The National Maritime Museum Cornwall holds an archive of plans by the well-known designer, Alan Buchanan which may be accessed on request. A summary of these is below. The list is work-in-progress as many of the plans are fragile or damaged and cataloguing is still under way.
To request more detail on any of these plans then contact us at library@nmmc.co.uk
| ID | Name | Vessel | Description | Design | Design Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0340.0465 | Pilot boat | 31ft Pilot Boat tbc | D0586 | ||
| 0340.1438 | Pilot Vessel Cruising Yacht | Pilot Vessel Cruising Yacht 1990 | D2316 | ||
| 0340.0934 | Police Launch | D1061 | |||
| 0340.0232 | PORPOISE special | Special PORPOISE | D0354 | ||
| 0340.0447 | Power Cat | 19ft Power Cat working boat 10/05/55 Designed for Yachts & Yachting I folding sheet for W Farrow found Rack tbc GH | D0568 | ||
| 0340.0450 | Power Cat | Power Cat Mk II | D0571 | ||
| 0340.1425 | Pram dinghy | 8ft Pram Dinghy Clinker Built – 1 sheet 23/12/88 | D2284 | ||
| 0340.1428 | Pram dinghy | 6ft Pram Dinghy Max. Beam 3ft 8 1/2in Weight: 60 lbs for fitting on the cabin top revised rfom original 1956 plan | D2325 | ||
| 0340.1381 | PRIOR 37 | Blue Saluki | 37 ft BLUE SALUKI Sail No 2158 Built by Prior’s Oct 64 for D D Mathews & F C Bathurst. ON 305815 Appears to have had updated rig in 1966. | D1633a | |
| 0340.1084 | PRIOR 37 | Malouine | 37ft 12 ton wooden Ocean Racing Sloop Spec 609 24/09/62 for Sir Harry Broadhurst Spec 628. built by Prior as MALOUINE 305654 also Spec 633 for P Allen, believed built as tbc | D1557a | 1962 |
| 0340.1387 | PRIOR 37 Spec 690 for E. L. Hennessy | Beth-A-Belle | Beth A Belle | D1685 | |
| 0340.1394 | PRIOR 37 Special | Caressa | 37ft PRIOR for Mr.J H F Hickman CARESSA 309004 Built by Prior R J 1966 for J H F Hickman (LYR 1970) | D1766b | 1966 |
| 0340.1644 | Provisional Drawing only | 49ft Fast Motor Yacht | D2149 | ||
| 0340.0648 | Pulling Boat | 17ft x 5ft 6in. Pulling Boat – 1 sheet only | D0773 | ||
| 0340.1427 | punt | 14ft Flat bottom fishing and shooting punt, solid timber – 1 sheet | D0132a | ||
| 0340.1451 | QUEEN | 38ft 11ton QUEEN Class – VASHTI Mk III from Reprint list. | D1727a | ||
| 0340.1273 | Racing Cruiser | 33.7 24ft D W L wooden Racing Cruiser Stock Plan Spec 749 No date for D N Tout, Spec 758 29/10/68 for R J Prior & Son as a standard boat. | D1848a | 1968 | |
| 0340.1279 | Racing Cruiser | Min Tha Me | 32ft Racing Cruiser Spec 755 10/10/68 for R J Hughes built as MIN THA ME by Marine craft Jersey 1969 Sail No 954Y | D1873a | 1969 |
| 0340.1500 | Racing cruiser | 27ft Racing Cruiser Cold moulded to Lines Plan D884 | D2100b | ||
| 0340.1286 | Racing Cruiser to One ton Cup rules | 27ft wooden strip planked round bilge Racing Cruiser to One ton Cup rules. Spec 768 02/12/68 For J Burns | D1884a | 1969 | |
| 0340.1299 | Racing Sloop | Zeus | 29ft wooden Racing Sloop Spec 788 21/10/71 for B L Kittow, Spec 790 10/11/71 for B L Kittow built as ZEUS | D1980a | 1971 |
| 0340.1101 | Racing Yacht GRP L | 82ft GRP Racing Yacht Spec 812 18/04/74 for J Grubic Australia | D2077b | ||
| 0340.1396 | Racing Yacht to RORC rules | 30ft/22ft W.L.Racing Yacht to RORC rules for Dekker Holland 4 of 6 sheets found | D1880a | ||
