WB#21 question ?

[headonz]

Hi all,

my first post

I was doing a search for information on Spray replica plans and come across the WB forum where someone mentioned (2001)that in back issue WB#21 there was as article on Scud ,thought by many to be the closest replica to Spray and it also mentioned that there was a set of offsets included.

Does anyone have this issue or know for sure that this is correct before i order this issue from WB and have it sent all the way to New Zealand.

[JimConlin]

It's quite a complete article (18 pages) describing the construction of Scud, George Maynard's Spray.

[Hwyl]

I went on a daysail aboard in Camden, it was less than scintillating and very slow to tack.

[PeterSibley]

I meet George in Brisbane and he still says she was a great boat and loved the yawl rig .Buy the issue ....well worth it if you are interested in Spray .

[headonz]

thanks for the feed back ,I will get the issue,

BTW Scud is renamed Spray of St Briac and owned by Guy Bernardin and resontaly completed its 'third' circumnavigation ,that I know of.

And despite the never ending misinformed ridicule the design enjoys they continue to forefill their intended use.Blue water.

cheers

[Hwyl]

And despite the never ending misinformed ridicule the design enjoys they continue to forefill their intended use.Blue water.

cheers

Let's see. I've sailed the boat, you haven't. I have just over 85,000 blue water miles how many do you have?

I did not use ridicule and actually quite like the boat and I'd hardly say I'm misinformed.

Cheers back to you.

[headonz]

Let's see. I've sailed the boat, you haven't. I have just over 85,000 blue water miles how many do you have?

I did not use ridicule and actually quite like the boat and I'd hardly say I'm misinformed.

Cheers back to you.

well lets see,I have been aboard several examples,have probably 120,000 bw miles at least , wasn't reffiring to you percificly but never expected , and who would , to find that the design wasnt anything than less than scintillating daysailing,like I said , blue water.

[cm2ncfsu2]

Couldn't you buy the issue as a digital download and thus not have to have it shipped? We are a society of instant gratification for goodness sakes :-)

[headonz]

Couldn't you buy the issue as a digital download and thus not have to have it shipped? We are a society of instant gratification for goodness sakes :-)

dont own and never will own a credit card unfortunately ,

and because of the endless ' instant gratification' online available, probably just as well

[cm2ncfsu2]

I hear you and you're probably better off !!!

[Paul Pless]

well lets see,I have been aboard several examples,have probably 120,000 bw miles at least

What types of craft are those miles logged on?

[johngsandusky]

Don't pick on the guy, he's new here. Welcome aboard Headonz. I've also read a lot of criticism of Spray, and of Slocum, over the years.(not necessarily on this forum) It bothers and amazes me that people want to challenge his achievement. The man rebuilt a dead boat and sailed it around the world. I'm impressed. As for Spray, to each his own. It was available and he got the best out of her. I admire, but don't covet, the design. I once looked into buying one, but it was too much boat, too much work, too much money! Interestingly, my current boat is similar to her: a 39' ketch, 12' beam, 4'6"draft.

[Ian McColgin]

Scud followed the research Capt Pete Culler did for his Spray so you can use that. Capt Pete taught me the trick of good mizzen control to make a long keeled boat, inevitably a bit stately in stays, tack with authority.

Spray is a good passage making boat as mostly you're off the wind, she steers predictably and easily, and her motion is so easy that the extra weeks in passage are quite relaxing.

[StevenBauer]

the extra weeks in passage are quite relaxing.

Steven