Prettiest boat under thirty feet

[Lewy]

Canoodle
Own design strip planked paulownia
http://s636.photobucket.com/albums/uu81/Lewy_the_fly/

[rbgarr]

IIRC there's one of these in the St. Michael's Museum collection. A Yankee tonging boat or something like that? Pete Culler made reference to one somewhere in his writings. Ben Fuller would know.

For a work boat this one sure is pretty:




Steven

[Layzboy2011]

what is this one called, i tried looking it up but couldnt find it...

I know that I am bringing up an old thread, but I ordered the book and will let you know what her name is when I get it. also I need to vote for the herreshoff Prudence as well, she is very well balanced...

[Jay Greer]

I trust you will forgive my personal prejudice in favor of my own version of the Common Sense Sloop that is based on the 1930's design by Matt Walsh of San Pedro CA. Here is "Red Witch" a modern version of an old design. The boat sleeps five, will out run a modern six meter and can be easily handled by two persons. "Red Witch" is 28'LOLx7'beamx5'5"draft and displaces 10,000lbs.
Jay

[ChaseKenyon]

[riversailor92]

Has anyone mentioned Bolger's light schooner? It may not be the most amazing thing anyone's ever seen afloat but she does have a certain graceful elegance about her that makes her worthy of note. Maybe I'm wrong but the light schooner is just a thought.

[CapnJ2ds]

You fools! They are ALL the prettiest boat!

[starcrew]

Pick a Newick. Any Newick.

[Russ Manheimer]

It's been a couple of pages so here's my entry again:


Taken last weekend. Just riggged and ready for the 2009 - 2010 Off-season.

Russ

[gert]

It's been a couple of pages so here's my entry again:

Got my vote

[gert]

With one exception;thanks Rob:

hope mine looks this good when done

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

[WX]

Lead light windows, curtains and all!

[Pitsligo]

Not to brag, but I have to vote for my own little girl:

[WX]

And no one would deny your pride in her...so many beautiful boats a man could break is neck trying to see them all.

[katiedobe]

Thanks for all the photos. Joe where did you get the photo of that boat in the above post?

[esingleman]

I can answer for Joe. It's one of the boats in the Dutch Fleet that are here as part of the Henry Hudson 400 year anniversary festival. Joe must have taken the photo while they were down his way. They are up here in Albany now, but I think they are being shipped out real soon.

[thestink]

knud reimers "tumlaren." gorgeous little canoe stern thing.
http://www.classicyachting.net/other.../tumlaren.html

[luizebs]

The origional 28' Common Sense Sloop was designed and built in 1931 by the legendary Matt Walsh of Hurricane Gulch in LA Harbor to allow his daugthers to compete in club races at California YC. The boats were built as a one design class. Six boats were built to Matt's design. My own boat "Red Witch" is a modification of the origional design and is even faster than the first boats. Number four Went in the 1934 Trans Pac race. She was first boat to clear the west end of Catalina Island and led the fleet for five days before being dismasted due to a failed backstay fitting. Even after losing three days putting up a jury rig the boat finished third in class! The Trans Pac Committee was so concerned over the giant killer speed of this tiny boat that a new length rule was set thereby eliminating future competition for the Common Sense in the Honolulu Race. In short, the boat goes like stink in any weather in any sea and still affords good creature comfort. I am also planning to design an optional gaff rigged version.
Jay

Very interesting Jay.

Can you post pictures or links to more info about this boat?

Thanks a lot,
luiz

[StevenBauer]

This has to be one of the best threads ever. I just looked through all 10 pages.

This little Colin Archer beauty has somehow lodged itself in my head and I thought it belonged in this thread, too.







Steven

[perldog007]

I have to agree with Bruce, here are a couple of shots I took of a Rushton Vesper sailing on Blue Mountain Lake... Not mine (I wish!), but I'll have a new decked sailing canoe finished in time for the No-Octane Regatta in June!

Cheers,
Dan

What he said, that's gorgeous.

[wizbang 13]

Wisht' I knew how to put a pic on here. Got a "Kutter" from CWB 2 years ago. 23' lil' sis of a Knarr.It's in ma' avatar fer' now. Changed the rig to gaff n' added a cuddy.

[dpetrzelka]

Wizbang - do you have the photos posted online anywhere? Or just on your machine? We can help you figure out how to post them.

I would love to see some photos of your norwegian Kutter - I was admiring them for quite some time down at the CWB, and three weeks before I finally decided to take one home, the last two sold. (Of course now I have my BB14)

[wizbang 13]

Only have a few pics of the fix up job, no underway digi photos and the boat is all wrapped up for winter. I am going to my other boat in the BVI on Monday. 34 ' venus ketch

[StuartWeibel]

Maybe not the winner, but certainly a contender:
Atkin gaff-rigged tops'l cutter
26' LOD
http://svripple.blogspot.com/

I don't own her yet, but should by the end of the week.

