Small Boats back cover

[Longbow]

Just wondered if anybody knows what the boat featured in the West Systems epoxy ad on the rear cover on the new edition of Small Boats is.

[WI-Tom]

I wondered, too; is that Ian Oughtred's Haiku sharpie, by any chance? Just a guess.

Tom

[JimConlin]

I called Gougeons with the same question.
The boat was designed and built by their tech. support guru, J.R. Watson.

[Ben Fuller]

This boat is an Egret built by Geoff Kerr, Two Daughters Boatworks. There are some pictures of it on the WoodenBoat show wet site.

[StevenBauer]

I would say not the Haiku, but rather a ply version of the Munroe Egret.

According to Iain Oughtred Haiku is a plywood version of the Munroe Egret.

I had thought it was the Kerr Egret, too.


Steven

[Steve Paskey]

I couldn't find the pictures, but I did find this:

A reverent interpretation of Commodore R.M. Monroe's legendary 19th century sharpie ketch. While aethetically as true to the original as possible, this Egret is of modern epoxy and plywood construction, with a few 21st century twists.

[Clinton B Chase]

I would say not the Haiku, but rather a ply version of the Munroe Egret. The big difference is that the Egret is a cat/ketch and the Haiku is a cat/yawl.

Haiku below.



Edited to add: Well, not the Egret either. Sure looks like it.

Boats don't get much prettier than this....

[JimConlin]

This boat is an Egret built by Geoff Kerr, Two Daughters Boatworks. There are some pictures of it on the WoodenBoat show wet site.

I'm confused. This says otherwise.

[StevenBauer]

So from Jim's link:


Lady B., launched August 20th in the Saginaw River behind Gougeon Brothers, Inc., is my sailing sharpie. She is based on H.I. Chapelle's "Dandy" design as described in the series "The American Sharpie Yacht" published in Boats magazine back in August, 1956.
I've been boating all my life, and early on was enchanted with the sharpie; I've kept that issue of Boats magazine all these years. For decades, while building other boats, the sharpie concept simmered on the back burner. Lady B. is an evolution of Dandy, justifiable I say, despite critics who felt I should adhere to convention and existing design, because the sharpie was fostered through change.
David W. Carnell, who urged me to evolve the design, assisted me with drawings and offsets of "HIC-116 Dandy" via the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of History DOT. Chapelle suggested modernizing the sharpie from work boat to yacht. Chapelle wrote, "...I got out my notes I had made of my discussions with R.M. Munroe", the Commodore himself, "I had obtained his ideas for the possible improvements he would have made and supplemented these with notes on the sharpies of this type I had designed and sailed. As a result of a study of these -and examination of the model lines, the following alterations were made..." This is what was drawn in the article The American Sharpie Yacht and detailed in the prints HIC-116 Dandy.
Thus Lady B. was built, in about 1100 hours.
Lady B takes the HIC-116 Dandy a step further in modernizing:

• West System® epoxy composite construction
• Polyurethane paint
• Stainless steel fittings
• Rounded composite chines
• NACA foil-shaped rudder and ballasted dagger board both .0012 sections).
• Carbon fiber, plywood, balsa core composite cabin roof
• Self-bailing cockpit
• Vertical penetrating outboard motor in well with fairings.
• Filament wound, carbon fiber masts
• Dacron sails
• Demountable tabernacle mast stepping system

Lady B's Particulars LOA 28 LWL 26 Beam 7'6" Draft <1' SA 290 Disp 2500 Aux 9.9 four-stroke outboard in well

[Hwyl]

Thanks Jim, it's a nice boat. I'd like to see particulars of the

Vertical penetrating outboard motor in well with fairings.

[JimConlin]

Perhaps i'm inventing things, but i recollect an Epoxyworks article describing either a rudder or an outboard in a large 'turret' with marble-sized ball bearings for a boat like this. Can anyone verify this or have I gone 'round the bend?

[Mike V.]

I remember reading 2 articles by J.R. Watson describing his build of this boat. He did build a very fancy rudder assembly, it consisted of a large drum that the dagger-type rudder was raised and lowered through. The drum rotated on torlon ball bearings. I remember the articles from about 7 or 8 years ago.

Here are 2 articles in Epoxyworks regarding this boat:

http://www.epoxyworks.com/15/index15.html - see "Building a Wood/Epoxy Sharpie"

http://www.epoxyworks.com/18/index18.html - see "Building a Wood/Epoxy Sharpie - Phase II"