* Bob wrote:

Find the boook titled, "American Small Sailing Craft" by Chappell.

Thanks, I have a copy and will look through it again.


I I built and sailed the paint off a 15' sprit rigged dory. things I
learned:
It was a work boat.
Designed to sail best with 200 lbs of cod on board .
Did not sail to wind or tack that well.
Looked cool !
Rig was unstayed doug fir pole with lots of splits. I got the mast
from a discarded salmon trolling pole sitting in the parking lot of
Dock 5. Worked great and cheep plus stayed with the historic workboat
nature of the boat.
I learned a lot about boat and rig design cause everything was
traditional "work boat' fitted. ie galvanized awning pullies.

Yeah...thats why as far as dories go I thought the beachcomber type was
good. I can balast is with a couple of sandbags. Parker says he modified
the flat-iron slightly to make it more suitable for recreation(the same
things he does to his sharpies).


If you have kids or a wife I think you'ld have more fun if you bought
a 15' or 19' Potter. I they sail more smartly and are "nicer." AND you
can be sailing that weekend! Besides no need for 200 pounds of cod
sloshing around ur feet. Unless you are one of thoes guys who want to
take a great workboat design and *******ize it by creating a "musuem
display quality" jewlery boat to impress everyone but is too pretty to
knock around and get the 22 top coats of hand rubbed hightech stuff
stratched.

I'm single and like paint. lol Putting bright work on a workboat is
lipstick on a pig to me. Cool boat recomendation though.

Personally, I was poor and wanted to learn. So I used a poor man's
design and fitted it accordingly.
Bob

This is basically the place I am now.

thanks again,
matthew

On Sep 30, 12:10 pm, MatthewK wrote:


I'm single and like paint. lol Putting bright work on a workboat is
lipstick on a pig to me. Cool boat recomendation though.

thanks again,
matthew

Hey Matthew:

Single.......... mmmmmmmm. Im about to be the same.. YES !

My dream boat would be a 40'+ leaboard scow in steel or Al. Now that
would be a beast to just beach and walk away for a day. The Alma in
SF, CA is one of the last. But way to big for single handed

* get som 3/8" CDX.
* Make a trasparency of some lines and put it on an overhead
projector. Trace the lines on heavy butcher paper taped to the
wall. Some will say the optics distort the lines. So........ fair it
wit ur i.
* Or do the transfer the table if offsets gig.
* Then stich and clue it together.
* Slap on some epoxy and cloth on the bottom and paint above the water
line. Maybe pine tar + turpintine + linseed the inside. But it get all
black and ucky. Hell, epoxy it!

Go sailing in a week. !
Then drag it behind your 10 year old subaru down to Baja and sail the
paint off it.
Thats what I did in 1982.

great time sailing, beach camping, snorkeling/spearfishing ....

Hope ya have some fun ! It all changes when you have kids. But now
mine is off to college with an athletic scholarship....!
Now its my turn.

See ya on the water
Bob

Bob wrote:

On Sep 30, 12:10 pm, MatthewK wrote:



I'm single and like paint. lol Putting bright work on a workboat is
lipstick on a pig to me. Cool boat recomendation though.


thanks again,
matthew


Hey Matthew:

Single.......... mmmmmmmm. Im about to be the same.. YES !

My dream boat would be a 40'+ leaboard scow in steel or Al. Now that
would be a beast to just beach and walk away for a day. The Alma in
SF, CA is one of the last. But way to big for single handed


Every time I look at William Garden's "Tillicum" scow schooner I
think the same thing.