Oday 7/11 help please

Aug 23, 2018
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Oday 7/11 RI
my 10yo daughter has recently taken sailing lessons and loves it. Someone gave us a 7/11 dingy sail boat that is missing many items. I am a powerboat guy and know nothing about Sailboats. I am hoping that someone has a complete 7/11 and can get me some pics? I can make the rudder and center board without a problem . I have the boom and half of the mast w no rigging. Can someone please help me as I am striking out on the internet

Thanks in advance
Paul
 

JRT

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Feb 14, 2017
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Catalina 310 211 Lake Guntersville, AL
You might be able to scale some idea on dimensions from this drawing based on the known length to get your rudder dimensions. If she just finished a class then I bet the school might have some old parts that they could give to her too, I know our club would do that to keep the youth excited. It is basically just an 8' (ok 7' 11") dingy so they are all about the same as long as you aren't expecting to go racing.

http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=7573

Hear are some sail dimensions too, again looking around for free from the local area would probably be best.
https://www.sailrite.com/Oday-711-Dinghy-Sail-Data

more info, looks like the mast is aluminum,
https://www.gjenvick.com/BangorPunt...08-Seven-ElevenYachtTenderDinghySailboat.html

That said if it were me I'd look at Ken's plans, he is great and I built my first plywood boat from him and it was a ton of fun. At the bottom he has his folding mast design available for free, but you might also like looking at some of his small sailing boats in the 7'-8 range too.' It might be faster to built one of those vs sourcing all your missing hardware.

https://www.portableboatplans.com/
 
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Oct 19, 2017
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O'Day Mariner 19 Littleton, NH
I am a powerboat guy and know nothing about Sailboats.
The 7/11 is a very basic sailing dinghy. The rig is as simple as they get. Check out the Optimus Pram clubs and Web sites. The Opti's are the most popular sailboat in the world and have a huge international racing organization. There should be no shortage of information on them. You should have no trouble at all transferring rigging (sheet and traveler) designs and hardware to the O'Day 7/11. You don't even need the sprit hardware because your sail plan is easier.
Great to hear your daughter loves sailing. I grew up sailing, but also took classes at the local club as a kid. You should consider taking a few classes right along with her. You'll love it, I promise. And a lot of the seamanship you'll learn is transferable to powerboats.

Welcome to the sailboatowners forum, I'm looking forward to watching your conversion. ;)

-Will (Dragonfly)
 
Aug 23, 2018
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Oday 7/11 RI
Thank you all very much for the replies. Your much better than me at searching the net. I have a call to a local marine consignment shop who thinks they may be able to help me. I will post the progress of the project. I did see the Optis online and they are was over our budget but are similar
 

JRT

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Feb 14, 2017
2,055
Catalina 310 211 Lake Guntersville, AL
Check those boats on portableboats link. They all use regular wood and materials from Home Depot. The small ones are usueal single sheet plywood and the sails are very easy to make.
 
Jun 11, 2018
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O'day Widgeon Lower Stanchfield
Do you have the sail and is it in good condition? If it's good then it should be easy enough to replace the missing parts. If you don't have the sail you will either have to have one made for it, make a polysail, or convert the rig to something readily available. Converting the rig will force changes to the rudder and board shapes.
You can get all the dimensions from the pics Sunbird provided. The boat has a draft of 2'4" with the board down and 4" with the board up. So the board length is the depth of the trunk +2'. The width is a little less than the trunk width. The thickness needs to be narrow enough to slide in easily. Be sure to allow some room for the wood to swell or you will end up with a stuck board. At a minimum round the edges. A foil shape with be much better for performance. The rudder dims can be scaled from the pictures and the known board dims. Pintles can be bought online. You can pay a lot or you can pay far less. I like the Racelite brand.
The sail dimensions are: Luff 9.5', Foot 6.83', and leech 10.42'. With these you can figure out the mast length required.
The rigging is easy. Just see the pics. Since your daughter will be sailing it, tie an empty, capped, jug at the top of the mast. Like the boat fender in the pic. This is to stop the boat from turning turtle when capsized.