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YOU don’t really own an old wooden sailing boat; you have an emotional relationship with her.
For four years I half lived aboard a sweet Harrison Butler 6-ton cutter. We grew close in shared adversity and achievement, but in the end we parted, and I went looking for a boat that demanded less logistic and financial commitment.
In a barn on a farm in Lancashire was my old wooden Tideway dinghy, neglected for years. I brushed the straw off her and we took ourselves off to France together. You’d think that camping aboard a 12-footer would be a colossal comedown, but actually the intense intimacy and endearing simplicity of camper-cruising was striking. I’d also forgotten what a good way to make new friends it is. People warm to the lack of pretension of an old dinghy.
So I returned to England hugely smitten once again by dinghy cruising, but also convinced that it was high time I bought a larger dinghy. There are limits to the abilities of any 12ft (3.7m) dinghy, and I felt I needed the greater seaworthiness that comes with increased size. There is surprisingly little choice of modern dinghies suitable for coastal cruising though – particularly the way I do it, which involves regular leaps into the boat from tall quaysides, or coiling down 30m (100ft) lengths of seaweed-encrusted rope into the bottom boards. I need a boat I can jump onto the gunwales of, without fear that she’ll dump me in. Something like a Tideway in fact, but bigger.
There was at least one boat around that met my specification: the Ilur class dinghy. Virtually unknown this side of the Channel, it has a loyal following in France. Designed by the prolific naval architect François Vivier, for clinker ply or strip building, Ilurs have inherited the almost forgotten traditional virtues, developed through centuries of experience. Whereas modern dinghies are designed for windward speed at all costs, the longshore sailors who worked from open sailing boats in all weathers were more interested in a sturdy boat that would lie calmly in a heavy sea while the sail was lowered to reef, and did not need constant attention while nets were set or lines hauled.
The Ilur’s genes come straight from the open workboat tradition of the Breton coast. The plumb stem and good wide transom, the firm bilges curving down to a long central keel for directional stability, decent freeboard and buoyant sections speak of a boat that’ll look after you when things get tough.
The Ilur is just one of many such boats by François Vivier that have become a frequent sight around the French coast: Abers, Avens, Beg Meils and many others. These straightforward dinghies are part of a widespread revival of interest in the traditional craft of the French littoral: a reaction against the increasingly high-tech world of French yachting and a rediscovery of the skills of navigation in simple open boats, propelled by sail and oar: a movement they call ‘voile aviron’.
Voile Aviron is also the name of a lively French e-mail discussion group, and I posted a message on it asking for help in buying an Ilur. This resulted in a firm lead on an available boat, so a few weeks later I arrived in France with a trailer lighting board, an international money order for rather less than the asking price, to leave room for haggling, and a wad of Euros to make up the difference.
In the UK you can still buy a small boat with just a handshake. Not in France, where official forms must be signed. But at length I returned to England, proud owner of a black Breton lugger called Avel Dro . Now all I had to do was learn how to sail her.
Vivier designed the Ilur with a choice of rigs, the traditional French misainier rig – a single lugsail set on an unstayed mast right forward – and a more conventional sloop with standing lug and jib. The misainier is much the more romantic and popular, and Avel Dro is a pretty typical example. Her rigging, taken directly from workboat practice, is incredibly simple and admirably robust. The well-raked wooden mast is held up by a rope looped backwards and forwards around two substantial wooden belaying pins in the bows.
The single halyard runs through a dumb sheave at the masthead to a galvanised-steel traveller, well leathered, which is hooked onto a rope strop on the yard. Like all lugsails, Avel Dro ’s likes lots of luff tension, and this is achieved by a beefy four-part tack purchase, which I have led aft to within reach of the helm, as I often sail single-handed. The sail is a generous 12.2sqm (131sqft), and has three rows of reef points. Reefing means lowering the sail and moving the attachments for the sheet and tack up the sail to a new cringle, before tying the reef points and then rehoisting the sail.
Rather than metal fittings, which are prone to beat you about the skull, both sheet and tack tackle are attached to the sail by head-friendly rope strops, which no amount of sail flogging seems to shake loose.
