Help me identify this design?

[MountainMan]

I know you chaps are the ones to ask when it comes to figuring out boat designs by eye. This little skiff recently followed me home, but nobody has any information on who built it, nor where it came from. Was left on a property a friend recently bought.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/4375319...7625382130044/

[Thorne]

Can't help with the ID, but it looks like a real find. That wide daggerboard is unique in my experience. Post the measurements to give us more help.

[MountainMan]

13' 9" stem to stern. Beam is just shy of 46". Has an 18ft mast, polytarp sail and a removable keel with a steel plate screwed to the side.

[wizbang 13]

That is a well evolved boat. The old fir ply looks 100% sound. Rigging details are slick. A real find indeed!

[MountainMan]

Also, it was found near Pittsburgh, and built of lumberyard stock, nothing too fancy.

[MountainMan]

what would you call the type? nothing more than a nice little skiff?

[David G]

M'Man,

Sure enough - you've found yourself a genuine NLS (Nice Little Skiff). I'd imagine the odds of someone coming along and actually identifying the builder, design, date of build, etc. is pretty slim. Congrats!

[Thorne]

You'll want to rotate that last photo, but the sail looks like expensive Tanbark-color Dacron to me. More photos will help.

Is that daggerboard slot the same width on the bottom as it is on the top? Strange - looks too long to be a daggerboard slot but too short to be a centerboard...

[Lewisboater]

looks like the DB is reversible... perhaps for 2 different rigs or for the same rig without a jib mounted. Nice find...if the wood is solid

[wizbang 13]

"kick -up" daggerboard I would guess."breakaway" like a barstool in a hollywood barfight.
Sail DO look dacron. Is it lug, sprit or that nasty,wrinkled gunter thingee?
NLFS (nice little flatiron skiff)?

[botebum]

... NLFS (nice little flatiron skiff)?

+1

I'm curious- Is it as heavy as it looks?

Doug

[Chip-skiff]

Looks like a gunter rig and there's a sailmaker's mark near the tack.

Nice lines. Looks like you need to invest in a heat gun, scrapers, and that sort of thing.

[Ross Lillistone]

The boat is a Bluegill designed by Steve Redmond. I have built one for a customer, and I have the plans and instructions.

Check the measurements, as I think Bluegill is longer than you quoted, but I've got lots of photos of the one I made, and you will see she is the same design for sure.

Ross Lillistone

[Ross Lillistone]

Further to my recent post, here is a link to an album of photos of the Bluegill I built for a customer (the green boat) and three pictures of another one built by a friend (the blue boat with the sail set).

http://s578.photobucket.com/albums/s...tone/Bluegill/

Ross Lillistone

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Well done, Ross. The best I could come up with was "gunter lug" and "American design"....

Mike

[botebum]

She looks very much like Bluegill but MMan's measurement is a full 2' shorter. Is it possibly a hybrid of Bluegill and another Redmond design, Flapjack which matches the length? I can't find a good picture of Flapjack but in the ones I can find the sheer looks different.

Doug

[Thorne]

Does either of the two designs in question have that strange reversible daggerboard-thingie? If not, then the builder may have modified far more than just the daggerboard...including the length and whatever.

[botebum]

Both are centerboarders but it's not unheard of to replace a centerboard with a broken or missing pin with a daggerboard so as to go sailing sooner.

Doug