Pinky...second look...second drool.

[Norske3]

This is a Crotch Is Pinky http://www.boat-links.com/PT/PT2003/GraceB-1.jpg

[ 07-20-2005, 09:00 AM: Message edited by: Norske3 ]

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

I still like the blue one in the background better ;)

Edited to add: even the guy walking on the dock probably never even noticed the other boat :D

[ 07-19-2005, 09:07 AM: Message edited by: Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson ) ]

[Norske3]

So paint pinky blue and be just as happy. :D ....difficult to sail the biggy solo.

[ahp]

I don't know what to call it but it is not a Pinky. A Pinky is small decked schooner, gaff rigged and carries a bow sprit. They are doubled ended and the bulworks, usually low, are extended outside of the rudder post at the stern.

Yes, the boat in the picture is worth a drool.

[muscongus]

From Chapelle's "American Small Sailing Craft"
page 139:
"Hence the Maine double-enders were often called "Crotch Island pinkies," though they did not have pink sterns. It should be noted, perhaps, that in Maine the name "pinky" has often been applied to any sharp-sterned boat, even though the pink-stern was not used. This modification or variant of the New Hampshire boat is recorded in numerous half-models and by a few hulks that existed until about 1940"
I think this is what they had in mind when they called it a pinky.
Jack

[ 07-19-2005, 01:23 PM: Message edited by: muscongus ]

[Billy Bones]

Izzinat the 'No Man's Land Boat' or whatever it's called that the prodigously gifted youngster recently built for some school that was featured in WB a few issues back? The rudder-mounted main traveller/bale puts me in mind of it, anyway.

[Dave Fleming]

http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL780/3097474/6292566/105155758.jpg

Got this photo labeled Crotch Island Pinky.

Look similar?

[Hwyl]

Numbers don't lie (or sometimes don't)

[Pernicious Atavist]

daddy, i want one!

oh...what's a "pinked" stern?

[kenjamin]

One word for the Crotch Island Pinky: Sweet!!!
Where's the tiller?

[Jack Heinlen]

Beautiful boat! The Apprenticeshop in Bath, under Lance Lee, revived interest by building a few out of Chapelle.

Crotch Island is well named. If you look at a chart it looks like a pair of pants, with a fiord-like cut up the middle. It has the only island granite quarry still working on the coast of Maine. I imagine they don't use Crotch Island Pinkies to haul it, if they ever did.

So who has a copy of Chapelle's small craft book, and can tell us why it's named so?

[Norske3]

CURVES...ITS ALL ABOUT CURVES.....SO WHY ARE CURVES SO EYE APPEALING? :D ....on a woman...on a car ...on a boat...on a plane...on and on...something built into the brain. :confused:

I think I have Chaps book....will see.

[ 07-21-2005, 08:47 AM: Message edited by: Norske3 ]

[rbgarr]

There was a WB article a while ago about the visual aesthetics of boats (versus sailing, rowing, etc.) and what about them has general appeal.

[Venchka]

Yup. It's all about compound curves. Which might explain why I can't come to terms with a well known designer's "Square Boats". Good boats ain't square. To my untrained eye anyway.

This boat comes up now and again. I never tire of seeing it.

Wayne
In the Swamp. :D

[Pernicious Atavist]

OKAY--here's from ASSC, pg 138-9:

"By the date of the alleged introduction of the centerboard, (ca 1857) the building of the double-ender in Casco Bay had become very active at Crotch Island, now called Cliff Island. Hence the Maine double-enders were often called 'Crotch Island pinkies,' though they did not have pink-sterns. It should be noted, perhaps, that in Maine the name 'pinky' has often been applied to any sharp-sterned boat, even though the pink-stern was not used."

On pg 145, Chapelle continues to discuss the subject boat, where he also states the type is known additionally as a "casco Bay double-ender, "though I won't continue transcribing....

[Jack Heinlen]

Thanks PA. Chapelle is a treasure.

I learned that the current Crotch Island has no relationship to the boat, but Cliff Island does. Most interesting. Now I'm gonna have to look on my chart and try to figure out why Cliff Island was once called Crotch. Off hand I don't remember any other than Crotch that so deserves the name, but I guess Cliff must have a cut too.

Where's Coose? That ol' Maine hand likely has a story or two, given that he lives on Casco Bay.

Casco Bay Double Ender hasn't the ring of Crotch Island Pinky, which is, undoubtedly, the reason the latter stuck.

Thanks again. I've been eagle-eyed for that book when I go to used book stores, but it's not in the bookcase.

[Venchka]

Heck, Jack, Powell's Books in Portland, Other Coast, has a brand new copy with your name on it.

Wayne
In the Swamp. :D

[StevenBauer]

Mary and the girls and I sailed on the Atlantic Challenge's Crotch Island pinky last month. But we left the camera in the car. :( Those big spritsails were something!

Very neat boat.

Jack, bring your boat down and we'll sail around Cliff Island.

Steven

[Pernicious Atavist]

try this when looking for books; this is the site i use....
http://www.fetchbook.info/

[Norske3]

so steve..."How big was it?....hull and sprit sails".