What would you call this?

[jevvv]

Someone gifted us this little thing to either use or sell and the proceeds go to the Trust ( http://www.mission-adventure.org.nz ) The guy who gave it to us built it.

I'm writing up a listing for TradeMe (EnZed's answer to eBay) and don't quite know what to call it

[Captain Blight]

I'd call it a little blue boat.

[mizzenman]

pram, scow?

[Michael Beckman]

A super pram yawl thingy.

[jevvv]

LOL.... love it.

Thanks



I've put it as a home made dory.
here http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=201380444

[bucheron]

NZ scows roolz. I love it will I be able to sail it back to Brisbane?

I was expecting lee-boards . . . . . is that a lee-wheel in the second picture.

I hope it fetches at least $3k.

cheers

[Woxbox]

I'd say a scow. But the closest thing I know to it is the Bolger Brick Schooner.

[goodbasil]

Looks like a trailer that can be sailed down a highway without the expense of an engine and fuel.

[Thorne]

Why would it not be a sailing garvey rather than a scow?

I'd be tempted to call it a "Sailing garvey yawl, gaff-rigged mainsail and boomed mizzen".

[andrewe]

The Bermudan sail is off an OK dinghy, the rest does look Bolger inspired.
A

[Henning 4148]

It's not a yawl, it's a ketch.

[MiddleAgesMan]

If you called it a stretched Puddle Duck Racer your prospects would have a pretty good idea what it is.

[switters]

PDR limousine, very funny.

[jevvv]

LOL!!!


Thanks all!

I'm enjoying it

Hopefully it will appeal to someone here too, enough to buy it.

and Wox- it does look a bit like the one in your pic!

[Paul Pless]

pdr limousine, very funny.

lol

[Eric D]

I'd say a scow. But the closest thing I know to it is the Bolger Brick Schooner.

not one to usually criticise others boats, kinda like never saying a bad word about someone's dog or wife....but dang!!! That is one ugly boat. I guess I have not seen much of Mr. Boldger's work, thanks for the heads up on what to avoid!!

Scow/pram is my vote, abeit a larger one.

[jevvv]

I was surprised at how much sheer it has actually

[Thorne]

PDR limousine, very funny.

Yes, brilliant! Perhaps a PDR Mothership?

Sure looks more like a yawl than a ketch to me, but I suppose on small boats it doesn't make much difference.

[Chip-skiff]

Scow + Yawl = SCOWL

[Nicholas Scheuer]

Well, the mizzen mast is positioned forward of the rudder post, so You'd have to call it a "Ketch". Perhaps "Scow Ketch, with Gaff-rigged main" would be appropriate, as square-nosed Schooners on SF Bay are called Scow Schooners.

Moby Nick

[Captain Intrepid]

Well, the mizzen mast is positioned forward of the rudder post, so You'd have to call it a "Ketch". Perhaps "Scow Ketch, with Gaff-rigged main" would be appropriate, as square-nosed Schooners on SF Bay are called Scow Schooners.

Moby Nick

A scetch?

[donald branscom]

Leeboard ,external framed, spirit/gunter rigged, scowketch yaw'l? JEVVV ???HAHhhahahah

Refering to the 2nd photo on this thread.

[Michael D. Storey]

Leeboard ,external framed, spirit/gunter rigged, scowketch yaw'l? JEVVV ???HAHhhahahah

Refering to the 2nd photo on this thread.

Suggest that that is a spare tire, not a lee board.

[Tom Robb]

Since a yawl rig doesn't expect much drive from that little mizzen, I'd call her a yawl rigged punt of uncertain parentage.
I also wouldn't expect much money for it.

[Jay Greer]

It is a Cement Trough Class Ketch. Very popular with Masons.
Jay

[callsign222]

It's Totally Awesome, that's what I would call it.

Reminds me of a Michalak Mikesboat. It's not, but that's what it reminds me of.

[Lewisboats]

I think the defining difference from a garvey and a scow is a flat bottom. Most boats I have seen called Garveys have had a shallow vee and a wid(er) bow and are designed mostly for motor. Scows almost exclusively have flat bottoms, almost no narrowing of the ends and vertical or almost vertical transoms. Prams on the other hand tend to be narrower at the bow than the stern by quite a bit, have significant rocker but are both flat bottomed and veed or even rounded. There are of course variations and I have see prams that have nearly the same width bow as stern but mostly in the really teeny ones. Prams are also mostly row or sail or both. I would call that a Scowl or Scawl or Scow Yawl (only due to the size of the mizzen...a bigger one and it would qualify {technically} as a ketch (the rudder thing)).

My opinion of course...see below!

[Tom Hunter]

It's a doll house scow, a rare minature version of the famous New Zealand cargo scow. These boats were developed to deliver tiny furniture, very small peices of lumber, pea coal, and other supplies to the growing number of doll houses lining the coast near Aukland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

They were done in by the internal combustion engine, you probably have the only survivor.

[jevvv]

It is a Cement Trough Class Ketch. Very popular with Masons.
Jay

LOL!!! really, I was lol!

Thanks for the chuckle

[jevvv]

It's a doll house scow, a rare minature version of the famous New Zealand cargo scow. These boats were developed to deliver tiny furniture, very small peices of lumber, pea coal, and other supplies to the growing number of doll houses lining the coast near Aukland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

They were done in by the internal combustion engine, you probably have the only survivor.

Fabulous!

I love the imagination here - keeps me coming back

[jevvv]

It's Totally Awesome, that's what I would call it.

Reminds me of a Michalak Mikesboat. It's not, but that's what it reminds me of.

I can see why it reminded you of one of these!

[John B]

Any luck selling it jevvv?

[jevvv]

Thanks for asking JohnB

Yep we did sell it in the end... by selling the trailer I think

Well it was a nice galvanised trailer, spare tyre etc (can't actually remember the price though)

Oh, and I found something at NorSand's yard yesterday which looks like a proper one - probably what ours was supposed to look like (picture when I get it online)