Gypsy

 Home-built from plans

Brand:

Woods

Designed by:

Lilian Woods, Woods Designs

Description:

The Gypsy is a comfortable and safe budget offshore cruiser with standing cabin headroom and lively performance. She can have flat-bottomed dory-shaped hulls constructed in sheet plywood or fibreglass panels, or have round bilge hulls strip planked in cedar. The first option is cheaper and faster to build. For her length she has a surprising amount of accommodation. Each hull is in three compartments with standing headroom. There are single bunks or optional storage areas forward and aft, while the centre sections house the heads in one hull and a nav station in the other. An offset nacelle projets down from the level of the bridgedeck to provide standing headroom in the saloon, which houses a galley and dinette.

As in some other Woods designs, the hull cabins are not connected to the main cabin, so all three separate accomodation areas have their own companionway. This system gives easy and protected access forward as well as making the separate parts more private. Furthermore this system is easier to build.

The high freeboard of the hulls give the boat a chunky shape, but she is much more agile and speedy than she appears.

The Gypsy is a boat with good cruising potential that can be built on a very tight budget in a reasonable amount of time, and consequently it is a very popular home builders' choice.

Type:

Cruiser

Multihull type:

Catamaran

Construction:

• Sheet ply or fibreglass flat panels for dory-shaped hulls
• Strip-planked cedar and ply decks for the version with round bilges

Sails and rigging images:

Keels, boards and rudders:

Fixed low aspect ratio keels; daggerboards optional in round bilge version

Accommodation:

Port hull: single berth or storage aft; heads compartment with shower and basin midships; single berth forward; standing headroom
Starboard hull: single berth aft; nav station midships; single berth forward; standing headroom
Bridgedeck saloon: galley; table with settees - converts to double berth; galley; standing headroom

Accommodation images:

LOA (length overall):

8.5 m (27 ft 11 in)

LWL (length at waterline):

8.1 m (26 ft 7 in)

Beam:

5.4 m (17 ft 9 in)

Draft minimum:

0.7 m (2 ft 4 in)

Windward sail area:

38.0 m² (409 ft²)

Displacement, lightship (empty):

1800 kg (1.77 tons)

Displacement, maximum:

2400 kg (2.36 tons)

Number of berths:

6

Cabin headroom:

1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

Outboard engines:

1

Fuel type:

Petrol

Trailerable:

No

First introduced:

1995

In production:

Plans available

More images:

Degree of customisation:

Several options

Cost to home-build:

£12000 Sterling (approx: €16213 / $23806 US / $27066 AUS)*

Used boats for sale:

40 boats of this brand currently available!

Associations & newsgroups:

• Woods boats' forum

* Exchange rates last updated: Sunday 27th January 2008 19:27 GMT