The place to experience leeboard boats is holland. the variation in styles is enormous between hoogars, tjalks, bollers , klippers etc, but they all have the same basic characteristics of shallow draught, mainly flat bottoms and leeboards.. Boat plans leeboards storer wood and plywood boat plans, wooden and plywood boat plans for amateur boatbuilders – excellent performance, simple construction, detailed step by step instructions for boats, canoes and.. Dutch sailboat with leeboards. discussion in 'boat design' started by drc, nov 13, 2005. joined: nov 2005 posts: 2 does anyone know where i could get my hands on some good line drawings with offsets or plans for some of the varous dutch boats that used leeboards. or even better some info on their design thanks drc drc, nov 13, 2005 #1.
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