The Tammie Norrie is basically a traditional workboat of medium size; a type which happens to make a particularly useful and attractive recreational boat.
This is one of the most popular of our Oughtred designs both in the UK and also cut by our agents in the USA, Australia and the Netherlands.
She has a good rowing performance, with one or two pairs of oars. A stable boat for her size, she normally carries 2, 3 or 4 people, but could take 5 in flat calm. Under sail, four is about a comfortable maximum. While not dramatically fast under sail or oars, the boat does perform very well for a comfortable, stable, load-carrying hull.
Three optional sailing rigs are given on the plans. The loose-footed standing lugsail is the ultimate in simplicity. The yawl is a common traditional rig, but here drawn with a balanced lug foresail for easy handling and safety. It is a very versatile rig, easily managed single-handed. The gaff sloop rig is of course more complex to set up, and to handle, but a lot of fun for a crew of two or three.
The sails on the lug or yawl rigs are interchangeable; the standing lugsail can be used in the yawl, or the balanced lug by itself.
The standard version is 13½’, and there is also a popular stretched version at 15’ which gives a bit more space for passengers and more room for two rowers to speed the boat when the wind doesn’t blow.
She has also been stretched to 16’ for one boat in South Africa, but this will need a bit of work on the sheer if it is to be repeated.
Blogs on building the Tammie Norrie from our kits have been written by Alan Richards in Texas at “A Thing of Beauty” and by Sean in Australia at “Sean’s Tammie Norrie“. There may be more that we are not aware of! Though Sean mentions a supplier at the start of his blog, the actual kit was supplied by our Australian agent StrayDog Boatworks through the other supplier.
(Tammie Norrie is the Scots name for the Puffin or Razorbill.)
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