Francolin
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Design No. 0052
Built for: Colonel W. J. Munn
Builder: H. J. Kimber, Highbridge, England
Date designed: 1937
Class – Hull Number Vertue Class No. 6
Principal Design Data
L.O.A: 25’ 3½” (7.70 m)
Datum: 21’ 6” (6.55 m)
Beam Max: 7’ 2″ (2.18 m)
Draft: 4′ 6” (1.37 m)
Displacement tons: 4.2
T.M.: 4.97 tons
Ballast ratio: 47.1%
Sail Area: 384 sq. ft
Rig: Bermudan Sloop
Another of the early low coach roof versions with built on the same hull lines as Andrillot, Sally II and Monie. Francolin is currently one of the dozen or so Vertues based on England’s south-west coast.
You would be wrong if you thought that she was named after the owner’s twin sons Frank and Colin, the Francolin is a partridge-like terrestrial bird found naturally in Africa and Asia.
Francolin was the only Vertue to be built at Kimber’s Boat Yard on the river Brue near Burham on Sea where Harold (Kim) Kimber had established his boat repair yard in the same year as the formation of Giles’ own yacht design practice.
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Individual Drawing Copies
Please download and print the drawings list for Francolin, Individual plan copies cost $85.00 which includes standard airmail. Please contact us using the link for information on how to order.
Download Drawing ListStudy Notes
34 page A4 format colour booklet containing many small scale drawings and photographs as well as technical data and an abridged specifications of the Vertue class.
Model Plans
Full set of Stock Building Plans
A replica of Francolin can be constructed from the original 1950 drawings, or if preferred using strip plank construction for which full construction, rigging and outfit drawings will be provided.
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