Perhaps the most striking example of Avel Dro ’s simplicity of rig, and the hardest for a mere Englishman to get used to, is the lack of a horse for the mainsheet. Each time the sail is tacked or gybed, the sheet block has to be unhooked from one quarter and hooked onto the other. If you are tardy in moving the block across, the sail fills with wind and rips the block out of your hand. It was months before I could tack confidently, and a year before I’d learnt how to gybe her. I might have given up long before and fitted a horse, but I was reluctant to muck around with her splendidly straightforward rudder – just a single sheet of plywood that simply rises up its long pintles in shallow water, avoiding all the complexity of a pivoting rudder blade. But this also lifts the tiller, which would foul a sheet horse, if fitted. So I persevered with the hooking and unhooking.
I have owned Avel Dro for a couple of years now, and slowly grown accustomed to her strange foreign ways. The idiosyncrasies of her rig have now become familiar to me, and I find it deeply satisfying to get the best out of her. You don’t just hoist a Breton lugsail up the mast and leave it there. To get the best out of the rig, the luff tension needs constant adjustment. But, properly set up, Avel Dro is remarkably fast and surprisingly close-winded. In anything of a wind she will make 4.5 knots on any point of sailing; on a broad reach in a blow, she’ll do 5.5 knots with insouciance. She needs physical strength to sail her, as her gear is heavy and the simple running rigging gives little mechanical advantage.
I enjoy this, and like the feel that she is a real workboat, not a natty dinghy, but I can see that she would not suit everyone. The Ilur is as proud of her full buttocks as is her compatriot, the Renault Mégane – and that broad raked transom has many advantages. In a following sea, it creates a huge amount of lift and stops you being pooped; it maximises interior space in a short hull; it provides a good place to enter the boat from a small dinghy. It is easy to clamp on an outboard, if you use such things; and if you don’t, sculling her over the stern is a doddle. Indeed, I tend to sail with an oar almost permanently sitting in the sculling notch and protruding over the transom, so that a quick stroke can be made “à la godille” in a calm patch, or if I’m unexpectedly caught in irons.
For a hull just over 14ft 6in (4.4m) long, the Ilur has an astonishing amount of space, due not only to her full sections and generous freeboard, but also to the lack of fore and side decks, which means that the whole of the boat is available to work in. Although not designed for camping on board, she is ideal for it. Her bottom boards are flat, with a generous gap beneath for bilge water, and there is plenty of space under the thwarts for sleeping bodies to turn over in the middle of the night; something that cannot be said of some more celebrated dinghies commonly used for cruising.
My boat tent is still just a temporary tarpaulin edifice, but it has full sitting headroom throughout its length and almost standing headroom at the stern, and includes separate sections for sleeping, cooking and lounging for postprandial drinks, as well as a dedicated area in the bows for slimy anchors, muddy boots and drippy oilskins. Even my old yacht crews are pretty satisfied with the facilities.
A year after I bought Avel Dro , I took her off to the big Fête Maritime at Brest and Douarnenez in 2004 and then set out alone to the long-desired destination of the Ile de Sein, a romantic island off the western tip of mainland Europe, surrounded by rocks and tidal races that had thwarted me before, both in a 12ft (3.6m) dinghy and a 40ft (12.2m) yacht.
Despite a dense fog in the Raz de Sein, Avel Dro and I finally slipped silently into the little harbour of Sein, triumphant. I had barely erected the cover when a man in an orange fisherman’s smock popped his head over the quayside and invited me home to dinner that night with his wife. He was called Abel, and amazingly owned the very first Ilur ever made; he had made it for François Vivier many years before.
Abel’s Ilur made mine look hi-tech, with her faded cotton sail and even simpler gear. After a long French lunch the next morning, we both sailed out of the harbour together – he to fish among the shoals that surround his rockbound island, I on the long coastal passage to Camaret. We parted at the wailing whistle buoy Cornoc-an-ar-Braden, and soon the sail of Abel’s Ilur dwindled to a speck in the rolling swell, small and fragile in the immense Atlantic. Then I looked down at my own Ilur, so purposeful and well honed for these waters, and knew we had chosen well: these boats would not let us down in the Celtic seas of their birth.
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Ilur was designed for family day sailing. She can be used for fishing and even coastal cruising and has generous freeboard. This makes a very versatile boat, with good seakeeping ability, but still in the “sail and oar” spirit. Its superior quality makes Ilur our second best selling Vivier design after the Morbic 12.
