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Course this stern was never very popular until immortalized in the Pink Floyd song, "Have a Cigar".........

Length and weight (displacement) are by far the most important factors. Narrower boats are smaller and have less "stuff" in them, thus they are lighter than fat boats and more efficient. Narrower...

As mentioned by RevWhop above, I had this problem and it was an invisible crack in the fuel pump bellows where it seats against the crankcase. A new bellows would be $2.00, but you can't buy one...

Romance is a newish built Garden design, based on the Island Raven design I believe, about 36' overall I think. Very shiny.......

http://tadroberts.ca/pics/Maplebay05.jpg

Herself, an older...

Saturday was a typical grey day on the wet coast....excuse the dark pictures. I was there early before the crowds to get clear pictures, only a few souls about with coffee cups in hand. Very...

It starts today.....

http://maplebaymarina.com/events

I'll go tomorrow and perhaps get some pictures if it's not raining too hard......;)

Patrick,

There are a couple of further pictures of Mist in WoodenBoat #60, at least they are in colour but from far away, also a small interior picture. It's in a Garden piece called Toad's...

We did it here but the boats weren't "un-attended". They were in sight of my office. A Wayfarer and a 19' Bartender, the Bartender tied to the mooring and the wayfarer tied to the Bartender with 4...

Oh come now Jim......This is not a marina cruiser, she'll be up a creek or out on the drying mudflats where no one else can go. That is the beauty (and reason for all the added complication) of a...

Patrick,

There is an article on Mist in WoodenBoat #35 (July/August 1980). It includes some drawings, a picture of the boat sailing, extensive designer comments, and a short piece on sailing the...

Gareth if you read "Rod Stephens, His Book" (available for free download on the S&S site) the last chapter concerns the DUKW's. Frankly the writing is almost indecipherable (un-edited) but it might...

First off huge props to the dude for actually building the thing. (I'm guessing the designer is also the builder?)

Short fat boats are, it seems, endlessly fascinating. But we need to realize...

In a chop the vee-bottom should certainly run nicer and handle better than a flat bottomed boat. 200 pounds for a 15' (?) boat hull seems unlikely, I would figure about 325-350 but much depends on...

I don't what the Dickinson costs but Roger Lehet's Kimberly is a nice looking option........

http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2011/01/created-in-desperation-boat-stove-becomes-business-venture/

"15 kids, 9 dogs, and a raptor rehabilitation license" This guy is so awesome.......

Same boat as post #33

It depends.....|;).......There I said it....

Any hull is a collection of features aimed at a certain result. Some forms are faster at higher trim angles and those higher trim angles are at least...

Proximity of the bottom changes the resistance (pressure) of every hull. Only very high-speed hulls are not affected. You could be seeing a big change in trim as well as other factors. As you say,...

Here in BC an outfit called FishSafe https://www.fishsafebc.com/index.php?id=15 has made huge strides in training fishermen in at least the basics of stability, among other dangers they live with...

The design is by Gilmer and was originally called Calypso (1945). The flush-decked version above was created in 1974 and built by Roy Blaney in Boothbay. She's 35'9" on deck, 31'3" LWL and 11' beam...

In general I'll agree with your thread title....but......She's a nice little boat lacking in detail that would make her useful. Getting the engine aft under the deck and out of the cabin is a...

Ignorance piled on ignorance, neither the PR people at the NW School or the Broker know depth from draft ......Look at the drawing by Mr. Hanson in the Yachtworld ad. Scale the draft against the...

Just remember that what to you is an "ugly boat", is another sailors pride and joy.......what a dull world it would be if everyone built and sailed the same white triangular sloop.

Chippewa appears in the first book, Small Boats, which I gather is a bit rare now. She has an unusual hard chine hull, the chine starts at the stem head forward and drops to just above waterline...

That's okay if you are comfortable with a $300 fuel bill for an afternoon's outing. At 18 knots (barely on plane) she will burn 27gph, wide open (25+ knots) those 454's will slurp 48gph!

