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12 Day Rd
Rockingham, WA, 6168
Australia

0423 284502

With over 20 years experience in wooden boat building and repair Tony O'Connor is pleased to discuss any aspect of Wooden boat construction mast and spar construction and repair as well as outfitting boats of all construction methods with boat owners in Perth Western Australia.

Tony is  also available to cut CNC parts to order for customers.

Tony is also delighted to be the Australian builder for Francois Viviers gaff yawl Jewell design and is the authorised  supplier of cnc kits for Jewell ,and will be happy to supply complete or partial  kits for other Vivier designs to  costumers requirements

 

Deblois Street Dory

Deblois Street Dory
CLASSIC | UNIQUE DORY KIT | MODERN

SPECIFICATIONS
LOA   18' 8"
LWL   14' 7"
Beam   4' 10"
Draft (board up/down)   5"/27"
Depth amidships   18 3/8"  
Sail Area from 76sf (sprit) 89sf (lug) 

The DSD is what I consider the ideal sail & oar boat. This is a craft that will bring you utter joy under oar or sail. Too often you hear sail & oar boaters lament how much they wish they did not have to take their oars out to row. Or I hear them wish that their boat was not so tippy under sail. The D-Street does both equally. I fondly recall my first row in hull #1. I was worried that I had drawn too much boat to enjoy rowing solo. Boy, was I wrong. With my 9foot, spoon-blade oars we just flew along and she tracked great. The performance of the DSD can be summed up by a memory from one of my Shop Talk & Messabouts. Three dories were out sailing off East End, Portland: a DSD, a Swampscott dory out of Gardner's Dory Book, and another unknown Swampscott dory. I had 5 people on board as we passed by one of them:  "Why is your dory so fast!?" one sailor exclaimed. While speed is definitely not the point of a dory, it was still quite a compliment and a testament to the abilities of the D-Street Dory under sail and oar. 

 

Every time that I launch my Deblois St Dory, at least one person at the boat ramp comes up to admire and inquire about the boat. While others at the dock are shuttling back and forth in their dinghies or stressfully launching mammoth fiberglass powerboats ,I can untie, launch, load the dory and be underway in five or ten minutes. This ease of launch makes the boat very accessible for the times when I just want to go out for a short row after work or for a relaxing sail to watch the sunset. 
 
                  — Shane Hall, boatbuilder and owner of hull #

This is still the one and only TRUE DORY kit available on the market, anywhere.  The others are a messy stitch & glue construction or go together unlike a real dory.   

Initially, I had no plans to design a dory, but I found the dory form so elemental, practical, and beautiful.  I loved the versatility and seaworthiness they offered on the water, especially the Swampscotts variant. The dory represents the ultimate marriage of form and function. After my first design/build project -- the Drake 17 -- I had to have more. I could no longer suppress the urge to draw my own dory. The presentation drawing you see was the result of the first version of the DSD. I very much aimed to design a true dory. A true dory is built on by erecting the stem, frames, and transom on a precut bottom and flipping the whole assembly over onto a strongback cut with the intended rocker of the boat. With all the components shored and braced, planks can be bent. A true dory is cut with dory laps -- a bevel on the underlying and overlying planks. This second generation DSD hull is re-faired to better support the sailing capabilities of the boat and to make it even easier to build by eliminating the sometimes confusing dory lap and including a precut strongback.