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OUR REF. † AYB00739 GENERAL Her Builder Ross Cameron exhibited her at last years Southampton Boat Show. She was bought on impulse because of her beauty and on reflection her owner wants a cabin boat hence the reason for sale. She is unused and stored in a garage with new cover, engine and trailer. She offers a saving of over £6,000.00. The hull is constructed from Alaskan Yellow Cedar strip planking on a backbone and frames laminated from kiln-dried European Oak.
OUR REF. † AYB00739 GENERAL Her Builder Ross Cameron exhibited her at last years Southampton Boat Show. She was bought on impulse because of her beauty and on reflection her owner wants a cabin boat hence the reason for sale. She is unused and stored in a garage with new cover, engine and trailer. She offers a saving of over £6,000.00. The hull is constructed from Alaskan Yellow Cedar strip planking on a backbone and frames laminated from kiln-dried European Oak. The sheer strake, transom, seats, rudder and centreboard are all mahogany, their colour contrasting beautifully with the cedar planking. The hull has been constructed and sheathed using West System® epoxy resin throughout. The topsides are 2-pack varnished. Buoyancy tanks are built in under the seats and in the bow to meet CE requirements. Floorboards are fitted, with space underneath for stowing oars. She is built to a very high standard. BUILDER Ross Cameron 2015. SPECIFICATION LOA 14’6” Beam 5'7" Draft 10" – 2’10”’ Galvanised Steel Trailing Weight 350kg RIGGING Standing lug sloop with bowsprit and Jib. Mast and spars are Douglas Fir. SAILS Main Tan made by R&J Sails with 3 slab reefs. Jib Tan made by R&J Sails. ENGINE Not included. EQUIPMENT Bilge pump, Oars and rowlocks plus sculling oar, Acrylic overall cover. TRAILER Extreme Easy-launch road trailer. LYING Our Offices at Rougham by Appointment.
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| Hull length / waterline | 4.44/ 4.10 m | Sail area | 12.2 m² |
| Breadth / waterline | 1.70 / 1.46 m | Outboard motor | 4 hp |
| Draught | 0.25 / 0.86 m | Design category / Crew | C3 / D5 |
| Light weight clin / lattes | 300 / 345 kg | Building time with kit | 500 hours |
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Ilur was designed after Aber, in order to get a larger boat, able to family day sailing. She can be used for fishing and even coastal cruising. Three Ilur have been to Ile of Sein, at the extreme West of France, one of the worst place to go with tremendous tides and the worst sea conditions. However, do not consider this as an invitation to go there! The length was increased by 20 cm only, but Ilur is mostly wider and higher, with a generous freeboard. This makes a very different boat, with good seakeeping ability, but still in the “sail and oar” spirit. Its superior quality makes Ilur my best-seller plan (with nearly one thousand copies sold). It has been built in many places, from the very heart of Alps, to Pacific islands! If you have to choose the best boat for your intended use, just notice than Ilur is not as an easygoing rowing boat compared to others of my sail and oar designs. She is mainly intended for sailing, oars being used when the wind is falling or to reach some narrow inlets. However, the clinker version is lighter and rows well. The dagger-board was initially preferred in order to give room for the crew. It is now replaced by a pivoting centreboard and a low centreboard case which is not at all cumbersome. Many other improvements are continuously brought. As an example oars may be stowed under the floorboard, leaving a free cockpit when sailing. Ilur was designed at first with the simple lug sail in the Breton style (said “misainier” rig). A lug sloop rig is now proposed and is a valuable option. A balanced lug rig (lug sail with boom) is an other option, interesting for river or single-handed sailing. More recently, I have added a very attractive lug yawl rig. Construction is either strip planked or plywood clinker. In both cases, laminated or steam bent frames give a very traditional and beautiful looking. However, very detailed plans and instruction booklet allow construction by any home builder. Full-size patterns may be purchased in addition to the building plan to make construction easier.
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An Ilur has been built in Ireland by Tim Cooke . Blog of Esger and Vincent van der Post about the building of a clinker Ilur , with many details. Website of Lukasz Kumanowski who is building an Ilur in Sweden.
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François Vivier designed the 14’6” Ilur for daysailing and camp cruising. He drew the boat originally with a lug rig, and added the mizzen seen here on WAXWING for owner-builder John Hartmann.
