Toona and Wishing Blossom - John Bell's new designs

[imported_Steven Bauer]

I got the new issue of Messing About In Boats yesterday and there is a nice article by our own John Bell about two of his newest designs.

Toona is an outboard garvey 15' 10" x 5' 9" and Wishing Blossom is a lug rigged sailing dinghy 11' x 5'.

Lookin' good, John! For the few of our members who might not subscribe to MAIB is there someplace they could go to see for themselves?

Steven

[John Bell]

Aw, shucks... I haven't got my issue yet, I'm interested to see how much of the stuff I sent him gets published.

I've previously shared these boats on the forum in various threads. I suspect if you went back you could find them.

[Tom Lathrop]

John,

I will join in with the praise. They look like very nice boats. I did expect a third one to be called "Ala" though. We might argue over several points but you make a logical case for the way you did them.

The naming of "Wishing Blossom" is especially neat. Good on ye.

[ 10-24-2004, 11:41 PM: Message edited by: Tom Lathrop ]

[John Bell]

Thanks, Tom. I'd be interested in discussing your thoughts about the boats sometime over a cup of coffee.

There is a third boat that will come in a later issue, a stretched version of my Blackberry dory. The article and the drawing I sent to Hicks are intended to built directly from the magazine. Call it part of an effort to get more row boats in the world.

[Wild Dingo]

errr um is there a chance someone can scan and post the critters? :cool:

Somethin new is always worthy for the eyes of the WBF surely?? ;)