Traditional gaff rigged day-boat
| Hull length / waterline | 4.46 / 4.06 m | Sail area | 14.3 m² | ||
| Breadth / waterline | 1.68 / 1.46 m | Outboard motor | 4 hp | ||
| Draught | 0.25 / 0.86 m | Design category / Crew | C3 / D4 | ||
| Light weight clinker / Strip planked | 350 / 390 kg | Building time with kit | 500 hours |
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Beg-Meil is a traditional day-boat, gaff sloop rigged, just like many that existed in the old days. It is elegant and seaworthy with its half-deck and varnished wood coamings. A steel pivoting centreboard (40 kg) provides stability and performance. She could be used as a day boat, in the style of old dinghies. You can sail alone, or with a crew of 3 and even 4. She is planked over plywood bulkheads, either with wooden strips or marine plywood lapstrakes. The lapstrake or clinker-built version is easier to build.
Launching and recovering from a trailer is effortless.
Hull shapes are the same as Ilur. Ilur is a reference sail and oars boat, with more than 1000 plans already sold. The first Beg-Meil, named Pepito, was launched in Carnac in July 2005. She was built by the amateur builder Benoit Brabant using a kit supplied by Icarai. See our photo album. Many others are sailing or under construction.
Karl Nelson is building a Beg-Meil and keeps a very detailed blog.
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Pablo Monat –
Dear François. I am a big fan of your designs. It changed my life in what to expect of a sail boat. You got confused because i adressed a Juan and you do not know who he his. Juan is the person which made the comment above of mine. He is from Argentina as I am and I asked him if by chance he built a Beg -Meil in Argentina. Beg Mail Is my favourite of your designs for big rivers which abound here in Argentina. If there is a Beg Mail in Argentina I definitely want to see it, and if possible sail it. Some day i may build one by my own… i know that both post are 4 years apart. But who knows Juan come back around!?
Kind regards and sorry for the confusion.
Pablo Monat
François Vivier –
Hello Juan. This was a mistake I have fixed. Thank you for your comment.
Juan –
Hey guys. I’ve seen you have the strip full size patterns by e-mail, but the clinker one just by mail. The problem is that I live in Argentina, and I’m not sure if you send mail to my country. I would like to buy the clinker full size pattern by e-mail.
Regards
Juan