Laurent Giles Jolly Boat Sailboats for Sale

Hull Type

Monohull · centerboard

Rig

Ketch

LOA

15.09' · 4.6 m

First year

1989

The Laurent Giles Jolly Boat is a robust, traditionalstyle open dayboat that prioritizes stability and seaworthiness over the highoctane speed typically associated with the racing dinghy of the same name. Designed by the esteemed firm Laurent Giles in 1983 (Design No. 0993), this vessel was originally conceived as a versatile project for home builders. Measuring 14 feet 10 inches in length with a generous beam of over 6 feet, it serves as a "big" little boat, capable of carrying a family of four or five in comfort. While it draws aesthetic inspiration from classic English workboats, its construction was modernized for marine plywood lapstrake (clinker) assembly, though a later production run in Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) was commissioned by AJS Marine in Chichester.