Halcyon owner designed and built 20 sloop with center board and inboard electric drive. The boat plan was developed from a model carve in 1975. 2011 learned how to loft and develope a plan. This was to be a day sailer which for me determined the planking method of strip planking, gluing and screwing the planks together, I would not have problems of a leaky boat. There are no ribs in the boat, these would have been problematic with the differential swelling and shrinkage of the planking causing splitting. There are 3 main structural elements of the hull: one, the stem and keel of dairy, two, the deck with the cockpit coaming, three, the bench’s which run for and aft from stem to stern, they sit on shaped wooden brackets fastened to the hull and sit on the bilge stringer. For this reason, the mast is self-supporting laminated 8-sided from 1” dairy and shaped round with a taper above the gooseneck. I have a gin pole which sits on the centerboard case with guys to the cleats in the back and to the trailer in front. The mast has to be raised and the mast lowered through the stitching of the sail. The only guy is the fore stay.
