Re: double-ended light scooner?
> There's a "His and Hers Schooner" but I don't think it's 23 feet.It's not. It's 19'6", and just fits on my front porch. The first
> There are some people on the list who'd know.
layer of the bottom went on last night, and I managed to get the
Mother Of All Slivers from one of the bottom pieces when I picked
it up to put it on....
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His and hers schooners are 19'6' by 4'2" beam. Really pretty boats
though. What condition is your 23 footer, and yea, please post photos.
Bruce Hector
though. What condition is your 23 footer, and yea, please post photos.
Bruce Hector
>does anyone know of a double-ended version of the lightThere's a "His and Hers Schooner" but I don't think it's 23 feet.
>scooner? i recently bought a 23' double-ender at auction,it looks
>very much light a light scooner. i haven't been able to id it but
>could post a pic . thanks
There are some people on the list who'd know.
Shucks. I thought you were asking if it's possible to make two light
scooner bow sections and join them amidships to make a proa hull...
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There is a 24x5'11"x3'6" design called Centennial 11 in"Different Boats" and a very similar basic shape forms the lower part of Birdwatcher, (23' 6"x5"7") in "Boats with an open mind.
About 20-odd years ago it dawned on the rest of us slow learners that the same basic "Instant Boat"...see title of that name, could be had in a whole variety of modular increments of size based on the number of sheets of ply used as hull sides and the sub-division of those sheets usually into 12,16,24 or even 48 inch widths. Side flare usually was about 1 in 4 to bring the heels of stem and stern to the wl. The results of all this was that there are numbers of more or less Bolgerish boats out there,either double enders or skiffs with a transom of various widths to suit the expected loads and usage. There are any number of flattie skiffs.sharpies,dories and every intermediate hybrid possible giving probably more satisfaction per dollar invested or hour to construct than anything else. PB didn't invent the genre but by golly he let us all understand the fundamentals of the design and the limitations therein.
I am responsible for some more or less hairy examples that were built without power tools on remote parts of the pacific and were a much safer and cheaper alternative to existing metal or fiberglass boats. we even built a seagoing 52 x 10x3'6" foot double ender with long shallow composite concrete keel and low gaff ketch rig that gave terrific reaching speed and could recover smartly from being laid flat in a line squall,which we did,owing to stupidity and Cook Island beer..............
Only 5'6" headroom but you live on deck in the tropics. It cost $5,000 aussie dollars in 1988 and the craft still lives (I think ) in the Solomons. You just can't get more boat for the money and who cares if it piles up on the reef? Boats should wear out.........like us.
Take your pick where your 23 footer came from. If it's cheap and strong you will have a lot of fun. Fair Winds!!!!! Andy
cushing_craft <cushing_craft@...> wrote:
does anyone know of a double-ended version of the light
scooner? i recently bought a 23' double-ender at auction,it looks
very much light a light scooner. i haven't been able to id it but
could post a pic . thanks
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About 20-odd years ago it dawned on the rest of us slow learners that the same basic "Instant Boat"...see title of that name, could be had in a whole variety of modular increments of size based on the number of sheets of ply used as hull sides and the sub-division of those sheets usually into 12,16,24 or even 48 inch widths. Side flare usually was about 1 in 4 to bring the heels of stem and stern to the wl. The results of all this was that there are numbers of more or less Bolgerish boats out there,either double enders or skiffs with a transom of various widths to suit the expected loads and usage. There are any number of flattie skiffs.sharpies,dories and every intermediate hybrid possible giving probably more satisfaction per dollar invested or hour to construct than anything else. PB didn't invent the genre but by golly he let us all understand the fundamentals of the design and the limitations therein.
I am responsible for some more or less hairy examples that were built without power tools on remote parts of the pacific and were a much safer and cheaper alternative to existing metal or fiberglass boats. we even built a seagoing 52 x 10x3'6" foot double ender with long shallow composite concrete keel and low gaff ketch rig that gave terrific reaching speed and could recover smartly from being laid flat in a line squall,which we did,owing to stupidity and Cook Island beer..............
Only 5'6" headroom but you live on deck in the tropics. It cost $5,000 aussie dollars in 1988 and the craft still lives (I think ) in the Solomons. You just can't get more boat for the money and who cares if it piles up on the reef? Boats should wear out.........like us.
Take your pick where your 23 footer came from. If it's cheap and strong you will have a lot of fun. Fair Winds!!!!! Andy
cushing_craft <cushing_craft@...> wrote:
does anyone know of a double-ended version of the light
scooner? i recently bought a 23' double-ender at auction,it looks
very much light a light scooner. i haven't been able to id it but
could post a pic . thanks
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does anyone know of a double-ended version of the light
scooner? i recently bought a 23' double-ender at auction,it looks
very much light a light scooner. i haven't been able to id it but
could post a pic . thanks
scooner? i recently bought a 23' double-ender at auction,it looks
very much light a light scooner. i haven't been able to id it but
could post a pic . thanks