Row/sail boat ID help please

[Anastasia]

http://home.internetcds.com/~jamz/images/Sailing_Crew_1.jpg

We just had our maiden voyage on
a funky old wooden sailboat that
I bought at a garage sale a couple weeks ago.
No plan to buy, no research, no consultant,
just a impulse buy.
Well, thank goodness it floats and sails!

http://home.internetcds.com/~jamz/images/Sailing_Crew_2.jpg

A friend - the fellow with the beard in the front-
has encouraged me to
determine what kind of boat we have.
He guesses that it was manufactured with
others of the same design by a boatbuilder.
I have tried google searches with no
luck yet.

http://home.internetcds.com/~jamz/images/boat1.jpg

It seems to have been made
to be both a rowboat or sailing boat.
It is all wood except for fittings and sails.
Looking at our boat, it seems
descriptors would include
17 foot long wooden sloop daysailer
with a daggerboard keel, open hull,
with a transom hung skeg,
with Marconi sail and jibs.
The hull is riveted, lapped, strip planked mahogany.
It has oar locks.

http://home.internetcds.com/~jamz/images/boat3.jpg

I'm including photos from our maiden voyage.

Thanks for consideration

Anastasia
(I'm the little girl waving in the second photo!)

P.S. Sorry these photos are so big,
but the better for you to see them

[mmd]

I'm sorry I can't help you with identifying your boat, but I am very jealous of the yard sales you have out there! Good luck and happy sailing. smile.gif

[plimsol]

It is a RANA boat. They were(are) built in Norway, North of the Artic Circle. They ate built of pitch pine. All plain sawn lumber.
Dick Wagner of Seattle imported them into Seattle in the 1970's. He can be reached at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle. Try www. cwb.org to find the web site.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

I have never been to a yard sale like that :eek:
cool boat :cool:

[Dave Williams]

Excelent! Good for you mate! Enjoy!

[Ian McColgin]

Lovely boat.

Isn't it amazing how this forum has someone like (in this case) plimsol who actually knows the answer. What treasures make up this mob !

[Anastasia]

Oh, yes. I'm so happy to know what kind of boat my Rose is. Thanks so much PLIMSOL for the info. I've been trying to find out our boat was for weeks. To have someone on board the forum who can ID the boat within a day and also give me a lead on how to contact the the person who imported the boat some 30 years ago certainly made this site exciting to me right off.

The whole journey to ID her has been valuable to this owner of her first boat. After quite a few hours with google searches I've seen many beautiful wooden boats. And recently when our family went on vacation along the northern California/southern Oregon coast we went to marinas to see if we could find any wood boats. And yes, we found people working on their wooden boats and chatted with them. What fun!

Going to our small lake harbor, when people see Rose they often want to know what kind of boat she is, where we got her, and how she sails. A couple people have said, "Now that looks like a 'real boat!'" I'm looking forward to growing our story of her.

I'm homeschooling my five year old daughter this year and now plan to have part of that be learning about our boat. Not just the boat, but also the culture that surrounds our wooden boat.

And, you bet, I'm planning on drawing on the Wooden Boat forum in my teaching. Thanks so much folks.

[nedL]

Welcome. Wonderful looking little daysailer, you should have a lot of fun with her!

[Alan D. Hyde]

Congratulations, Anastasia.

I suspect she is entirely clinker-built (lapstrake). Strip-building involves gluing and edge-nailing almost square small long strips of wood in order to form what typically becomes a smooth hull (no laps).

The thing hung on the transom is more likely to be a rudder than a skeg. A skeg is a keel-like board or plank which protrudes below the centerline of the boat aft to protect the rudder and bottom and to improve tracking ability.

You're off to a great start. The nomenclature is initially confusing, but it will come to you quickly.

Have a good time with her. May you and your family and friends spend many happy hours pushing water under her keel.

Alan

[ 09-04-2003, 02:18 PM: Message edited by: Alan D. Hyde ]

[Anastasia]

Thanks, Alan for the pointers on boat design nomenclature.

So let me try and describe what the Rose is:

A 30 year oldish 17 foot Norwegian made Rana wooden daysailing sloop
with an open clinker, lapstake pitch pine hull.
The boat has a daggerboard keel, skeg,
and transom hung rudder
The sails are rigged Bermudian/Marconi style.

Any suggestions.corrections.

http://home.internetcds.com/~jamz/images/boat2.jpg

[plimsol]

If you look closely at the fastners, you will see that they are copper rivets, the biggest technological advance in Nordic boat building in 1000 years.
There still is a controvesry over this, the traditionalists insist that a boat can only be fastened with iron nails smelted from bog iron. This is the ssame group that insists that a broad axe is better than a bandsaw.

Have fun and do explore the the Coos Bay estuary.

[Anastasia]

What fun this is to learn about all this stuff.

Yes, I have noticed those copper rivets. Today, for example, I was brushing some antifreeze into cracks and cervices inside and outside the boat to slow down the leaking and rotting.
While doing this I noticed a variety of types of fasteners. I'm wondering now what fasteners I should use as I maintain this boat.

Are there any Rana wooden sloop owners out there? Thanks to Oyvind providing me with an web address
to contact Rana, I did query them about the boat, but they could not confirm the design without their identification plate number,
which I could not find on the boat. They were also concerned about the color. I guess they expect us to keep boats in the original condition and color scheme. It also seems they stopped making wooden boats in the
70's and don't concern themselves with them any longer.

So if you know anyone out there with a boat like mine I would appreciate some contact information, maybe as a personal message.