De Pan

This auxiliary yawl was constructed by Palmer Johnson of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. She was launched in 1950. It is rumored that the boat was built on a time and materials basis due to the owners' insistence on meticulous attention to detail. As such she took over a year to construct.

She is built with oak frames, keel and deadwood with Honduras mahogany planking and bronze fasteners. Somewhat unusually hull strapping is of stainless steel.

Here are the plans.

This design has Rod Stephens' imprint all over it. Rod was a huge fan of the big, beamy, center cockpit ketch as a cruising boat. This looks like a natural development of two previous designs: Yankee, design #1278 and Torea, design #1927.

The T.O.C.K. (Tartan Offshore Cruising Ketch) was put into production in 1976 for short run that lasted two years. 30 boats were produced.

The boats must be fun to sail, especially with the cockpit so far forward.


Here are the plans.

Just when we think we have identified all S&S built by Carlini of Italy, we find these two addition builds. The two boats were built in 1960. They are simple boats designed to rate under the R.O.R.C. Rule. Construction is of conventional scantlings: white oak backbone, steam bent white oak frames and single planked in mahogany with Everdur fasteners.

Please find below an updated list of Carlini built boats. We have added these two projects and we now find a total of 20 boats built by Carlini between 1956-1984. Many have been posted on this blog site. You can simply do a search in the field provided at top by either design number or boat name. Looking at the list I would hazard a guess that the boat built for Dr. Combe may have been named Kiwi, based on his second Carlini boat built two years later.

Here's the list. Please double click for zoom.


Here are the plans.