do you have a favourite stern

[peter radclyffe]

[Paul Pless]

do i have to pick just one???

[Concordia...41]

Don't get me started....

[Concordia...41]

January 2005

[Concordia...41]

What a difference a few years and tremendous amounts of time and money make...

January 2008

[Peerie Maa]

Too many choices.

or

[WX]

Just curious, what tools did the Viking have to cut their planks? Surely not just axe and adze!

[Paul Pless]

Just curious, what tools did the Viking have to cut their planks? Surely not just axe and adze!

nope, they used froes too

[Paul Pless]

Too many choices.

i agree

[WX]

nope they used froes too

Which makes their boat building skills even more exceptional.

[Peerie Maa]

Just curious, what tools did the Viking have to cut their planks? Surely not just axe and adze!

Hafted splitting wedges, side axes with wide blades (see the Bayeux embroidery)

Breast drills with spoon bits (see the boat builder in the upper hull), scrapers to cut the mouldings for the fine details.

The Vikings could make saws, which are extremely difficult to do by hand, but they were only used by the comb makers for dividing the teeth in the horn blanks.

[Russ Manheimer]

Yes I do.



Just after moving her into her Winter position.

Russ

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Laura Ellen has a pretty back end too


and a tattoo on her hip

[Canoeyawl]

[bamamick]

The double-enders seem to be the favorites, and I must admit that as I have repeatedly said that the 210 is one of my favourite designs ever that I kind of agree with that assessment. The funny thing is that to my knowledge I have never sailed on a boat you could call a double-ender.

I have about decided that I have many, many, more adventures left to me before I get too old to get out there and get my butt wet.

Mickey Lake

[Don Kurylko]

[Garret]

I've been in the bilge too much. I wasn't sure this was going to be about boats...

But, since we are talking about boats, I'll post my favorite gal's:

[James McMullen]

I've liked both double-ended and transom sterns for different purposes in different types of boats. But oddly enough, it's Katie who really has a strong preference--she vastly prefers the look of double-enders to the point that she's told me not to bother to build a Whitehall or Wherry if it's for us--she'd much rather us have something like a Peapod or a Faering or of course Rowan instead. I find it quite endearing I have to admit. . . .

[AstoriaDave]

Here's mine: http://www.pbase.com/bartenderdave/image/123210995 adorned ...

http://www.pbase.com/bartenderdave/image/123093895 and sans lettering.

[Daniel Noyes]

[wizbang 13]

[peter radclyffe]

what is this Don

[Thorne]

[ramillett]

1953 S&S

The other S&S

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

The port hand one.



Oh, and here we are again:



This is a perfect stern; it never slams or slaps, it gives room for the mainsheet buffer and so on and is wide enough on deck unlike sone counters which are too narrow, it protects the rudder stock (and deflects the dinghy when at anchor without doing much damage) it gives useful reserve bouyancy and it looks perfect.

Heaven forbid that I should be biassed in favour of my own boat, but I've honestly never seen a better one.

[Duncan Gibbs]

Since we're engaging in total "mine's the best!"...

[Ocean Spray]

The William & Anthony, a 15'00" Ducktrap Wherry

[martin schulz]

Yes, I do have a stern that I admire eveytime I see it:

[Duncan Gibbs]

You win Martin!

[P.L.Lenihan]

Who would have ever thought cement could look so good! Nice choice Martin!

I'd like to post my favorite but I'm such a glutton for all sorts of rear ends(Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.....again.) I wouldn't know where to stop! But then even the finest rear is all but useless if it doesn't move or get used much.


Cheers!


Peter

[martin schulz]

You win Martin!

Well thanks!
I must say though that this stern only looks good with that equally pleasing stem:

[Gerarddm]

James can post a pic of Island Star 's lovely stern under construction, if he chooses, but by golly I think it's gorgeous.

And my other one is no stern at all- the classic NZ yacht Rona.

[Peerie Maa]

Do we get more than one go?

Pity about the fender.

[Canoeyawl]

I hope so...

[Don Kurylko]

what is this Don

Peter….that’s the boat I’m building for myself. The hull lines were drawn by Tom Colvin, an American designer better know for his steel and aluminium designs, and junk rigs. This boat is cold-moulded wooden construction. It will be rigged as a traditional, topmast gaff cutter.