W AXWING, John Hartmann’s newly launched Ilur design from the drawing board of Fran-çois Vivier, caught my attention in Maine last summer when I spotted her at anchor off a Muscongus Bay island one August evening. We were both camp-cruising, on our way to the Small Reach Regatta, and the next day found us happily sailing in company as we headed to the Audubon Camp at Hog Island. As is often the case with great boats on a gorgeous day, we took the long way every chance we got. Upon arrival at the camp, I quickly found my way to the float and introduced myself to John and his wife, Gabrielle. An invitation to go for a sail in WAXWING ensued, and the wonders of a really fine design were revealed.
Ilur is one of Vivier’s most successful sail-and-oar designs (see WB No. 212). She is a small boat, just 14′ 6″, but will fool even experienced builders into thinking she is much larger. Perhaps channeling Arthur Ran-some, Vivier drew her beamy, full-bodied, and deep, with a nearly plumb stem, a flat, near-vertical transom, high freeboard, and a flattish sheer. These traits are typically a recipe for a dumpy, inelegant tub, so the fact that Vivier has blended them in a lovely combination is a triumph of his mantra that a sailing boat must be a coherent whole. This was one of his first designs for amateur builders, and she was originally designed for strip construction—the then-current technology. The present day ubiquity of quality plywood and epoxy con-struction techniques have allowed her to be redesigned for glued lapstrake construction. That’s how WAXWING was built.
The beam and freeboard combine to create a capacious hull with ample room for adults. This is achieved by tak-ing advantage of the hull shape, and using deep floors and supports for the relatively high floorboards. When the height of the floorboards is raised in a design it usu-ally contributes to a wider, longer, and more useful liv-ing area. Many designs I’ve considered are constrained by narrow beam, or low freeboard, or have simply dis-counted the possibility that sailors might like more sitting, standing, or sleeping space. The nearly plumb stem and transom maximize Ilur’s waterline length, making her punch well above her class in hull speed.
The interior layout is remarkable for having con-siderable built-in structure and flotation while retain-ing an open feeling and function. Seating is provided by slip thwarts (stowable when desired, if one wishes to lounge about on the floorboards or sleep), and an aft-deck and side-bench arrangement that combine a storage locker with flotation chambers to create a traditional stern sheets configuration. The forward end of the interior is open, with the main mast part-ner built into the short foredeck. The impression of open space is compounded by the relatively low appear-ance of the centerboard trunk, another advantage of the great depth of the floors, so a large portion of the trunk’s height is below the floorboards. This depth is also manifested in the absolutely brilliant storage lock-ers to be found below the floorboards. I know I turned a bit green as John casually lifted a floorboard and the 8′ oars disappeared. A little sleuthing revealed that the bilge pump, boathook, and anchor and rode were also standing by, out of sight and out from underfoot.
WAXWING has a striking rig. While Ilur routinely fea-tures a standing lug or a lug sloop rig, Hartmann asked Vivier for a balance lug yawl version. The designer has provided a really large main, which in combination with convenient and prudent reefing offers versatility not found in many small-boat designs. The small mizzen delights the eye, helps balance the steering, and offers cruisers big-boat capabilities such as easily heaving-to, and a riding sail for quiet anchoring. A further big-boat advantage is the large duck-free zone this rig creates, allowing adult skippers to tack and jibe with dignity.
François Vivier The yawl rig on the previous page is only the most recent of several that Viver has drawn for Ilur. The others include the original standing lug, a balance (boomed; shown here) lug, and two balance lug sloops (one with a bowsprit and jib, and one without).
W AXWING was built using a kit provided by Hewes & Company of Blue Hill, Maine, Vivi-er’s U.S. licensee. The accurately CNC-cut okoume plywood parts included planks, bulkheads, frames, stem, transom, centerboard, and rudder com-ponents, as well as the molds and building frame cut from non-marine ply. Potential builders should note the need to choose and supply natural lumber for the seats, floorboards, spars, and trim. Those builders will also need to obtain their own epoxy, hardware, paints, and sails, and a set of plans from the designer. Note that plans are also available for the scratch builder, and include full-sized Mylar patterns.
While this is a pretty standard glued lapstrake hull, the construction sequence differs a bit in the kit ver-sion. The box-girder strongback and construction molds combine with the permanent bulkheads to allow for much of the interior structure (longitudinal bulk-heads, centerboard trunk, and so forth) to be built-in before planking. This allows a much stiffer and more nearly completed boat once it’s turned off the molds. While the kit builder has a great advantage in precut planks, one should note that you will still have to bevel the laps and cut gains in the ends, and that due to the shape of the hull and the traditional aesthetic there are a lot of planks here. It may take a while!
