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Thanks, Jay! Able sure is a beautiful boat.

Here's another one seen the same day, out in the sail-by at last year's PT Fest. Anybody know this schooner?
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OK, let's try another one I saw at Port Townsend last September. Apparently this is a Lyle Hess cutter:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8469/8367957000_744e126c34_o.jpg

Thanks for the help some folks here gave me identifying some of the boats I took photos of at last year's Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Maybe I can get some help with some more boat...

Thanks, Alex. And thanks to everyone else who has helped identify some of the boats in my photos. Lucky Star was designed by Edson Schock and launched in 1937.
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Yeah, they broke the mold after they made Lee. Or maybe he broke the mold when they made him. :) When I see him at PT he's always talking about "David" this and "David" that, and sometimes I think...

California TSCAer Lee Caldwell

I'm finally getting some of my photos from the 2012 Port Townsend Festival online:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkohnen/collections/72157632445402509/

Help identifying boats would be...

"... never believe Andrew Linn about his austere diet of hard tack and pease porridge." I've had my doubts about that Cliff bar diet myself, suspecting that Andrew packs nothing but Cliff Bars, but...

The nearest boat is Lynn Watson's Katie Mae. She was built sorta to the Drascombe Peterboat design, but considerably modified.

http://www.woodenboat.org/boats/Boat_Detail.aspx?processID=140

Tyke's an Eric, Jr.

http://www.boat-links.com/Atkinco/Sail/EricJr.html

The bomber is still there. There's a pretty decent restaurant behind it, and a small military museum. Worth a visit if you're in the area. The B-17 is partly stripped now, but she's slowly being...

Hey! Wait a minute, those first three pix of the junk-rigged dory were taken by me! The boat was at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival some years ago. Then it was hauled out and for sale for a...

John Atkin adapted Lark to plywood construction and named the result Katelyn. Not as pretty as the lapstrake version, but better for living on a trailer.

John

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The Atkins designed Little Scout for groups of beginning sailors, not single-handers. The gaff rig was chosen over simpler rigs to give the kids more things to play with, there always being plenty of...

I make a point to NOT drive anywhere near Lincoln City if I can help it. :D The blight of Lincoln City is creeping towards Depoe Bay, but it's still several miles north. If you come from the south...

Winchester Bay is just inside the mouth of the Umpqua River. There's a bar between there and the ocean. Griff's changed hands recently, but the last time I was there the fish was still the best...

There's one 83-footer still afloat and close to its original configuration. Here are some links to it:

http://tinyurl.com/bqnqg

John

Yes Indeed! The new printed catalog will replace the old blue one and will be available through Mrs. Atkin after the Festival. I couldn't bear the thought of sitting in the booth and trying not to...

Mrs. Atkin and I are getting excited about the Festival next week. smile.gif I'm driving up Wednesday and Mrs. A is flying out the same day. We're going to have several drawings on display, lots of...

Lincoln City? The "twenty miserable miles"? Lincoln City isn't actually twenty miles long, it just seems like it. :D Lincoln City is fine if you like traffic. The beach there isn't bad, but every...

Here are some more shots of the Ice Cream people's Little Moby (yes, I took some photos of Bartenders too, Bill ;) ):

http://www.boat-links.com/images/Moby/LittleMoby-C.jpg

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That's a beauty! Ninigret is a very nice boat, one of my favorites, but Mrs. Atkin says John thought it was a difficult boat to build. Doesn't look that tricky to me. <shrug> Maybe it's the details...

We were thinking of it, but never got around to making the arrangements. WB had been talking about having this year's show in Vermont or Upstate New York, which sounded nice. But then decide to do it...

I received the following query. Mrs. Atkin doesn't know anything about the connection, do any of you?

"Pat Atkin directed me to the colllection of Atkin articles you maintain. I had inquired...

John Guzzwell may have owned a boat named Treasure, but his famous boat (the little one he sailed 'round the world) was named Trekka.

I think my favorite Shute book is 'Round the Bend. It's about...

