WELCOME on the website of the naval architect ERIC HENSEVAL
SOURICEAU 4,75m (Young mouse in English)
Welcome to visit a singular boat specially designed for a seaworld personnality, who will return to sail the Blue.
Everybody knows something about "micro-cruising" ( http://www.microcruising.com/ ); maybe this is the art of sailing with little
seaworthy boats with simplicity.
They always realise fantastic nautical trips, either the route is long or not.
It is the most economical and simple formulae to sail.
"Souriceau" is designed for all waters, from the "gulf of morbihan" or "Cheasapeake bay"
to the Danube river,
and even to cross an ocean by the trades.
With much more comfort than the Berque brothers you can discover here, in this fantastic movie
http://www.creartisto.com/sansboussole/index.html)
logo Souriceau (self-construction)SOURICEAU - SELF CONSTRUCTION: contact Eric Henseval eric.henseval@orange.fr to receive documentation, details, and costs.
This is the initial formula of construction, very strong, and for everybody.: this is a simple construction method in plywood, built on a plug (detailed plans are furnished) with glass-fiber and epoxy resin. The boat is entirely covered by a thin glass-fiber and epoxy.
logo Souriceau, Otarie yard versionBUILT BY The Otarie yard:
tel: 0033. (0)2.97.45.04.97
Built by the Otarie Yard, Souriceau is different of the initial version: the Otarie yard has taste for old method of constructions, and the boats is built on her bulkheads, with traditionnal clamps and chines.
PRESENTATION VIDEO by a french Magazine:
Click here to start the video of Eric Vibart of Voiles et voiliers
She is 4,75m long, and 2,20m
wide.
With her important freeboard, she could be compared with a much larger boat, with a good inside volume.
She has 2 real 2 meters berths (with a minimum of 0,65m above), a little galley and a little chart table.
She is built in glass-epoxy-plywood, with 9mm thick pannels.
Two models are available, a chines one and a classic form one.
Let's go to build her in a garage, with cutting files of the little number of pieces to mount.
CARACTERISTIQUES
Lenght over all : 5.00 m
Hull lenght: 4.75m
Lenght at DWL : 4.75 m
Beam max.: 2,20 m
Draft max. : 1,35 m
Draft min. : 0.57 m
vertical and retractable keel
2 Berths
Galley and chart table
2 coupled tillers: one inside and one outside
Displacement : 530 kg
Ballast keel : 120kg
Sail area : 18 m2
TRANSPORTABLE, unsinkable
Built in
glass-epoxy-plywood
On the deck, you take place in the cockpit only when the weather
is good.
You find some solar flexible pannels on the flats pannels.
In the other case, you are sitting on the winward side (on a berth), and you see
all you wants on 360°,
behind your bubble of plexiglass, the inside tiller in the hand.
On little boats, everybody knows that we are strongly shacked and wetted.
With Souriceau, we are trying to remedy this discomfort:
She is designed to sail relatively fast to compensate her little lenght, with
good performances to windward,
and route stability in following winds.
When the keel is up, she stands on her bulb keel and on her 2 strong rudder-skegs without shore legs, with a draft of
0.57m.
Every car can tow the Souriceau, which can
stand in a garage too.
She is unsinkable with her integrated flottability foams.
The handling post is located in the litlle companionway-hatch like the Jester's one. http://www.jesterinfo.org.
You are well maintained above the small of the back to handle without effort of balance.
With a kayak skirt, you could even avoid your watertight sea trousers.
Inside, you can steer without spray owing to a fixed inside tiller
located under the cockpit floor, where two tiller pilots can be connected
to work in a dry place.
You have a good visibility (on 360°) inside the plexiglass bubbles,
sat on a cushion, the tiller in the hand.
All the sheets are ready to handle near the hatch, wich is covered by an ajustable top of Jester type (it can turn around the hatch).
Ventilation is well organized around different ideas, like this top and different hatches.
THE SET OF PLANS is composed of 14 big plans (A0 format: 1,189m by 0,841m!).) easy and detailed.
CEach bulkhead is detailed, until all stainless-steel little parts as pulpits, chainplates, etc..
Several colored sketches are furnished, with material lists, hardware lists, etc..
YOU CAN ASK FOR ALL THE DOCUMENTATION OF SOURICEAU (self construction) TO DISCOVER MORE DETAILS and print your order form.
Price of the set of plans: 500€.
Contact Eric Henseval : eric.henseval@orange.fr
Open the order form to see what the pakage contains
ORDER-FORM-SOURICEAU.pdf
Document Adobe Acrobat [139.7 KB]
Télécharger | Afficher
For information, a "raid-aventure" should be created to cross the atlantic with a fleet of Souriceau.
The boat is very seaworthy, as well as a good bigger boat of the 80'...and we can dream to sail on her across the ocean.
Version imprimable