Pee Wee is an ideal yacht tender at 2.1m (6’8″)and can be built with traditional clinker planking, plywood clinker planking or strip planking. The original Pee Wee was designed by Ian Smith to be the tender to his canoe yawl Tirrick in the 1980’s and was strip-planked and sheathed with glass cloth set in WEST System Epoxy resin. It was such a stable little dinghy that Ian drew up a traditional clinker construction plan and it became the subject of the majority of the Sydney Wooden Boat School’s Traditional Clinker classes in the 1990’s, some planked in Huon Pine and some in Australian Red Cedar, and one in White Beech. The Traditional Clinker manual, also available, focuses on the building of her bigger sister Petrel, a very similar boat.

The Traditional Clinker construction plan contains the fastening list as well. The plans contain full size patterns for the moulds and for the bow and stern transoms, so no lofting is necessary. Details for ply clinker and strip-planked construction are also included.

The original Pee Wee was strip-planked and had an unstayed gunter rig, but the centreboard case just forward of the main thwart meant that the rower would often get a wet bum.

Pee Wee is built upside down, as in this shot of a half-planked boat in Australian Red Cedar.