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http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/boa/3306430679.html

Here is a rare one that I have seen folks say good things about here.

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/boa/3328330526.html

There is Bolger's Spartina:

http://blip.tv/keepturningleft/ktl-066-scrap-bolger-spartina-5961882

Thanks for the pics. I'm partial to the crab skiffs. I take it these are boats built along Chapelle's lines in his article on Chesapeake skiff types?

I cannot speak to the bowsprit, but I have had my eye on the Hampton Flattie for years. There is something about its sheer and profile that look just right to me. I do not get the same sense by...

That looks like easy living! I wish we had that kind of "dismal" in winter here.

Johnno, I have a Core Sound 15. The main is 60 sq ft and the mizzen is 45 sq ft. I have no pictures of the rigging of my boat, but the link here takes you to a website of a nicely built Core Sound...

Johnno, nice clip.

One of the reasons you may not be tacking so well is the set of your main. A little more sweat on the halyard and a little more sweat on the tack downhaul will straighten out...

Cook's Navigating Officer?! I read some of Cook's Journals over the spring and saw no reference to him. Knowing that would have increased my pleasure in reading them. Did he navigate on all the...

I think that is a Mackinaw boat.

One listed for sale here: http://www.greatwoodboats.com/usedboats/18mackinaw/index.html

I sail a similar configuration. It is rather easy to loosen the snotter, pull the sprit forward, unship the sprit from the clew and quickly attach it at the reefing clew and haul in on the snotter to...

Johnno, you got back alive, but what about a report about her handling despite the slipped clew, baggy sail and all. Sheesh! You're killing me here!!!!! I love the pic, btw. She looks good. I'd say...

KHP, Doryman's blog has quite a bit about his Valgerda. A couple of changes I can think of are 1) 100 sq ft balanced lugsail rather than the 72 sq ft standing lug. 2) I think that Doryman added a jib...

Out of all of Welsford's boats, Houdini captures my imagination like no other. You have done a fine job, Bill, and she looks beautiful. Keep the pics coming when you can. I appreciate your taking the...

Richard, IMO means "in my opinion."

Richard, the boat is Tom Dunderdale's IO 11-12. He does business at Campion Sail and Design. Here is the link: http://www.campionboats.co.uk/io_11_12.html

http://dory-man.blogspot.com/2009/07/iain-oughtreds-tammie-norrie.html

I helped build a stretched version of TN a couple of years ago. She was built for a very large man and I could not understand...

She's beautiful, Johnno! Congrats to you and Huzzah's to Ross for designing such a fetching boat.

You can find Ross here: http://www.baysidewoodenboats.com.au/

Little Egret looks very nice and John has done a fine job in building her. I am keen to see her on the water as I have been thinking...

I prophesy a fatwa on her head soon.

"Professor John Boswell was no secularist. He was a devout Roman Catholic who participated in the Mass daily.

Just saying...."


Reading Comprehension Alert: SamF's reference was not to...

Boswell was a homosexual who died of AIDS related illness in 1994. Could it be that he engaged in a little advocacy research? Probably, since the "facts" that he has unearthed have not held up under...

Tom Dunderdale, at Campion Sail and Design, specifies a halyard lock on his lugsail dinghies. I built the prototype IO, which flies a 75 sq ft lugsail. The "halyard lock" is clam cleat offset...

Look! A war on Woodies! Where is the outrage, men?

I think I've missed something here. Has he mentioned the design his is building? Is he building because his 'pod can't keep up with Rowan?

Mike Roberts' "Headland Boats" Green Island 15 comes close. Unfortunately, I don't think he sells plans anymore.

Gartside has a 16x7'3 gaff sloop called "Basher." It is strip planked. Look here:
http://store.gartsideboats.com/collections/sailboats/products/16-ft-centreboard-sloop-161

It was written up in a...

Whew!

It's not looking good for the Tigers.

Go Tigers!

Rats! Looks like the Tigers will have come back from a 2 game deficit. Where's my lucky rabbit's foot?

Peerie,

Certainly, Dawkins is part of a scientific community. Not all in the Scientific community buy all that Dawkins sells -- the late Stephen J. Gould, for one. I don't know whether Dawkins is...

Apologies for the run on words. My word processing program does not cut and paste well into the WBF format, apparently. Now the editing function on the forum is not working correctly and after...

Peerie,

I guess I can say that Dawkins isconfused because his "stature" does not ensureinfallibility. Moreover, Dawkins is famous for conflating philosophywith science and to do this is to engage...

Well, as a KC, MO ex-pat, I'm going to have to root for the Cardinals in the NL -- home state allegiance and all that. However, as a current resident of Michigan, I am rooting for the Tigers to...

Peerie,

I would like to point out that I am not the author of the machine analogy, Dawkins is. As far as I can tell, you need to take your beef to him. My misunderstanding is not "eccentric in the...

Tell that to Dawkins.

Peerie, I think Dawkin's is confused. A machine cannot act in any way other than according to its program. If we are gene machines "cultured" by environment and society to be meme machines, then...

Even Dawkins doesn't seem to like memes. He doesn't seem to agree with himself either. Look at this quote from The Selfish Gene:

"We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if...

Eric, as you know, James is famous for touting the marvels of Rowan. My comment was a friendly dig. I've not heard much about the Wherry's and would be interested in hearing more about how they sail...

Skaraborgcraft,

I read that somewhere recently while investigating the Blekingseka. I will try to hunt down the reference to it. Unfortunately, I did not save it.

My understanding is that the Folkboat was an enlarged version of the Blekingseka. They are pretty boats, but they are a bit too large for my circumstances.

Here is a Blekingseka sailing at the beginning of this video. I'd say the winds are in the 12-15 knot range and she looks like she is trucking along quite well. Note the lack of wake. It is almost as...

The small double ender is a MacGregor canoe. I was amazed at how fast that boat went. I was also surprised by the speed of the Elf faering at the beginning of the video. It took awhile for the other...

Summer's Ease


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWqcp4v78U8&feature=player_embedded

Thanks again for the comments. Bruce, nice rendering!

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?11413-Question-for-J.-Dillon-Skipper-of-quot-Carrianne-quot&highlight=Carrianne

Thanks, rbgarr!

Skaraborgkraft and Aldebaran, thanks for the replies.

Yes, I agree that the turn of the strakes could be problematic. The boat reminds me in some ways of a Jersey Skiff or a Wherry. Its lack of a...

I am interested in this boat type. I know that at least one person has built one in the US and there is a thread about it in the Building section of the forum. I would be interested in hearing what...