[StuartWeibel]

Not to brag, but I have to vote for my own little girl:

very pretty indeed!

[Zidu]

Not to brag, but I have to vote for my own little girl :

What a design ? Heaven Herreshoff 12 1-2 Class ? http://www.landingschool.edu/ls_havenclass.html

I found a few days ago this beautiful one. Designed by Phil Swift, Willow Bay Boats:









http://www.willowbayboats.co.uk/shilling.htm
How to built Shilling ( Margherita cutter ): http://sailingmargherita.blogspot.com/


Step by step manual how to build Shilling :


http://shilling.blogspot.com/search?...&max-results=7

[Trauet]

Wisht' I knew how to put a pic on here. Got a "Kutter" from CWB 2 years ago. 23' lil' sis of a Knarr.It's in ma' avatar fer' now. Changed the rig to gaff n' added a cuddy.

Well, some of us old kutter sailors in Norway agree with you Wisbang! We've created a Facebook group for people like us, called Kutter Sailors OHOI!! See you there.........

[jsjpd1]

Caledonia Yawl, but I'm biased.

[RodB]

Nat Herreshoff's last boat, "Pleasure"... a 30 foot Alerion. The rig was changed to a yawl rig after the first year...

Nats comments on this boat... she was the fastest craft in Biscayne Bay....





RodB

[wizbang 13]

My 23' Kutter, converted to gaff cabin added

[wizbang 13]

A sistership, another of the CWB boats, re launched recently after 3 years

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

or possibly her little sister

[Larks]

Another great thread to be resurected, Wiz what is "Kutty?" in #384 and any idea on the meaning of the name?

[wizbang 13]

Kutty is my Kutter. just a play on the name. I added a "cuddy",I did a lot of "cutting",and a bit of a private joke

[JimConlin]

Quiet Tune

[sailboy3]

Stone Horse:

[Jay Greer]

Very interesting Jay.

Can you post pictures or links to more info about this boat?

Thanks a lot,
luiz

Thanks for your interest Luiz. Here is another shot of my Common Sense #5, "Red Witch". Common Sense#I has just undergone a massive rebuild necessitated by her 79 years of hard sailing. She is now racing, competively, in San Diego and holding her own against forty and fifty footers. She regularily embarrases Santa Cruz 27's.

[John Little]

No contest. It's got to be the Salty Heaven



()Still can't figure how to post a picture.

[John Little]

No contest. It's got to be the Salty Heaven



()Still can't figure how to post a picture.

[Geoff C]

what is this one called, i tried looking it up but couldnt find it...

That's Thomas Clapham's Roslyn sharpie Minoqua. There's more information in The Sharpie Book.

[marujo.sortudo]

How about something more elemental and an actual wooden, working boat that is still used, the jangada:

http://www.jansochor.com/photo-essay/jangadeiros.html

or:

[Lucky Luke]

Kutty is my Kutter. just a play on the name. I added a "cuddy",I did a lot of "cutting",and a bit of a private joke

Nice play on the "Kutter" name...but that does not explain the question mark on "KUTTY?" . Just intrigued....but that maybe part of the "privacy"...???

Thanks anyway to have resurrected this wonderful thread, and that's a really cutie-cuddy-"Kutty?".

[Lucky Luke]

How about something more elemental and an actual wooden, working boat that is still used, the jangada:

Sure nice, but unless you want to show a whole set of pictures like in the first link (http://www.jansochor.com/etc...), would you be so kind as to post the image here and not give a link to it so that we don't have to open half dozen pages? It's not difficult: just add [IMG] before the picture's URL, and [/IMG] at the end, and that's what you get:

[DGentry]

Ha - mine actually glows!

RUTH, the rowboat (and Beata, the rowboater):

[marujo.sortudo]

Done. Thanks for the tip.

[Venchka]

Caledonia Yawl, but I'm biased.

Aye! No need for me to be redundant.

[Dick Wynne]

And prototype for the 33ft SEA HARMONY and others

[Frankevich]

Anything by Iain Oughtred such as the Eun Mara yawl or the Grey Seal. And how about those A. Strange yawls or A. Mason Ostkust mentioned above; beautiful. On the heftier side, how about a L. Giles Vertue or a Harrison Butler Z-4 tonner. Lots of choices, or are there...?

[Alex Low]

Had to sneak her in here - 18'9" on deck: