through the keel. This, Jonathan thought, was “more efficient and cheaper” than rabbeting the sides into the tops of the logs in the way that Paul had drawn.

With the planking complete, the molds were removed and replaced with three sheer-to-sheer cross spalls to maintain the shape of the hull during the framing. The 1″ x 5/8″ steam-bent oak frames were fitted on 6″ centers. The frames are installed in halves in the bow and stern where the garboards are nearly vertical and amidships where the centerboard is located; the rest are bent in place in one piece.

The transom doesn’t have a notch for an outboard, but if the motor’s shaft is long enough, one isn’t required. The transom is designed to be strong enough to support outboard power.

Next came the ten 1″ oak floors, each made with a limber adjacent to every plank lap, and the 7/8″ x 2-1/2″ oak inwales. The plans called for a cap over the top of the inwale and sheerstrake, but Jonathan left this out because he wanted an open gunwale with the frame tops visible and open spaces between them. To compensate for the loss of structure, he added sapele outwales shaped from 1-1/8″-square stock. The sheer is also strengthened by the rubrail that Paul drew to protect the lower edge of the sheer strake.

The 1″ thwarts (pine in the plans, oak in Jonathan’s boat) rest on risers (the 2-1/4″ x 5/8″ pine in the plans proved difficult to edge-set at the stern so Jonathan used 1-1/2″ x 3/4″ oak) and have lodging knees connecting them to stiffen the hull. Each end of the thwarts also has a pair of vertical knees that extend 15″ inboard and taper down to a very low profile. Paul calls for 7/8″ grown knees, which can be hard to come by, so Jonathan made his with 1″ iroko, in two pieces, half-lapped to avoid weak cross-grain at the ends. Jonathan had been collecting timber from various flea markets, auctions, and odd sales, and he often used that stock in lieu of the lumber specified in the plans.

The floorboards rest on the floor timbers as loose panels for easy removal. They run fore and aft and are bounded by  a fixed, curved perimeter floorboard port and starboard.

I had the opportunity to take a short sail on Jonathan’s Gaff Sloop on the Academy’s Launch Day in gentle Force 1 to 2 winds, which would have been good, forgiving conditions for a first sail, were it not for a disproportionally lollopy chop. There were four of us on board, but at no time did the boat feel crowded, even when we were tacking and each of us had to shift to a new place to sit. Jonathan has sailed with five aboard, including himself, and observed there was still plenty of space. The boat felt comfortingly stable at all times, not surprising given the generous 6′ 9″ beam, the stability provided by the hull form, and the 35-lb lead insert in the centerboard.

Adding the bowsprit to the original sail plan increased the length of the jib’s foot by 12″ and its area by a bit over 6-1/2 sq ft.

In the stronger winds of the day, the sloop was beautifully balanced and I was able to let go of the tiller for a couple of minutes at a time while the boat steered a straight course. When the breeze went lighter, however, I found that there was a lee helm and the boat wouldn’t tack. I put that down to the chop, which I felt was giving us a less-than-fair test, but afterward I contacted Paul about it. He was a little concerned because, he said, “I have the sail’s center of effort right over the spur (the intersection of board’s leading edge and the hull) and normally that guarantees a neutral helm until the boat heels, even on a beamy boat.” He suggested that perhaps crew distribution had put the boat out of trim or the centerboard wasn’t fully lowered. He was right; Jonathan acknowledged the centerboard control lines were not yet set up quite right, and the board was about 90-percent deployed.

At the time of launching it was only possible to row from the central thwart—Jonathan was experimenting with the location of the forward thwart and hadn’t yet installed locks for the forward rowing station. When rowing from the ’midship station, with two others aboard and pulling on the new 10′ oars, it took a bit of effort to get the boat going—it is, after all, big and beamy for a 16-footer–but it then carried its way well. Jonathan and I both agreed that we had to raise the oar handles a little too high when taking a stroke, but this should be easily resolved by lowering the height of the rowlock pads and by replacing the rather long-stemmed rowlocks Jonathan had available with lower ones. Longer oars would help too; a common oar-length formula indicates 12-1/2′ oars would be suitable for rowing, but anything over 10″ would be awkward to stow aboard.

The 28.5 sq ft topsail catches the faster-moving air aloft when the breeze is light. Here it’s set a bit high; it should overlap much of the main’s gaff to close the gap between the two sails.

Nigel Sharp is a lifelong sailor and a freelance marine writer and photographer. He spent 35 years in managerial roles in the boat building and repair industry, and has logged thousands of miles in boats big and small, from dinghies to schooners.

Gaff Sloop Particulars

Draft, board down/ 3′ 8″

Depth amidships/ 2′ 1.5″

Sail area/136 sq ft

Original sail plan

Sail plan with bowsprit

Plans for the Gaff Sloop, No. 218 , are available from Gartside Boats for $190, digital, and $200, print.

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It very much reminds me of my John Leather Oyster. Similar size and sailing characteristics. It has taken care of me in good weather and bad, along with being a highly popular boat to sail with our friends.

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Hove to off Swan Point

and sailing as slow as I can….

Category: Sjogin

Hello to the new sjogin friends.

A recent post on Instagram apparently caught the eye of the algorithm or someone with influence and appealed to more folks than ever before. It’s the classic last look at SJOGIN with the Bay in the background. Here’s the photo and a link to the suddenly popular Instagram post.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYMI2WJL_aT/?utm_medium=copy_link Once again I need to apologize for the infrequent posting here. The site does have its virtues though regarding the SJOGIN and Beaton’s Pages. Click on the respective Pages to see SJOGIN’s story and learn about Beaton’s. The comments on the Beaton page are worth a read. Like SJOGIN, Beaton’s is alive with fond memories. Admittedly both pages could use an update, especially regarding the Sandy story. I’ve had this Blog, Hove to off Swan Point, for now over sixteen years. It’s always a treat to see someone new beguiled by SJOGIN so welcome to the new readers. I’m also on Twitter under my actual name. Infrequent posting there and mostly different SJOGIN content but other items of interest. Stay safe all. Fair winds and weather shores in 2022.

Russ Manheimer

ps. The name is pronounced So’ gin. The J is silent.

Last sail of July

After the quick sail shown in the YouTube video below, I sailed up to the dock in front of the south shed and tied off. I then proceeded to strip the halyards and sails and got her ready for her haul out. She’ll be in the big shed from tomorrow I suspect until sometime in mid to late August but then this is Beatons and Beatons time is different from everywhere else in the world. For which I am eternaly grateful. Stay safe all, it’s getting nasty out there again.

The video has us very slowly leaving Beaton’s to get past Swan Point. Then a Starboard tack heave to for lunch.

https://youtu.be/1wDms5DSPfE

Boat work tomorrow. Let’s see how much of my scrapping and sanding muscle memory remains.

Still here redux….

This video was prepared for the Virtual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival last year. It’s a YouTube video and if you search YouTube you’ll find quite a few more SJOGIN videos. Enjoy and more news and pics here to come. (I promise!)

Slow sailing again and few boats looking Beaton Fresh

After a few week haul out for bottom and topsides paint, Sjogin is back where she belongs.  A week or so of swelling has her as tight as she was before the haulout.   Which means that she always takes a bit of water as she’s just over sixty years old.

Here are two videos of a slow sail last week and a series of pics of recent launchings at Beaton’s, all looking ‘Beaton Fresh’.

So very grateful that I can do this and share with folks who enjoy seeing our very tiny adventures.  Hope this provides a brief distraction from these difficult times. …

Even with a clean bottom and no other boat wakes there are times when even this slow sailor finds it necessary to break out the sculling oar.  The no see ums found me at this point so it was time to resort to my ash breeze to travel the last hundred yards or so. …

Foamranger is an elderly Chris Craft skiff that’s been well cared for at Beatons for a long time. …

Myth looking ready for another season of sailing like it was done in the 1890’s  She’s a replica of the original late 19th century catboat. …

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One of the Beaton yard workers Patrick’s dinghy, ready for another season of messing about.  This very able boat was built in fibreglass by Cape Cod Shipbuilding Company.  Details here . …

This is  Quest , a Watch Hill 15 built by Herreshoff in the 1920’s I believe. …

Legend is one of Charles Hankins skiffs.  A very simple and handy boat for day cruising and such. …

I expect we’ll have some videos soon of  Sjogin  sailing a bit faster then as shown above.  Stay safe all and hold fast.

Getting closer…

After a stretch of damp and cool weather, good painting conditions have finally arrived.  I have every expectation that  Sjogin  will be back where she belongs by this weekend and sailing next week.  It’s been four weeks since the last fire and a sizzle down below and even longer since the last sail.

Here’s Jeff wiping down the topsides prior to painting.

Topsides are sanded and ready for a coat of Kirby’s finest semi-gloss white paint.  The bottom’s been painted within a few inches of the waterline.  The final cutting in will be done after the topsides are done.

This session on the hard should keep her looking good till next spring.

No sailing this weekend!

And not for my usual desire for Goldilocks conditions of a light to very moderate breeze out of the SE to SW, cool enough for a fire and a bit of sun.

A few weeks ago, I asked Beaton’s to pull  Sjogin when convenient to sand and paint the bottom and topsides.  With a Goldilocks forecast and plenty of water in the Bay I headed down Saturday to go for the first sail of our current crisis and found  Sjogin as you can see below.  If we can finally have a few warm and sunny days she should be back in commission next week.

