Boat plans Roberts Coastworker 30D

This design has been designed for steel construction. It has a full displacement hull and can be built as a family cruiser or as a rugged work boat. The multi-chine hull has provided an excellent overall hull shape and plating has been calculated to provide easy construction with minimum wastage. This design was prepared for operators in the North Sea and therefore the boat had to a rugged and safe sea boat.

The full displacement hull makes for economical operation and has been designed to operate around the 7 to 8 kt cruising speed range with a 60 hp engine. Anyone with welding experience should have no problems building this vessel using the full size frame patterns which come with the plans, and the straight forward, step by step instructions.

Study plans: These are intended to give you an overview of the particular design and include all available Accommodation plans, Sail plans, Material lists & Construction sheets covering available construction materials. All drawings are to scale and you can take measurements from these plans. There are between 6 and 10 sheets of drawings in the typical study plan package. CLICK HERE TO ORDER STUDY PLANS

This Coastworker 30 is being built by Graham in Gympie, Queensland. Inside has already all blasted and primed. When building upside down this is a good thing to have done before turning. The deck can then be made from plates blasted and primed on one side and then the entire outside can be done as one lot after all the welding is finished
Stringers notched into frames. Also shown in this shot is the skeg that has been designed to protect the prop and rudder from damage.	Working first one side then the other The hull plates are laid and tacked onto the stringers
Fully plated up bow section. Be sure to only tack weld plates until entire hull is plated	Last plate waiting to be laid on
Fully plated. Notice split pipe rubbing strake, a good thing to incorporate at this stage.	Rolling the hull over. Plenty of old tires required here.
Nearly there. Hull weight approx. two ton.	Graham is now working on the engineering, deck and superstructure. We hope to bring you more photos as he progresses towards launch day.

News from our Australian office:
Thanks for organising the CW30 hull. A builder wanted to know whether the CW30 was a planing hull or not. I rung back the next day, said that you had just this year had drawn the lines for a planing hull and that the Aust Maritime Collage were building the CW25 planing version. He asked me to fax some information. I faxed a small blurb to him along with the Catalogue page and received a call from his secretary 30 minutes later saying they would buy the plans. I asked if it was study plans of full plans to which she said "hold on, I'll go get him". Full set. he said.and went on to explain that he had built and launched 2 years ago a WR38 which he had stretched to 41ft. Found the plans easy to follow and so didn't need a study plan set, he knew they'd be OK. He lives in Gladstone which is only a bit over an hours drive away so when the plans arrive I plan to deliver them personally and get photos of the 38.

The only other one I've had like that was for a CW25. That chap had the hull built and turned over 2 weeks after receiving the plans. It was a small engineering shop with two partners, business was slow and so they decided to build themselves a boat. Still 2 weeks is a good effort and it's something that I mention to everyone. I did have reason to ring these men up again last Christmas, 5 months after they had bought the plans and the boat was completely finished. The call had been diverted from their work number to their mobile and they were on the Broadwater with their wives on the boat!

L.O.A.	9.20 m	30' 0"
L.W.L.	8.20 m	27'-0"
BEAM	3.40 m	11' 0"
DRAFT	1.20 cm	3' 9"
POWER	85 hp - 220 hp
SPEEDS	20 to 25 kt