SOURICEAU 4,75m : translated in english, it is "YOUNG MOUSE 4,75m"

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Welcome to visit a singular boat specially designed for a seaworld personnality, who will return to sail the Blue.
The boat will be built in Arzal (56-South Brittany), in the shipyard "l'Otarie" in FRANCE  http://www.lotarie.com/
contact : Tél. 0033 297 450 497
Fax. 0033 297 450 344
contact@lotarie.com
Ready to sail or different steps of construction available

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The boat can be built too by a private person. Plans and details can be purchased at this mail address: e-mail: eric.henseval@orange.fr  
View contents here ; 14 plans A1-A0 + 9 detail sketches, with a lot of  plans to scale 1
Price of  plans:  480€ (price could be revised)

 
Everybody knows something about "micro-cruising" ( http://www.microcruising.com/ ); maybe this is the art of sailing with little seaworthy boats with simplicity. 
 They always realise fantastic nautical trips, either the route is long or not.
It is the most economical and simple formulae to sail.

"Souriceau" is designed for all waters, from the "gulf of  morbihan" or "Cheasapeake bay" to the Danube river,
and even to cross an ocean by the trades.
With much more comfort than the Berques brothers you can discover here, in this fantastic movie  http://www.creartisto.com/sansboussole/index.html)

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She is 4,75m long, and 2,20m wide.
With her important freeboard, she could be compared with a much larger boat, with a good inside volume.
She has 2 real 2 meters berths (with a minimum of 0,65m above), a little galley and a little chart table.

She is built in glass-epoxy-plywood, with 9mm thick pannels. Two models are available, a chines one and a classic form one.
Let's go to build her in a garage, with cutting files of the little number of pieces to mount.

CARACTERISTIQUES      Lenght over all : 5.00 m      Hull lenght: 4.75m      Lenght at DWL : 4.75 m      Beam max.: 2,20 m      Draft max. : 1,35 m      Draft min. : 0.57 m      vertical and retractable keel      2 Berths      Galley and chart table      2 coupled tillers: one inside and one outside      Displacement : 530 kg      Ballast keel : 120kg      Sail area : 18 m2                   TRANSPORTABLE, unsinkable     Built in glass-epoxy-plywood

On the deck, you take place in the cockpit only when the weather is good. You find some solar flexible pannels on the flats pannels. In the other case, you are sitting on the winward side (on a berth), and you see all you wants on 360°,  behind your bubble of  plexiglass, the inside tiller in the hand. On little boats, everybody knows that we are strongly shacked and wetted.  With Souriceau, we are trying to remedy this discomfort: The handling post is located in the litlle companionway-hatch like the Jester's one.  http://www.jesterinfo.org. You are well maintained above the small of the back to handle without effort of balance. With a kayak skirt, you could even avoid your watertight sea trousers. She is designed to sail relatively fast to compensate her little lenght, with good performances to windward,  and  route stability in following winds. When the keel is up, she stands on her bulb keel and on her 2 strong rudder-skegs without shore legs, with a draft of 0.57m. Every car can tow the Souriceau, which can stand in a garage too. She is unsinkable with her integrated flottability foams.

Inside, you can steer without spray owing to a fixed inside tiller located under the cockpit floor, where two tiller pilots can be connected to work in a dry place. You have a good visibility (on 360°) inside the plexiglass bubbles, sat on a cushion, the tiller in the hand. All the sheets are ready to handle near the hatch, wich is covered by an ajustable top of Jester type (it can turn around the hatch). Ventilation is well organized around different ideas, like this top and different hatches.

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