The remainder of the construction and fitting out is straightforward and of a very reasonable scale. The builder has many opportunities for personal expression through the choice of woods, paint scheme, hardware styles, and so forth. Hartmann enriched his experience immensely by designing and patterning his own mast gate for casting by a local foundry. Also of particular note is the builder’s hollow boomkin design, a delightful bit of functional whimsy. His rigging choices (manila-colored Dyneema line) not only enable her intended usage as a versatile daysailer and camp-cruiser, but also reflect the overall finish and aesthetic. He’s designated WAXWING a “varnish-free zone,” choosing an oil finish to highlight the locust and larch details. He has also detailed her with a subtle but striking paint scheme, including a flash of yellow at the transom that mimics the eponymous bird. Study the accompanying photo-graphs, and note how the contrasting sheer plank and the thin edge of the caprail successfully minimize the appearance of the high freeboard.
John Hartmann made the patterns for this bronze mast gate, and had the fitting cast at a local foundry. The gate allows the main mast to be stepped quickly and easily.
M y overall impression of WAXWING underway is of gracious comfort and competence. The big rig and long waterline give her surprising speed for a 14′ boat, letting her keep company with Sea Pearls and Caledonias. The mainsail is simple to hoist, and once it’s up, its easily adjusted tack downhaul keeps the sail under control while the sprit boom is set. Such maneuvers are ever so much more dignified aboard a yawl with the mizzen set first and sheeted in flat.
She is well balanced and well behaved, certainly sen-sitive to crew trim, but not demanding of much jump-ing about. The floorboard height previously mentioned sits very well, finding me happy to lean against the rail with my PFD cushioning me in a sweet spot for a long tack. When we did tack, the low centerboard trunk pre-sented no obstacle at all. I actually wasn’t tempted to sit up on a thwart or even to take the helm because the experience was just so comfortable and gracious. I did finally concede my comfort to the need to row into a windless cove to pick up our mooring. Nice long oars for the generous beam coupled with a modest wetted surface mean she is a lovely pulling boat, on the rare occasions that there is insufficient breeze for her large sail area. Vivier notes that he began to drift toward better performance under sail than under oar in this design, but I’d say he has nothing to be ashamed of.
Ilur’s bilge has enough space beneath the floorboards to store oars and a boathook—a great victory in the fight against clutter.
After my outing aboard WAXWING, I had several occasions over the next few weeks to observe her underway in a variety of conditions, including both big water and sheltered, calms and reefed. She is an able, comfortable, and attractive beauty. More impor-tant, though, let us consider when and where I got to enjoy her, for she was spending a late summer month in Maine waters. Her owners sampled the joys of group outings at the Small Reach Regatta (40 boats full of like-minded friends!), camp-cruised a bit going to and from the event, then trailered her farther downeast to Brooklin, where Gabrielle was taking a sailing class at WoodenBoat School. WAXWING’s curb appeal was so great that fellow students and, truth be told, their instructors, insisted on launching her for inclusion in one of the class outings. Then John and Gabrielle spent the following week in a rented cottage, daysail-ing on Penobscot Bay. I’d say this is the best evidence of a good design: using it to the fullest in its intended purpose, and loving it.
To order plans or request more information, contact François Vivier, www.vivierboats.com.
Particulars LOA 14′ 5″ LWL 13′ 5″ Beam 5′ 7″ Draft (board up) 10″ (board down) 2′ 10″ Sail area standing lug 131 sq ft sloop 151 sq ft yawl 133 sq ft
François Vivier offers plans for Ilur—as well as kits. The kits are cut and sold by Hewes & Co of Blue Hill, Maine (https://hewesandcompanyinc.com/marine/).
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Draught. 0.25 / 0.86 m. Design category / Crew. C3 / D5. Light weight clin / lattes. 300 / 345 kg. Building time with kit. 500 hours. Attention: there is two Ilur plans, the historic Ilur, now named "classic" Ilur, and a new "clinker-kit" Ilur which take profit of numerically cutting to make the construction easier.
Construction Photos. The Ilur kit is built in 400-800 hours and assembles much like many of our kits do, with a CNC cut strongback made of chipboard materials, precut 18mm bulkheads set up on the strongback, and precut 9mm planking with the NC Scarf to splice together the lengths of plywood. Our precut timber kit includes a number of CNC cut ...