Mine is about a '95, I think. Thieves like Honda engines. Occasionally I've thought about painting mine red and putting the letters "YUGO" on each side of the cowl. That might give the crooks pause. ...

Mine is about a '95, I think. Thieves like Honda engines. Occasionally I've thought about painting mine red and putting the letters "YUGO" on each side of the cowl. That might give the crooks pause. ...

Mine is about a '95, I think. Thieves like Honda engines. Occasionally I've thought about painting mine red and putting the letters "YUGO" on each side of the cowl. That might give the crooks pause. ...

The trouble is that you converted from a JPEG, which was already a corrupted image. Use AutoCAD to convert to BMP or PNG, then use Photoshop to convert that to GIF. You can use Photoshop to reduce...

To Illustrate the point:

http://www.boat-links.com/images/GIFdemo.gif

A 16-color GIF from a CAD file. About 11Kb. Looks good, right?

http://www.boat-links.com/images/JPEGdemo.jpg

A...

I'm confused. What's with using JPEG for images that would be better saved in another format? Try using GIF, and if file size is important reduce the number of colors to 16. I've had good luck using...

One of Ray Heater's rapid Roberts:

http://www.boat-links.com/DepoeBay/04/RR-03.jpg

John

I agree completely -- except there's an exception. The drift boats designed by Tom Kaarhus of Eugene are good in whitewater and also good motorboats. It's sometimes called the "Rapid Robert". There's...

What makes the difference between a high-peaked gaff and a gunter is that the upper spar of the gunter rig is called a "yard." tongue.gif

John

Real marine engines, and truck or industrial engines set up like real marine engines, have the flywheel forward so they can be set lower in the boat. The engine tips down towards the stern, so the...

GIF is a much better format to use for line art. JPEG hates those vast expanses of white and goes rogue...

John

http://www.boat-links.com/Sucia/Feather-08.jpg

Not a very good photo, but doesn't she look piratical? Isn't that reason enough for a raked mast? :D

John

Yeah, the rubber dinghy really spoils the effect! :( If they had the money to build a ship like Lynx why couldn't they find a bit more to build a tender to match? <harumph> At any rate, they...

The lines were published in H. I. Chapelle's "American Small Sailing Craft" and plans are available cheap from the Smithsonian Institution.

John

Oops! Wrong one! Try this:

http://www.boat-links.com/PT/PT2003/LynxRigging-02.jpg

http://www.boat-links.com/PT/PT2003/Lynx-02.jpg

Here's one that I've taken a fancy to. It can be built to travel on a trailer, sails, and will do 14.5 mph with a Universal Fisherman (if you can find such a beast) or 20 mph with an Atomic Four:
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http://www.boat-links.com/images/Whelp-1.jpg

Speaking of schooners named "Lion's Whelp", does anyone here know anyhting about the 1929 Lion's Whelp built by Hodgdon Brothers at East Boothbay, ...

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wilson Fitt:
[QB]Here are some dory pics I took in St. Pierre in July 2004:

What are they using for engines in the dories at St. Pierre nowadays?

John

Here's a poor photo of a Seagoer yawl like Harry Pidgeon's -- Noë Mar -- taken at Port Townsend in September.

http://www.boat-links.com/images/NoeMar.jpg

And there's a good picture of Harry...

A friend of mine has a big wooden halibut schooner, the Decorah, that was the subject of a similar photo back in 1931, when she was 20 years old. They got her off the rock, patched her up and she's...

A friend of mine has a big wooden halibut schooner, the Decorah, that was the subject of a similar photo back in 1931, when she was 20 years old. They got her off the rock, patched her up and she's...

A friend of mine has a big wooden halibut schooner, the Decorah, that was the subject of a similar photo back in 1931, when she was 20 years old. They got her off the rock, patched her up and she's...

Most of the pictures were taken at a friend's trailer in Irondale, right next to Port Hadlock. An area sorta like River Road. Pretty nice actually. The last was taken at another friend's place off...

Thanks everyone! I've got copies of the articles now. :D Look for Jogalong in the online catlog soon.