| 0340.0956 | Racked 5/19 | 13 ton steel motor sailer | D1083 | ||
| 0340.1341 | RAY Class | 17ft 3in x 6ft 8in 2 1/2 ton Aux Centreboard Sloop RAY Class Pocket Cruiser, Raised Topsides. Cabin Bermudan Rig Spec 3 No date for C Jervis to be built by Wyatt W Mersea, Spec 11 19/01/50 for Dr J C V Hindhaugh – 5 sheets See also D0162 JULIA and D0176 | D0115a | ||
| 0340.0041 | RAY Class Special | 22 Special RAY 14/02/50 tbc Note 17ft RAY Y&Y 1949/07 pp603 | D0158 | 1950 | |
| 0340.1498 | Re-rig of Avrion | Avrion | Running headsails for 58 ft Cruising Ketch AVRION for D Cassou | D1754 | |
| 0340.1483 | Re-rig of Easter | Easter | Sheet 1 proposed re rig for 35ft EASTER ON 301156 built 1960 by W King p on tp 16/08/65 | D1696b | |
| 0340.1289 | Re-rig of Echowe (tbc) | Echowe tbc | 46ft Steel Cruising Ketch Spec 773 02/07/69 for Re Rig , Echowe Syndicate, South Africa | D1891a | |
| 0340.1283 | Re-rig of Karamay | Karamay | Re Rig Karamay Spec 761 05/09/68 for D Hall, Spec 763 30/10/68 for D Hall | D1862 | |
| 0340.1481 | Re-Rig of Nantucket Special | Nantucket Special | 31ft NANTUCKET Clipper Special for IOR Rating | D1981 | |
| 0340.1574 | Re-rig of Perihelion | Perihelion (Ex Dakata) | New rig and sail plan for C Tilsons PERIHELION Ex DAKATA | D2148 | |
| 0340.1525 | Re-rig of Scorpion of Wyke | Scorpion of Wyke | Sail plan for 9 ton aux masthead sloop for Mr Whistler 25/10/65 Probably SCORPION of WYKE ON 305871 Built Sutton & Wiggins 1965 | D1840b | |
| 0340.1482 | Re-rig of staysail for Nantucket Clipper | Sheet 1 Boom Staysail for Nantucket Clipper p on tp 23/05/72 | D2018 | 1972 | |
| 0340.0504 | Re-rig of Stormcock | Stormcock | Stormcock Re -Rig03 | D0625 | |
| 0340.0617 | Re-rig of Zorbride | Zorbride | Zorbride Re rig | D0742 | |
| 0340.0792 | RNSA 24 | Phrynie, | Tasma of Mersea Re rig A RNSA 24 built as PHRYNIE BY Aero Marine Emsworth in 1951 | D0918 | |
| 0340.1402 | RORC Class III Sloop | Appaloosa | 33ft (24ft W.L) R.O.R.C. Class lll. Aux. Sloop for R Spence APPALOOSA Designed 1970 Built by ? Cold Moulded hull Raced in Australia 1975 Sydney Hobart event | D1922a | 1970 |
| 0340.1550 | RORC Racing Cruiser | 25ft Racing Cruiser to the RORC rating Rules 1972 prelim sketch 22/11/72 | D2042 | ||
| 0340.0550 | Runabout | 20ft Runabout | D0675 | ||
| 0340.0903 | Runabout | 11ft 6in Outboad Runabout | D1030 | ||
| 0340.1040 | Runabout | 12ft Runabout P Webster | D1168 | ||
| 0340.1041 | Runnabout | 12ft Runabout Fins Sparrow | D1169 | ||
| 0340.1544 | Sail plan | Hephzibar | 17 ton HEPHZIBAR 304593 Sail Plan listed as owned by A D N Balme LYR 70 Prior built AB Designed | D1634 | 1964 |
| 0340.1756 | Sail plan 37ft NANCY VOYAGER | 1 sheet 10/8/94 AHB | D2310 | 1999 | |
| 0340.1730 | Sail plan for 22 tonner for use in Mediterranean | 24/7/70 | D1735 | 1970 | |
| 0340.0989 | Sail plan for Caladen | Caladen | Sail; Plan Caleden D Armstrong | D1117 | |
| 0340.0152 | Sail plan for Carina | Carina | CARINA Sail Plan tbc | D0275 | |
| 0340.1430 | Sail plan for Carolann | Carolann | ‘Carolann’ Sail Plan for Graham Shaw Esq. | D2379 | |
| 0340.0159 | Sail plan for Corsair | Corsair | CORSAIR Alteration to Sail Plan | D0282 |