The Eventide Owners Association or EOA is dedicated to the preservation of the Yachting Monthly or YM
sponsored boat designs as well as further designs by Maurice Griffiths or MG and his fellow YM yacht designers.
The EOA is the official custodian of the plans for these designs which are available to members at cost.
The YM designs include the following yachts, boats and sailing dinghies:
YM Junior, YM Senior, Wild Duck, 3 Tonner, Goosander or Gooseander, Eventide, Storm 26, Mouette,
Waterwitch and the Riptide 31.
Non EOA sail boats we support include the following:
Golden Hind, Barbican, Cockler, Kylix, Lone Gull II, Lone Gull, Bawley and Dory.
nb: Study plans and design plans for these boats are available through the EOA.
The designers, craftsmen and boat builders that designed these classic sail boats are as follows:
Alan Buchanan, Kenneth Gibbs or Kenneth Gibb, Colin Faggetter or Faggetter or Fageter, John Rowland or
John Rowlands, with note to Phil Sheaf who was Maurice Griffiths agent and who very kindly allows the EOA
to sell some of the other MG designs which he holds.
The boats themselves were mostly wooden, plywood built boats with which it is possible to use a stitch and glue
technique. However there are some GRP or glass fiber ⁄ fibre and steel versions available. These classic
chine boats were often shallow draft or shoal draft, some with a bilge keel others with a centre board or centre
plate (inc. center board & center plate) and sported many sail arrangements includuing gaff rig, gunter,
bermudan or bermudian, cutter, ketch and junk rig.
The plans that we are able to provide will help the DIY boat building enthusiast or home boat builder, and those
interested in yacht restoration projects.