45 foot Hand schooner

[Thad Van Gilder]

I found a 45 foot Hand designed schooner in a book of designs from popular mechanics magazine. I Think it is called Typhoon...

anyway, this design may supercede Beuhler's Olga as my next boat. Are any of you guys familiar with the design?

-Thad

[Moose]

I believe the design that you're talking about is available as plans from DN Goodchild. It was a reprint from the Rudder.

[TomF]

Got a copy of that Goodchild reprint. It is a lovely looking boat.

IIRC, the main boom overhangs the stern by some distance. Very pretty, but it did make me wonder about whether I'd be competent to reef it ... footropes on the boom don't sound too appealing to me.

[Thad Van Gilder]

I looked on the goodchild website and couldn't find it.

She looks really Yarr!

gaff schooner...

only draws 6 feet...

dedicated stand up engine room...

she looks good!!!!!!

-Thad

[Charles Burgess]

Got a copy of that Goodchild reprint. It is a lovely looking boat.

IIRC, the main boom overhangs the stern by some distance. Very pretty, but it did make me wonder about whether I'd be competent to reef it ... footropes on the boom don't sound too appealing to me.

The joy of a relatively small schooner (anything under 60ft LOA) is being able to sail it single handedly. But if the main boom overhands the stern, that makes things a rather hoary monkey out of the lone-skipper...if he's swinging out on a limb, who's on deck to throw him a line when, not if, he goes for an unannounced swim? I design all my small schooners with no overhanging booms over the stern...I prefer to send the sail area aloft to catch more wind up there.

[htom]

Tornado, not Typhoon. "capable of being handled by two good men"

http://www.dngoodchild.com/5455.htm

[Northernguy59]

any photos kicking around anywhere??

[sawcutmill]

One of my ALL time Favorites....stephen

[johngsandusky]

My thought about reefing an overhanging boom is to leave pendants rove off at the leach to belay further forward on the boom. Tie off the reef points only as far as you can safely reach. With modern sailcloth this ought to be ok. If you build a schooner, I'll crew. I'm agreeable, have gaff experience, only a couple of hours away, and I'll provide beer ashore.

[Thad Van Gilder]

Ok, I checked, It is Tornado...

I scaled off the drawing last night, the boom overhangs by about 5 feet, which Is not too bad, If you figure the reefing lines are about 2 and 3 feet in from that... I think you can go 2 feet or so with out reefing pendends around the boom.

That's not too bad.

I have been gathering materials for the Bughler Olga, re rigged as a gaff schooner... But I think this one wins!!!

I am starting to cast hardware now... Hoping to cut the backbone timbers and planking this summer with a borrowed sawmill.

-Thad

[Torna]

Just for fun I ordered a copy of Tornado from D.N. And in my fantasy world I'd like to buy your moulds when you're done with them.

-leif

[Thad Van Gilder]

Well, I'm more comfortable making double sawn frames, with bent frames in between, so that's more than likely what I'll do.

Sorry, no moulds.

I might try to contact mystic seaport and see if they have the full building plans, though... They have the Hand collection.

-Thad

[Lucky Luke]

I design all my small schooners with no overhanging booms over the stern...I prefer to send the sail area aloft to catch more wind up there.

Charles: where could we see some of your designs? There is nothing on you (lovely) website...???? From previous places you worked in, perhaps?