One-ton dinghy SNARLEYOW.

[sandingblock]

Hi all, I've recently read William Gardens book 'Yacht Designs' and came across a small amount of information on SNARLEYOW a davit boat weighing about one-ton (with inside ballast). I've become keen on the idea of a reserch project on this boat, which I hope will lead to building one. I've already 'googled' around for information but haven't had much luck, does any one know anything about this design or where to find details of it?

Any help will be much appreciated,

Jonny.

[Jon Etheredge]

Well, this is a tangential reply but...

Seeing the name Snarleyow makes me think of the boat of the same name that was owned by W.P. Stephens. The Stephens boat was essentially a tiny plank-on-edge cutter hull, i.e. extremely narrow but very deep. Working from memory (that may be faulty smile.gif ) I believe the hull was only about 16' LOA and I think it was rigged as cutter. I also remember that Stephens did not design or build the boat but did own the boat for quite a long time. There is mention of the boat in one of the books by Atkins.

I am reasonably certain that the Stephens Snarleyow predates Garden designs so maybe this is where Garden got the name for his design?

[hacd]

i have a print of the lines of" Snarley yow"

designed by WBaden Powell -built in 1882-by Culzean yacht works

picture must have been chopped out of an old book .

[Jon Etheredge]

The yacht Snarleyow that was formerly owned by W.P. Stephens is now in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum. The catalog <U>Mystic Seaport Museum Watercraft</U> by Maynard Bray has a photo of the boat and these particulars:

14' 11" LOA
3'8" Beam

Designed by John Harvey and built by John C. Smith of New York in 1882. The boat is thought to have carried a cat rig originally but was re-rigged by Stephens as a cutter.

Turns out that the reference to Snarleyow in an Atkin book is only a sketch of the boat upside down on a trailer on the dedication page of <U>The First Book of Boats</U> edited by William and John Atkin and published in 1947 (the year after W.P. Stephens died).

Well, none of this will help much with your query about the Garden boat. Didn't mean to highjack the thread but the Stephens Snarleyow is a boat that has always intrigued me.

Can you give more details about the Garden boat?

[ 08-22-2004, 09:33 PM: Message edited by: Jon Etheredge ]

[sandingblock]

Yes, the Garden book has the same sketch of the boat upside-down on a trailer, with W. P. Stephens's name mentioned aswell (sorry I didn't detail this in my previous post).

Thanks for the Mystic tip, just been over to their web site and they have lines plans avalable, although I couldn't get the image link to load.

So that will get me started, thanks very much for your help.

Jonny.

[nedL]

Mystic Seaport does have plans for her (I bought a set years & years ago). They are plans for only her hull though as her rig does not exist, she was rigged as a cat. I've always thought she had real pretty lines, and even built a model of her a number of years ago (about 36" overall). I never cared to much for the look of the 'cat cutter' though (and considering there are no accurate records of her rig anyway) I rigged her as a regular gaff cutter (I used the rig of "Galina" (ex "Fox") also in the Mystic collection). I built her to be a real 'pond model', but was unable to get the internal ballast (about 3.5lbs) low enough in her narrow hull, so she floats with quite a list - oh well. I think I have some pictures of her I'll post.