"Key West, Hauling Anchor" plans?

[Kevin Zembower]

My favorite picture of a boat is Winslow Homer's "Key West, Hauling Anchor" (see http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?55320+0+0+homerwc ). It's hanging over my monitor as I type this.

Anyone know of plans for a similar boat? Would this be called a two-masted, gaff-rigged (although only the main seems to be gaff-rigged), traditionally-rigged schooner?

Thanks for your thoughts.

-Kevin Zembower

[ 09-02-2004, 09:40 AM: Message edited by: Kevin Zembower ]

[Ian McColgin]

She's a normal Bahamian/Gulf schooner of the era. I don't off hand know of any survivors though the hull type is carried on in the fishing boats, as recently featured in WB.

If you look at the type closely, not just low freeboard and stylistic features, you see a hull and rig superbly adapted to the use but perhaps not so versitile, which may be why the type is rare and usually unhappy away from the Bahamas' felicious breezes.

[ 09-02-2004, 09:48 AM: Message edited by: Ian McColgin ]

[Wiley Baggins]

You can probably make a start with the book Clean, Sweet Wind: The Watermen of the West Indies
by Douglas C. Pyle. Here is a link to a description (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070526796/qid%3D1094139520/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-2139508-8440043) at amazon.com.

[ahp]

When my wife and I were in the Bahamas about 20 years ago we stayed at Green Turtle Kay. It is a little place, with one village, New Plymouth, settled by New Englanders who prefered to stay loyal to George III.

There was an old gentleman there who made and sold models to tourists, of schooners. Green Turtle had a thriving boatbuilding industry many yreas ago. I suspect he was modeling from memory.

Go to Green Turtle, hava nice quite vacation, and see if you can find one of those models. This may be the best you can do.

[Thad]

I believe it could be a 30-40 foot sharpie, gaff ketch rig with bowsprit.