Beautiful boat, very capable, practical, robust, and easy to sail. Preferred craft of Roger Barnes of the Dinghy Cruising Association. There is a story about his Ilur, AVEL DRO, in the August 2018 Messing About in Boats.She is also heavily referenced in his 2014 book The Dinghy Cruising Companion: Tales and Advice from Sailing a Small Open Boat. ...
The Ilur's genes come straight from the open workboat tradition of the Breton coast. The plumb stem and good wide transom, the firm bilges curving down to a long central keel for directional stability, decent freeboard and buoyant sections speak of a boat that'll look after you when things get tough. The Ilur is just one of many such boats ...
Ilur. Ilur was designed for family day sailing. She can be used for fishing and even coastal cruising and has generous freeboard. This makes a very versatile boat, with good seakeeping ability, but still in the "sail and oar" spirit. Its superior quality makes Ilur our second best selling Vivier design after the Morbic 12.
Vivier Boats. Chase Small Craft is pleased and proud to be the exclusive kit agent for these three exceptional Vivier boats, Ilur, Morbic 12, and Jewell. Clint was lucky to begin his career in boats with Francois Vivier's kits and collaborations, in particular the JEWELL, a perfect family daysailer and weekender.
Description from Boat's Main Listing. 14-1/2′ Ilur Yawl, designed by Francois Vivier. The boat is complete and ready to launch and sail. It has always been stored inside, covered, for the winter. All brightwork has been recently varnished, and all paint is in excellent condition. The lug-rigged, fully battened mainsail, with two sets of reef ...
View over 1000s of new and used boats and yachts for sale online. Buy a boat, Sell or list your boat for rent or sale, find berths, and more. Boats For Sale Power Boats Sail Boats. ... Francois Vivier Classic Ilur 15' for sale in Dorset United Kingdom . LOCATION. Dorset United Kingdom. YEAR. 2015. DETAILS. Condition. Used. Name. Unnamed. Year ...
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Drawing See photo albums Go to "clinker-kit" Ilur. Ilur was designed after Aber, in order to get a larger boat, able to family day sailing. She can be used for fishing and even coastal cruising. Three Ilur have been to Ile of Sein, at the extreme West of France, one of the worst place to go with tremendous tides and the worst sea conditions.
These sailboats have a minimum total sail area of 60 square feet, a maximum total sail area of 853 square feet and an average of 478 square feet. Boat Trader currently has 190 daysailer sailboats for sale, including 70 new vessels and 120 used and custom yachts listed by both individual owners and professional yacht brokers and boat dealerships ...
Ilur was designed after Aber, in order to get a larger boat, able to family day sailing. She can be used for fishing and even coastal cruising. Three Ilur have been to Ile of Sein, at the extreme West of France, one of the worst place to go with tremendous tides and the worst sea conditions. However, do not consider this as an invitation to go ...
An invitation to go for a sail in WAXWING ensued, and the wonders of a really fine design were revealed.Ilur is one of Vivier's most successful sail-and-oar designs (see WB No. 212). She is a small boat, just 14' 6", but will fool even experienced builders into thinking she is much larger. Perhaps channeling Arthur Ran-some, Vivier drew her ...
Of course Ilur is a trailerable boat and the simple rig is raised in a few minutes. She is very easy to launch and recover even by a single person. Launching of an Ilur built by Icarai in Cherbourg: Plans for Ilur are available in the Duckworks Store. Ilur builders and kits suppliers: France: Icarai: Centre d'activités, 4 avenue Louis Lumière ...
Drawing See photo albums Go to "Classic" Ilur. The Ilur named "Clinker-kit" is a new version of Ilur, designed in 2012 to be built from a numerically cut plywood kit. The hull planking is made of 9 mm plywood. Frames are cut into 18 mm plywood with a timber trim on all visible edges.
Ilur was designed after Aber, in order to get a larger boat, able to family day sailing. She can be used for fishing and even coastal cruising. ... The plans of the boat are now offered for sale, and the name of my ship became the name of the series. One of them won the "Great Glenn Raid" in its category in Scotland, which proves the quality of ...
Ilur is a popular sail & oars dinghy while Navigator is a cruising dinghy with a planing hull. Both have several interesting rig options. If you want a simple boomless Misainier sail, Ilur is the way to go. Comparing seaworthiness is tricky, as Ilur is heavier and has a displacement hull while Navigator has decks and is beamier.
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