Traditional Boat Studies

To begin the discussion about why boats are shaped and built differently across Ireland a series of design studies are proposed, the suggested boats:

Sean - Irish Hooker

Maeve - Traditional skin boats (excluding curachs and Naomhogs)

Margarita - The Donegal Curach

Robyn - The Kerry Naomhog

Ralph - The Achill yawl

Ed - The Waterford Prong

Aoibhin - Racing gigs of West Cork

Hugo - Dublin Bay racing skiff

Michelle - Traditional boats of the river Shannon (excluding Shannon One Design)

Gillian - Dublin Bay Mermaid

Patrick - Bantry Longboat

Colin - Fairy One Design

Frank Fullard

The vital information you will need to find:

A photograph of boat

A drawing of boat

The boat’s dimensions

The materials and methods of construction

The origin and history of the boat.

The use of the boat, purpose, amount of people

The environment of the boat, weather, shore, waves, fresh water, tidal, mud etc

Method of powering the boat

Good points vs bad points (i.e. reasons it prospered or reasons it failed)

Based on this comparitive analysis of these boats we will be beginning the process of creating a brief for a new boat for Lough Derg.