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If you are interested in nesting dinghies then you are probably already familiar with the world's only other production nesting dinghy, the NN10. She is a 10 foot stem dinghy that splits into two nesting sections, with a strong sailing performance from her Bermudan Rig. She rows superbly and can be motored. As we had a gap in our range at this size, rather than "reinvent the wheel" we have teamed up with the Canadian owners and builders NestingLite to offer the same boat in the UK and Europe. |
We are still working on costings and European Approval, but hope to offer
her at about the same price she sells for in the USA, plus VAT, equating to
approx £3,200 for the full sailing version. This will be a considerable saving
on importing/shipping the boats individually from the USA, without all the
hassle of Customs officials and getting a one-off RCD rating, etc.
Like all craft in the Nestaway Boats range, the NN10 is designed to split into
two nesting sections for easy transport and storage. She can be assembled
on a yacht's deck, at the slipway, or (uniquely to the NN10) in the water.
If you assemble in the water, part of the bow section fills - so you do have
to bail it out afterwards, but the temporary weight assists in aligning it with
the stern, which would otherwise be much lower in the water.
The NN10's connector mechanism is of a different design to our other boats,
using large diameter nylon threaded sections, similar to skin fittings, instead
of our half inch chromed ringbolts. Both have their merits: the plastic sections
float if you drop them; the ringbolts seem to be easier to do up and are indestructible but definitely don't float (although you can tie them to the
boat with a piece of string)!
Assembled the dinghy is 10ft 2" (3.1m) long, with a beam of 4ft 5" (1.3m).
With the sections nested, length is 5ft 8" (1.7m) and height 20" (51cm). We
are awaiting confirmation from NestingLite about the NN10's weight, but we
think it is a bit more than the 44kg quoted on their website.
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Click here for: NN10 Drawings & Dimensions
More information will be posted on this site as we get closer to UK production,
but we plan to be delivering the first European NN10s in July this year (2010).
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further queries, or would
like to reserve a place on the waiting list.
Contact us -
Phone: +44 7768 600595 (Ian our managing director)
Email: nestawayboats@yahoo.com
We also do a smaller clinker effect Nesting Stem Dinghy, click here:
7ft10" Nesting Stem Dinghy
And a Pram-bow Nesting Dinghy, with similar volume/capacity to the NN10
but that nests into a smaller space, click here:
8ft2" Nesting Pram Dinghy
Nestaway Boats Ltd is the sole European Builder & Distributor of the NN10
sectional nesting dinghy by NestingLite Dinghies.