| Houdini | |
| Insignia: | File:Houdini sailboat sail badge.png |
| Image Boat: | File:Welsford Houdini sailboat Feisty 8376.jpg |
| Image Caption: | Houdini lug sail yawl |
| Designer: | John Welsford |
| Location: | New Zealand |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Builder: | amateur builders |
| Displacement: | 1870NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | monohull |
| Construction: | plywood |
| Loa: | 13.45feet |
| Beam: | 5.91feet |
| Engine: | optional outboard motor |
| Keel Type: | centreboard |
| Rudder Type: | transom-mounted rudder |
| Rig Type: | Lug rig |
| Sailplan: | lug sail |
| Sailarea Main: | 115.17square feet |
| Sailarea Total: | 115.17square feet |
The Houdini is a New Zealand sailing dinghy that was designed by John Welsford as a cruiser and first built in 2011.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The boat's designer intended it as an "escape machine" and so named it in honour of Harry Houdini.[3] [4]
The design is supplied in the form of plans. It has been built by amateur builders and also by some professional builders on a custom basis.[1]
The boat was designed for camping on-shore and provides stowage space to take a large amount of camping gear. It can accommodate four people for camping-cruising or up to seven people for day sailing. The design has sleeping accommodation for two adults under a boom tent.[3] [4]
The Houdini is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of wood, with a plywood hull and wooden spars and trim. The prototype used bamboo spars. It has a lug sail rig and can be fitted with a mizzen mast and sail as a yawl. It has a pronounced sheer, a plumb stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centreboard. It displaces 1870NaN0. A cuddy cabin is optional.[1] [3] [4]
The boat may be optionally fitted with an outboard engine for docking and maneuvering.[3] [4]
Boats have also been completed with gaff rigs and sloop rigs.[3]
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