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Truant

Traditional Large Craft Students planking a TRUANT-class sloop.

The TRUANT class is a class of seven boats designed by Ed Louchard and built by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in the mid-1990's. The Truant was offered at $35,000, new.

The sloop is 25' 6" long with a beam of 7'6" . The class has a draft of 3'8" with the full keel, and displaces 4,100 pounds. The lower sails of the gaff rig carry 280 square feet of sail.

The class was specifically designed as a weekender/daysailor in the classic tradition. She was created to deal well with the chop and tide rips found at the mouth of Port Townsend Bay, on which the School is situated.

The Truants were built of Western red cedar over white oak frames on a fir backbone. They are bronze-fastened with a lead ballast keel. Most of the class carries either a 2-cylinder 6hp Yanmar diesel engine or a 1-cylinder 7hp Westerbeke diesel, though at least one boat was built without an engine.

Standing rigging is galvanized hand-spliced wire rope traditionally parceled and served. Running rigging was three-strand dacron reeved through rope-stropped wooden blocks.

Sails were synthetic sailcloth, with a double reef sewn into the main. A jackyard topsail could also be carried.

Most boats in the class are open boats, but at least one was built with a small cabin.

The boat's full keel, sea-kindly motion and ample cockpit capable of easily accommodating eight people, makes the class an ideal boat for sociable racing and sailing, though she can and often is sailed solo as well.

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is a private, accredited non-profit vocational school.

Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.

We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades.

Give us a call if you're interested in us building a boat for you!

You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .

You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.

Taken in: United States / Washington / Port Hadlock (show map)

Taken on: March 2, 2011

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