Iris II is constructed in a typical fashion for racing boats of her day. She is approximately 12m long, 2.7 wide, 1.8 deep. Her planking is native pine ( of some description!) on a combination of oak and steel ribs. Her deck beams and planking is also a very resinous pine. The stem, stern-post and hog is oak. She has a mahogany cabin roof, sides, cockpit, covering-boards and kingplank.
She is lightly built for racing with long overhangs. Flat spoon bow and long flat run on her stern... Not a comfortable boat in a seaway, but potentially fast and well suited to the swedish archipelago she was built for.
She was built with a gaff rig - but never carrying a top-sail as the rule did not allow it. but as mentioned earlier has been re-rigged at least twice. She now carries a classic Marconi-rig from a 55sqm Skerry Cruiser. Her rig is better suited to cruising today.
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