Ocean-Capable, Customised to suit your needs...

This website has been relaunched to herald the arrival of two new additions to the fleet, and of a new design. Now with an elegant interior fit-out featuring African mahogany.
The new skiffs have the same classic 14' Whitehall hull shape, long-proven fast and practical for rowing in open water conditions.

This design was commissioned by a local fisherman and we liked it so much we built two. The second is still available for $22,000 including GST.

Great for health & fitness

Rowing is one of the few non-weight bearing sports that exercises all of the major muscle groups and improves general muscular strength and cardiovascular endurance.

Stable, Ocean-capable Vessel

Our Open Water Rowing Skiffs combine a traditional ocean capable hull form with modern interior, biomechanics and materials. The result is an aesthetic mix of form and function that is an absolute pleasure to experience.

Highly Customisable

Our Skiffs can be rowed singular in slide-seat or fixed-seat configuration or two up in fixed-seat mode. You can also sail if you wish, with the addition of a simple rig or, if you must, hang an electric outboard motor over the transom!

More Details

The Standard Open Water Rowing Skiff consists of two bonded mouldings of Glass Reinforced Plastic. The bonding results in four compartments – two sealed buoyancy tanks and a further two storage compartments. A moulded mast socket allows the unstayed stepping of a carbon tube mast which supports a simple spritsail rig. The skiff is fitted with a slide seat, adjustable foot brace and folding outriggers to give a pin-to-pin separation of 1.6m and allowing 2.8m oar length.

The Skiff interior incorporates a central sump with drain plug located between two longitudinal seat runners. The sump cover doubles as a fixed seat for use in lieu of the slide-seat mode. There are two rowlock positions, both fitted with folding outriggers. A polyethylene battery box fits snuggly between the seat runners for use with an electric outboard.

We can customise your skiff to further accentuate the classic lines. We can give her a classic timber transom, timber gunwales and, as a piece de resistance, include a transom inlay.

Take a look in the Gallery to view some of our beautiful Open Water Rowing Skiffs.

Archived Blog Posts

August 11, 2012

A Local Raid

A “Raid”, for  the uninitiated, is a coastal adventure under sail and oar using small open boats. It’s a lovely way to mess about in boats -   distilling boating to its essence! You can roar around in flashy, fast boats […]
July 23, 2012

Glassy Sunday

This is weather more characteristic of May – long lazy calm days, only suspiciously suggestive of mid winter by the chill in the air. What wonderful weather for rowing! On the promise of a light afternoon Nor’easter we headed out […]
June 25, 2012

Rotten Bay

It’s a bit of a pejorative word, “rotten”. And to have a bay named “Rotten Bay” would strongly suggest that there is something less than desirable about its character. In fact, Rotten Bay on the south eastern end of Boston […]
June 11, 2012

Marina to Tulka and some observations along the way!

In a previous post this trip was described in reverse – Tulka, Horse Rock and Home. Another day, another season and with opposite wind conditions the jaunt was undertaken, again in company, but “arse about”! With sail stowed and canine […]
April 3, 2012

Grantham Island

Yet another pleasant row within Port Lincoln’s harbour is to encircle Grantham Island. Grantham lies in the throat of Proper Bay and to row around it from the Marina is a distance of about seven and a half nautical miles […]
March 29, 2012

Slalom Ride & Hard Slog

Port Lincoln’s harbour offers a multitude of great rows. There are three main lobes to the harbour; Boston Bay, Porter Bay and Proper Bay. The city’s central business district, wharf and bulk handling facilities overlook Boston Bay. The latter facilities […]
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