Shane..or anyone....something to chew on.

[Norske3]

OK...so you don't want to fish from a sailboat with an outboard hangin' over the side.Take look at this list. smile.gif

web page (http://www.boat-links.com/Atkinco/Utilities/index2.html)

[ 02-21-2005, 04:15 PM: Message edited by: Norske3 ]

[boatlover]

Norske3:

That website is addictive !

Regards,

Ed R

[Billy Bones]

I note the fabled Rescue Minor on the under 20' page. This wonderous design has been recently executed by Robb White and much chronicled by him in MAIB! To paraphrase Robb, "Them ol boys knew something about boats!" What a gem!

[Ross M]

Yes, Atkin Was a Genius (http://www.messingaboutinboats.com/archives/mbissueaugust02.html)

This one is really tempting, living in a shallow water state...

Ross

[John Bell]

The most recent MAIB came yesterday with a couple of photos of Robb tearing around at 10 knots plus in 6" of water in his "Big Deal" Rescue Minor. :cool:

I don't know that I'd operate a boat that fast in that shallow of water by standing at the helm though! It'd be like when I was kid on a skateboard, tearing all-get-out down a hill UNTIL hitting small stone in the road. The skateboard stops and I keep going, grinding off way too much skin in the process. ;)

[Norske3]

Oh yeah...Ed R...addictive..but this is the season
for an additive to the blood. smile.gif

[boatlover]

Norske3,

I go to that website frequently.

Jump to bottom of page.

Click on "alphabetical listing."

Click on "A."

Then just take them in order .....

Some designs I hit the back button pretty quick,
just after the profile/sail plan drawing shows.

Some I read the whole article before backing up.

AND SOME I go to the end, and bact to the top, and then to the middle and down to the bottom and back to the top and ......

Ohh, sigh ! So many boats - so little time !

Regards,

Ed R

PS: Not being of the fisherman sort - a great diappointment to my grandfather - thinking about the Dingo's new horse has given me a different slant on the Atkins body of work. I had never seen GAIL or FISH HAWK.

Some of the designs maybe-appropriate to Shane have always stuck in my mind.

JOGALONG: Saucy/salty as they get. Designed for steel/aluminium - ought to be do-able in plywood.
A bit short, but adding about 2 feet for a little bigger cabin at the same time as redesign for plywood. Twin 18hp outboards in protected aft wells. Redundancy in case of breakdown.

CAP'N FRANK: Handsome, straight forward, no nonsense. Needs some shelter for the helm station, and a bit taller mast for steadying sail/jib.

(A design that I remember, that might be one for the Dingos consideration, doesn't appear in the list: LENA, a 25'ish foot raised deck, seabright skiff. Cabin forward, large cockpit aft. Had a shortish mast amidships that could be lengthened to add a steadying sail/jib. Would probably do well in the Bight, and should not be too hard to trailer. Would need helm station shelter as I recall.)

[boatlover]

Well, I just re-located my copy of YACHTS AND MEN, and there is PRINCESS LENA.

I don't remember the princess bit, but the Lena part stuck with as that was one of my grandmothers name.

The rest of my recollection was fairly accurate.

Regards,

Ed R