Brayprints

[Breeeze]

Something to savor:

Kathy Bray just re-designed her website, one of the prettiest sites around. Her work is gorgeous. Amazing, how she consistently produces prints of not only beutiful artistic quality but also of great authenticity. It's obvious that a lot of research and work went into the prints.

http://www.brayprints.com/

Check it out, She even has a print of the Coquina I'm building and so wonderfully captures the spirit of the boat.

Enjoy!
Breeze

http://web.mac.com/w123.153/Breeze/

[StevenBauer]

I've got her print of the Ostkust hanging right over my shoulder as I type. :)



Steven

[rbgarr]

The Wianno Senior and Beetle cat flank my clothes bureau and I suspect the Boothbay Harbor One Design poster will be on the mantle above my stocking Christmas morn (crossed fingers!)

What's this about an NGH Buzzards Bay 18?? The design is a new one on me and lustworthy:
http://i38.tinypic.com/zkk3yb.gif



I also loved reading this on the website:

Changing colors (for sails as well as hulls), adding sail numbers & insignias, making rig altercations, and changing text for custom captions, are all part of this personalization process.

That would be worth the money for customizing right there! Mainmasts batting mizzens about the spreaders, jibs flaying mainsails, running rigging strangling booms....:D

[Mad Scientist]

Altercations? This is a common problem in the Spellcheck era. We need a Context Checker. For example, I was on a computer course where an exercise instruction told us to '...open Windows Exploder...'Typos happen...

Then there was a university bookstore website that promised 'topknotch service'. I guess they measure their service speed in knots.

Tom

[rbgarr]

Yup, exploder. Saw an ad in the local weekly swapsheet for a 1995 Ford Exploder. That was during the period when they were having tire problems too.

[CWSmith]

I could spend my whole retirement trying to build half hulls just half as lovely as her prints - and fail.

[SNagy]

Dave: The Buzzards Bay 18 is essentially a larger BB15, with an LOA of 29 feet. HMC built 5 of them for 1904, where they raced at the Beverly Yacht club. Go to http://herreshoff.orrsford.com. Select Search in the Database dropdown menu. Then select Buzzards Bay 18 from the Class dropdown menu and click Search.

-Steve

[rbgarr]

Are any still afloat/around? I'd love to see a photo of one. It looks like they may have had a cuddy from the Bray drawing.

[Clinton B Chase]

This is the first time I've been able to see the faering from the small boat paged enlarged.

Do you know what design this is or where she took the drawing from. A set of plans, lines or offsets!? I want it :)

Clint

[SNagy]

Dave: Unfortunately we have not been able to locate any of them, and I have not seen any pictures. I think you are right about the cuddy, though. In the 1900 Beverly Yacht Club yearbook, the section on 18-footers says the following: "A boat of this class is intended to be a sea-worthy boat with cabin-house and fair accommodations" and "The cabin-house shall have a length of at lest six feet and a width equal to 60 per cent. of the greatest beam on deck".

-Steve

[rbgarr]

Was the Beverly Yacht Club ever actually in the town of Beverly (on Massachusetts' North Shore) or has it always been where it is now?

[SNagy]

From Judith Rosbe:

"The Beverly Yacht Club, one of the oldest yacht clubs in America, was founded in 1872 by young men who summered in Beverly. They were upset that the newly formed Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead refused to recognize yachts under 30 feet in length on the waterline for the races that they held. Thus, Edward and Walter Burgess (the famous yacht designer), at a supper party at their home

in Boston on February 24, 1872, formally launched the Beverly Yacht Club. The first regatta was held by the club on June 22, 1872, in which 11 boats, 10 catboats, and a sloop started in three classes. For the first 23 years, the Beverly Yacht Club had no fixed abode; they held races and regattas at ports most convenient to the members. By the mid-1880s, regattas were held in Monument Beach and Marblehead, but as the Buzzards Bay membership increased, the Beverly Yacht Club leased its first clubhouse on Wings Neck in 1895. In 1913, the club moved to Marion, where it has been located ever since."

[rbgarr]

AFAIK Wing's Neck is in the roughest part of Buzzards Bay so I can imagine a 30 foot version of the BB15 would be just the thing. http://tinyurl.com/6ysk8g

[Oldsalt]

AFAIK Wing's Neck is in the roughest part of Buzzards Bay so I can imagine a 30 foot version of the BB15 would be just the thing. http://tinyurl.com/6ysk8g


Rbgarr these boats were commissioned roughly 10 years before the canal opened when the area was more of a pastural basin. My guess is the currents likely became much stronger after 1914.


