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The Register

The Fleet at a Glance


Every figure on this page is counted from the register as the page is drawn. Nothing here is an estimate, and nothing is a projection. The detailed charts below describe the published fleet.

13 Registered Boats
9 published · 4 in progress
11 Builders
7 Designs
8 States / Regions
3 Countries
1 Launches This Year

The Fleet

What the register holds

Each chart says what it is a proportion of. Where a builder left a question blank their boat is simply not counted, rather than counted as an answer nobody gave.

Boats by Type

Mini Tugs
4
Dinghies
2
Cruisers
1
Rowboats
1
Skiffs
1

Every one of the 9 boats in the register. Shares are of the whole fleet.

Boats by Material

Every one of the 9 boats in the register. Shares are of the whole fleet.

Build Status

Laid Up
1

Every one of the 9 boats in the register. Shares are of the whole fleet.

Most Represented Designs

Candu E-Z
4

4 of the 9 boats in the register recorded this. Shares below are of those 4, not of the whole fleet.

Only designs with more than one registered build appear above — a set of plans somebody has built from twice is the thing this chart is about. Every design in the register, however many boats it has, is in the catalogue.

When

The fleet through time

Launched boats only. A launch date in the future is a booking, not a launch, and is not counted until the day comes.

Launches by Year

1 2012
0 2013
0 2014
0 2015
0 2016
0 2017
0 2018
0 2019
0 2020
0 2021
0 2022
1 2023
0 2024
1 2025
1 2026

4 of the 9 boats in the register recorded this. Shares below are of those 4, not of the whole fleet.

Boats by Decade

1 2010s
3 2020s

4 of the 9 boats in the register recorded this. Shares below are of those 4, not of the whole fleet. A decade with nothing in it is shown empty rather than closed up — the gaps are part of the shape.

Where

Geographic distribution

Counting only boats whose builders chose to say where they are. A builder who asked for no location at all is in the register and in none of these figures — that is exactly what the setting means.

See the fleet chart →

By Country

Canada
1
Greece
1

Every one of the 9 boats in the register. Shares are of the whole fleet.

By State or Region

8 of the 9 boats in the register recorded this. Shares below are of those 8, not of the whole fleet.

How Long

What a build costs in time

A typical build
2 years 8 months, from the first cut to the water. The middle value across 4 finished builds that recorded both dates. The middle rather than the average, because one boat that took twenty years pulls an average somewhere that is true of nobody.
Quickest and longest
5 months, and 3 years.

The Archive

How much of it is written down

A registry is only as good as what its builders put into it. This is the honest measure of that.

188 Photographs
45 Build Log Entries
9 Boats with Photographs
6 Boats with a Story
6 Boats with a Journal

Out of 9 boats in the register. Every one of these numbers goes up when a builder writes something down.