Gypsy
- 28ft Cruiser
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The GYPSY 28 was the Woods Designs own cruising boat for five very successful years It was designed as an easy to build budget ocean cruiser and many are now sailing in all corners of the world. It's central cuddy is a feature seen on several of our most recent designs, as it combines the advantages of the open deck boat's easy access forward with the central saloon and cockpit protection of a bridge deck cabin boat.
There is standing headroom and 4 berths in the hulls and a dinette and galley in the central cuddy - which also features standing headroom. Hulls can be flat panel or round bilge and GYPSY can be built in ply, foam sandwich or strip plank. It is the minimum size boat we suggest that a couple use for ocean cruising. It can be built in sections and assembled by the water. "GYPSY is a solid, safe yet remarkably nippy and budget conscious cruiser" - Multihull International.
"Of all the multihulls I've sailed, GYPSY presents about the strongest case in favour of cruising on two hulls" - Practical Boat Owner.
A plywood Gypsy being built in Panama, photographed in March 2005 |
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GYPSY 28 Budget Offshore CruiserTHE FACTS AND FIGURES
strip cedar round
bilge hulls, ply decks
photo shows Gaia at 15 knots off Portugal ===================== Please compare the two Gypsy's above. Lightwave, on the right, is much heavier than Gaia, on the left. Yet both have been successfully used as live aboard cruisers for thousands of miles. Remember that Gypsy was designed as a "Budget Ocean Cruiser" So please build and fit it out on a budget! It is too small a boat to fill it with lots of "goodies", see below for some of them
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