This design was originally created in the early ’90s. At the time I was working in a shop in Toronto – The Tender Craft Boat Shop.  We produced an 8′ GRP tender – “The Proper Yacht Tender”,  well finished with cherry thwarts, ash wales,  bronze fittings, and a canvas neoprene gunnel guard trim. 

The 9.5′ tender was in response to an almost whimsical request at the International Boat Show  – a few boats came about that way.  Armed with a new drafting table, home made splines & weights,  and a copy of Chapelle’s “Yacht Designing and Planning”,  I drew the 9.5.

It was originally built using a very popular wood strip epoxy method with good results. I believe the design to be handsome – and the design provided sufficient volume to be a practical tender for rowing, and good fun (if not blisteringly fast) sailing. I built 3 or 4 of them myself, and the plans were marketed as a kit as well. I designed a similar boat in 8′ – more volume than the original Proper Yacht Tender – It was again marketed as a kit.

Not too long ago, I came upon the original drawings on velum  – and thought it might be fun to “digitize” them; taking advantage of good CAD software such as Rhino, and Orca3D. The renderings below gives you some idea of the work in progress.