One can only wonder at "seal services" ???

My mother had one of those 59 Chev's, a four door, she paid a high-school kid $100 for it. It had a lot of miss-matched body parts (which turned out...

Slow down and take a breath.......do not buy the first boat you look at.....it will still be for sale a month or a year from now, and the asking price will be lower. This is the worst time of year...

Well the owner of Burma spends $50k a year to keep her looking that way. With your budget you will be looking at older production or semi-production boats, Chris Craft, perhaps Pacemaker, Egg...

The words "express" and "sport fisher" imply power and speed. Then the question becomes "How fast?" Which feeds into the main question, What's the budget? "Not a Clue", well you can spend a few...

Exactly......By the original post all multihulls may be judged unseaworthy because they cannot recover from a 90 degree knockdown.....

I would suggest anyone seriously interested in this subject read Reuel Parker's article in Professional Boatbuilder #139 (Oct/Nov 2012), "A Studied Lack of Depth". He examines 8 shoal draft hulls...

More anchors = more sleep for me.......of course we do not leave the boat. I can count on one hand the number of times we've had three out in the past 5-6 years.

Yep, the Northill must be lifted and dis-entangled occasionally (in our case usually every few months)....ours is big enough that even tangled it holds okay. But that's also the reason for further...

Our primary is a 50kg Northill on chain. The secondary is a 30kg Lewmar copy of a Bruce, set on all rope in a mud bottom. The copy is an excellent anchor in my opinion, it has never dragged and...

HA!....LOL.....I finally pulled up google earth and checked this out......Well Auckland - Wellington - Whatever....of course I just mixed up where certain cities are!

The current google pic of...

March 1972 Sail Magazine

I've never seen the boat or sailed her, so I know nothing. But Phil B., Susanne, and Dan Segal wrote about her in WoodenBoat #157.

I admire the rig in general, the simplicity is appealing. Her...

It's an involved story (aren't they all) but they really did not intend to be there at all.......as outlined by Cedric Allan in Sail.

On passage from Brisbane to Auckland, to take part in...

Why yes, yes I do, thank you for asking...|;)

This is Big Saturnina, called big as she's a larger version of a previous smaller design. To be built of strip cedar over laminated Mahogany frames. ...

In 1939 William Garden designed and built Gleam for himself. Believe it or not she was originally a centerboarder with spoon bow, short counter, and gaff main with fidded topmast (I have that...

Peter Van Dine designed (and subsequently built and sold) a pair of schooner rigged Tancook Whaler's starting in 1972-73. They were offered at 25'6" LOA or 35'4". The picture below is of the...

In 1962 Ted Brewer designed Ingenue, a 32' racing schooner for L.A. Wheeler. She was Ted's second custom sailboat design. She had quite a racing career; second in the 66 Chicago-Mackinac (of a 93...

Al Mason's take on the small schooner....The Mason 31', essentially a Mason 30 (Venture class) with counter stern. She's 31' LOA, 22'11" LWL, beam is 9'4", draft 4'8", displacement 10,400 pounds,...

The video and pictures posted by Stevetom are great, thanks for that. Some wacky line handling there......What I really wonder about though is who designed her, who built her, and why?

With a 23' waterline.......|;)

I don't think so. Beaglehole (The Life of Captain James Cook) describes 10 very trying days of tacking north from the Bay of Islands to North Cape, inshore during the day to chart the land, and...

Hawk is about the smallest well designed schooner I can think of....... Today we'd throw out the big diesel, re-arrange the ballast a bit and put two batteries under the seats just forward of the...

Better off than what? ;) I think statements about how schooners don't work under a certain size are rubbish. Yes, of course there are badly designed schooners of all sizes that can't sail out of...

First it's Shaine Manufacturing Company, Lake Union, Seattle. Morris G. Shaine was company owner and master builder. Edwin Monk Sr. may have had something to do with the design but the Shaine's...

Except that there is one to many guys on deck, that picture reminds me strongly of Conrad's last book, The Rover (1923). A highly underrated work.