Don Olney whats this schooner??!

[Wild Dingo]

Mate whilst wandering through your albums due to your caladonia yawl thread I found this lovely lady... would you elaborate for me?

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid32/p4401c6657f1831ba38b409b947670b96/fd41ab8c.jpg

And mate whats up with the mast in this one? aside from wanting to clarify to meself what design she be... Im thinkin that mast is just a tad wrong or what?!!! :eek:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid35/pcd549b3b4fd6b826c4263c5310178400/fd2bf02f.jpg

ooh thanks for allowin me the chance to have a wander around and gander at your life! well a small part of it! :cool:

[Thad]

The second seems to be a Herreshoff S boat. I wait with the rest for the first.

[Don Olney]

Shane, the schooner is named ADIRONDACK. I don't know anything else about this boat. I keep forgetting to ask around about it. Maybe some other Forum member in the area knows. I took the photo last July from another boat in the lower Hudson/New York Harbor just off Canal Street in Manhattan.

The second boat is indeed a Herreshoff S-Boat (SUFI) that belongs to a naval architect friend of mine. I believe it was built in 1925 and spent most of its life in Maine. It is now located at the Sewanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay. S-Boats were designed for racing and they have a considerable bend in the mast. In addition to enhancing the boat's performance, this bend has two other practical points:

1. You can spot it easily in a crowded mooring, just look for a wonky-looking mast.

2. When you varnish the mast, it won't roll off the sawhorses.

-Don

[Alan D. Hyde]

Don, LOL. :D :D

Alan

[John B]

second that. LOL.

[TR]

Adirondack along with her sister Adirondack II was built in 1994 by Scarano Boatbuilding in Albany NY. The two boats are claimed to be 80' by 16', one assumes that is a spared length. Both are USCG certified charter vessels for 49 persons.

A bunch more at web page (http://www.scaranoboat.com)

Tad

[Don Olney]

Thanks Tad.

Here's another charter I got a photo of just after the Adirondack had passed. The "Circle Line" is in the background.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p03564ccfe6abeb20f842312a1aabad36/fc246d3d.jpg

Boy was that day hot! I think it hit 98 degrees and it was really humid.