| Pixie A 14' V-Bottom Rowboat By William Atkin | ||||
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| An Excellent Boat, easily Constructed and Suitable for an All Purpose Tender, to be Used With or Without an Outboard Engine | |||||
| Pixie, while designed for rowing, is a craft that can be used to good advantage with an outboard motor. She will make an excellent tender for any motor boat; but was designed for use with the house boat Slopoke. The little boat has good carrying capacity and will easily take a load of four or five persons in safety and comfort. There is ample freeboard to assure dryness, and enough sheer to make a smart looking craft. The V bottom type is in many ways superior to the round bilge model, and this is especially true from the standpoint of stability. | |||||
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| Pixie is 14 feet in over all length, her water line length is 13 feet, breadth 4 feet and draft 7 1/2 inches. She will weigh approximately 156 pounds with oars and fittings which is reasonably light for a boat of this size. The freeboard at the bow is 1 foot 8 inches, and at the stern 1 foot 2 inches. | |||||
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| As a rowing boat she will pull easily; and under the urge of one of the big twin outboard motors which are so popular now will have a speed of nearly 7 miles an hour. The construction is purposely light because any small boat that is to be used for a tender should be light; one has no idea of the advantage of a very light boat until it is necessary to draw it up or down the beach for launching, and by the same token, the disadvantages of a heavy boat are glaring. | |||||
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| Large scale plans for Pixie are $100 Pixie may also be built from The Small Boat Book Please Use Our PRINT-OUT ORDER FORM To Request Boat Plans
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