Thanks for the heads up on the Bray Prints, they'll make some great last minute holiday gifts!

[rbgarr]

If by 'pastural basin' (pastoral?) you mean that it was a calm place to sail before the Canal was built, that's a surprise to me.

It's not the currents at that end of Buzzards Bay so much as the shallowing there and fetch of the southwesterlies building up in that narrowest part of the bay. Sailing into Pocasset between Southwest Ledge and Scraggy Neck (well out of the Canal channels) surprised me with it's roughness because I was used to the south shore of Cape Cod where it was even shallower and had about as much fetch from the SW and perhaps even more current. Then racing there in 24 foot sailboats (not unlike a BB15 at almost 26 feet) was very challenging, wet and hard on the boats. I can't think how a thirty foot version of the same hull (NGH's BB18) wouldn't have been preferable.

The outflow of the Canal into that wind can result in some pretty square waves of its own, but that only makes for an additional and separate hazard.

My experience only.

[Nick Bray]

Kathy recently made some custom changes to her Ostkust print for us. Changes to the cabin and colour scheme; now we have a superb print of our Eureka.
Nick

[Clinton B Chase]

If any one know about the specifics of the Faering she has printed let me know.

Thanks,
Clint

[Ben Fuller]

Clint,

Email Kathy; looks like a oselver possibly worked up from the material published by Lance Lee years ago. We are in discussions about adding some things to her list.

[keyhavenpotterer]

Clint,

I think it may well be Iain Oughtreds faering. If you take a look at the drawings on page 2 of this pdf, it does look very similar. This available drawing might be the the one used.

http://jordanboats.co.uk/JB/IainO_Catalogue/Elf%20&%20Elfyn.pdf

I was very lucky to sail one of these in September at our UK home boat builders get together. Lovely, almost dish like sailing in her, quite surprised how wide she seemed. Must have been the angles of the side planks.
http://ukhbbr.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/07-09-08-031.jpg


The owner builder had been struggling to tack her, but was sitting well back in the boat. With two on board she tacked ok. So he straight way decided to try to get used to using his unused long Norwegian tiller so he could sit further forward.

I took her out on my own. Wanted to try tensioning the sprit line. Luffed and moved forward to try and she tacked all on her own. No helm used at all. In half an hour she went from not tacking to tacking on her own. Always something to learn.

Here is Iain rowing his own faering
http://k53.pbase.com/o2/53/578453/1/97776434.1NxkzRpV.Mairead7.jpg


Brian

[gert]

We are in discussions about adding some things to her list

I hope, or might I suggest: Joel White's Shearwater and Iain Oughtred's Grey Seal :) (just a little partial)

[rbgarr]

Clint,

Email Kathy; looks like a oselver possibly worked up from the material published by Lance Lee years ago. We are in discussions about adding some things to her list.

I understand she may not have had many orders for the Boothbay series poster but I'd vote for other classes of racing types that have been built of wood and that other material and show them as a separate category(?): IOD, Luders 16 and 24, North Haven Dinghy, Cotuit skiff, Lightning, Finn, Flying Dutchman, the Scows, 505, Fireball, Y-Flyer, Sea Island One-Design... and other Mid , North and West Coast classes I'm forgetting.

Good luck, whatever. It's nice to see updated websites and blogs.

[Nels]

I grew up on that part of Buzzards Bay, Pocasset, and have sailed a lot around Wings Neck and Monument Beach. IT IS very rough especially in the later afternoon after the SW wind has been driving waves up the bay into increasingly shallow water. When the waves get to Wings Neck, they really get big. I've been scared out there, and knocked down, more than once! It can get pretty exciting. The current, surely influenced by the canal, just adds one more factor. When the tide is going out hard in the late afternoon and the SW wind has been piling the waves up the bay, you'd better be careful. (I usually stay in the lee of Wings Neck when it gets like that.) At sundown the wind settles down to nothing while the sun slowly slips below the horizon.

[Clinton B Chase]

Ben, I'm getting the faering itch again, a "real faering" itch. Will email Kathy.

Do tell about the adding to the list!

Clint