I was pleased to find her topsides paint in fine condition absent the usual rust stains on the stem from her iron sickness.  Even better was the lack of water seeping out of the garboard seams.  Just a tiny dribble which is very manageable.

Looks like she could pass a ten foot test of her topsides and bottom paint.

If you look close you can see the rust stains.  It’s a chronic condition that can only be solved by replacing the stem.  I’ll leave that for  Sjogin’s next steward.

Usually there’s a broad area of weeping here.  Our current damp and cool weather will help keep the seam tight till she’s back in the water.

A bit more weeping here but far less than normal.  Both garboard seams were tended to last year by Paul Smith and that seems to have done the trick.

Next post should show some progress with the painting and getting ready for better weather.

Thanks again for following along.  It’s been almost fifteen years I’ve been sharing Sjogin’s story and it’s my hope that posting here and on her social media accounts will bring a smile and some comfort in these trying times.

Julia and I are so very grateful for our good fortune and good health to date.  We  wish you and yours all the best as we work through this pandemic.

Just linked back up with WordPress after a password kerfuffle.  As some of you may know that there is a public Sjogin Page on Facebook and an Instagram Page under the same name.  Both have regular (far more irregular here) updates, news from Beaton’s, our gardens and such.  Keeping up this blog has been indifferent over the last few years due to the ease of posting on social media.

Still, I’ve been writing here for almost fifteen years.  It’s been a fine journey, meeting lots of interesting folks both analog and digital.  Ten years ago Sjogin’s lines were recorded and Paul Gartside drew several versions in different lengths.  To date I’ve heard of or seen a half dozen new Sjogins built or under construction around the world.  Five years ago  Sjogin  and my search for her origins were featured in WoodenBoat Magazine.  A high honor indeed.

I’ve signed up a friend to help manage this page and the prospect of posting here regularly and having it show up in my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter feeds.  We’ll see; you’ve heard such good intentions here before.

Here’s a photo from 2017 showing her still varnished rub rails and Malachy Green house trim.  Both are now Bronze Green; Kirby Paints of course.

Hold Fast all as we struggle through these grim times.

All the way to Reedy Creek

Managed to get out for a sail last week and made it Reedy Creek, all of a mile or so from Beaton’s. Once reached I hove too for an hour for lunch and more Tilman adventures near K2.

Here are a few pics and videos from the sail:

As far as I can tell, this is the only Osprey next on their preferred foundation. It’s just north of Reedy Creek.

Sailing past the Oyster Farm. The floats are attached to cages which are full of happy Oysters.

Here the cars are upside down and empty of Oysters. The farmers do this to dry and remove the usual growth of grasses and such.

The Sloop Point platform has a pair of young Osprey almost ready to fly.

Beating out of Jones Tide Pond with Juniors to weather.

The nest across Stockton Lake from us has three little ones with the largest itching to fly.

Beaton bits and a sailing video.

Here are a few pics of goings on at Beaton’s over the past few months.  Spring has long sprung with the usual bustle at Beaton’s.  The docks are getting full and the average water levels have reached ideal Sjogin conditions.

Serena , the Joel White Flatfish and the A-Cat Lightning looking Beaton Fresh.   Serena was built at Beaton’s a while ago.  She’s a sistership to  Charlotte , built by them in 2003.  The building mold is in the yard and ready to go.  They’re great daysailers with shallow draft.  Give Tom a call.

The rebuilt foot of a very large catboat mast.  This one will live again thanks to the attention of Paul Smith.

At the other end of the mast work at Beaton’s scale is Speedwell’s new mast foot.  I had Paul remake the foot to match the existing Duckboat mast step.  With the limited bury it will make the rig more secure.   It had a round foot that would allow the mast to rotate as spritsail did.  This may give me a chance to setting up the sail as a lug.  We’ll see.

New decking in front of the South Shed whose East wall still bears the sctatches and dings from Sandy.  Our community will have them for a long time.

Once again WoodenBoat has seen fit to have me write an article for them.  It’s in the May/June 2018 issue of WoodenBoat Magazine and tells the story of a boat that once again graces the waters of upper Barnegat Bay.  There’s also a sidebar celebrating 54 years of Paul’s work at Beaton’s.

And here’s a video taken a few weeks ago just as the marsh was starting to green up.  If you keep you focus narrow it’s easy to imagine what it was like a few hundred years ago.  Hove to of course.

Happy New Year!

A chilly start to the year. After a fairly mild December, Winter has set up camp for the duration. Here are three pics from my first visit of the year. Delighted to find little to pump. Good so far with a nasty Northeaster on the way.

Best wishes for a Happier New Year to all. Thanks for following along for another year.

Looks like it may be a while for that first sail of 2018.