Let's solve the MIST Mystery!

[Hans Lassen]

This is beginning to bug me :( . Sitinwalk's query farther down this site and our answers made me wonder if there really IS a Mist :confused: ? As I really did like the design and as it seems a feasible enough boat, too, I started looking for likely threads some time ago , but to no avail. I was left with the odd feeling that I missed something; but why hasn't a single person on this able-bodied forum come forward as yet that could provide satisfactory answers? Or photos? First-hand information? Quite a lot of forumites said that they did not receive e-mail information from the designer so I didn't try myself.

Threads in Designs/Plans:

1) redwing 07-12-2001
2) Stambaugh's Mist 07-23-2002
3) Trailerable Cruising Sailboat Ideas 07-31-2002
4) rig on stambaugh's mist 09-23-2002
5) Looking for a Friendship similar design 09-25-2002
6) Interesting new design- 19' Cape Cutter 10-16-2002
7) Lapstrake (18-20')with cuddy 10-21-2002
8) Karl Stambaugh's Mist 12-09-2002
9) Karl Stambaugh's Mist Sloop 06-07-2003
10) Stambaugh's Meadowbird/Rabl's Titmouse 06-16-2003
11) Karl Stambaugh's MIST 06-23-2003

Nothing in Building/Repair, no hits in People/resources, no hit on the google search - forgive me the pun, but there's definitely some sort of heavy fog around that design :D .

To sum it up: I could do with a little help from the Dr. Watsons out there. Let's lift the fog tongue.gif !

[Jonas]

Hans, yes, it is somewhat of a mystery as to why no one has yet come forward to having built and enjoyed sailing the Mist. I had bought the plans for Mist, and was ready to build. The things that held me back at the time were the internal ballast, relatively low freeboard, and lack of an enclosed head (required by SWMBO). Not that any of these things would keep Mist from being an excellent day sailer. I was looking for something a bit more seaworthy and roomy. Stambaugh does include a sheet of plans for an external keel, but that would have made it more difficult to trailer. I'm now well into building Welsford's Penguin, which seems to have all the features that I was looking for.

[George Roberts]

I noticed that the plans are offered in 40 (perhaps 30 or 50) wooden boats you can build (or whatever the title is).

I suspect it was popular at one time.

The drawings look nice.

[Wayne Jeffers]

Forty Wooden Boats is really but a catalog of plans available from the WoodenBoat Store. I don't think that Mist being listed there necessarily means it was a popular design, but who knows?

Because the plans are offered by the WoodenBoat Store, and as Mist is not described on the CMD web site (although you can purchase the plans from there, also), I've wondered if the design was commissioned by the WoodenBoat Store. ???

If someone were seriously interested, you could call Karl Stambaugh and ask a few questions. As has been noted, he is not terribly responsive to e-mail, but I called and ordered Mist study plans over the phone and he seemed pleasant enough.

After receiving the study plans, I followed up with a few brief e-mail questions. In his e-mail response Karl indicted that a Mist had been abuilding on Lake Erie, though he had lost track of the project, but he knew of none near me in SE Ohio. (My subsequent e-mail was unanswered. :( ) I assume that others have been built, but I have no specific information.

Wayne

[Hans Lassen]

Thank you, fellows, for the input. I'll just wait a little longer and search around some more... you see, I have only ever built open boats where the plank shape was predetermined (?that the right word?) on the plans. So now that I seriously contemplate starting with a decked boat with a cabin (my wife decreed that she would only come along when I go further away from the coast if there's a roof over her head :rolleyes: ) (I love her so even if I enjoy the sensation of the elements like when it's raining I have no objections - besides the boat could be left on a mooring, making it much quicker to set sail and be off), I hesitate tackling a project like the Wee Seal which I think is absolutely goodlooking AND obviously very seaworthy, too. MIST comes very close to meet both my abilities and dreams. There's double-ended small schooner by Mr Garden I think that I consider, too.
Come October/November I'll make up my mind and order the plans smile.gif . Off to the workshop now: there's the Christine canoe for my godson waiting for another coat of varnish tongue.gif .
I envy people who are able to work on boats for a living.

[T.KAMILA]

I too bought plans for Mist. Began lofting the boat just before filing for taxes. To make a long story short the IRS took about four feet off my boat that year. I ended up building my catboat Chubette. I also spent a lot of time looking for other builders and found one. The fellow that was building lived in Arizona. I e-mailed him a few times and never go a reply to my last one. I could give you his e-mail but it resides on my old hard-drive that is tagged on to my new computer as a slave. My motherboard went on my old computer so I bought a new Dell last March. No one has been able to tell me how to get my old e-mails and e-mail address from that old hard drive. It couldn’t be that difficult. So if any one can tell me how to get those old e-mails off my old hard drive maybe we can track down the first Mist to be built. Windows 98 on the old hard drive XP on the new one.

Tom

[WWheeler]

Kamilla, to get your old e-mails you'll need to find the e-mail file, and copy it from the old to the new machine. Are you using Outlook or Outlook Express? The file structure varies a bit. In Express, the default location is: C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express. If I remember correctly, in Express each folder that you create has a different file.

[T.KAMILA]

Thank you Mr. Wheeler I got it. Took some tinkering with file names but I was able to fool the new outlook express into showing me the old files.
The fellow’s name is John and he lives in southern New Mexico. About three years ago I corresponded with him and at the time he had the hull complete and was fitting her deck and cabin. Said he was going to sail her on a lake called Elephant Butte. That’s about all I know. I just sent him another e-mail and hope to hear from him. I also informed him about the post so maybe he’ll show up here.

I’ll keep you informed

Tom

[ 09-17-2003, 09:49 PM: Message edited by: T.KAMILA ]

[T.KAMILA]

Update,

Just received this on Outlook Express, (550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
550 <jhi1138737@aol.com>... User unknown)

Well so much for that effort. Any one out there sail on Elephant Butte in southern New Mexico? If so be on the lookout for Mist.

Tom

[ 09-17-2003, 09:48 PM: Message edited by: T.KAMILA ]