Herreshoff...36' Meadowlark..price keeps dropping.

[Norske3]

Great for the Chesapeake web page (http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/pl_boat_detail.jsp?currency=USD&units=Feet&checked_boats=688508&slim=quick&)

[ 02-16-2005, 07:49 PM: Message edited by: Norske3 ]

[Donn]

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[Victor]

The perfect gunk holer?

[N. Scheuer]

I'd be interested if I didn't need a trailerable boat.

Our Shearwater Yawl is substantially a smaller Meadowlark, 28-ft LOA, 2500-lbs, easily trailered anywhwere. From Illinois to Maine last summer; to Maine again in 2005.

Moby Nick

[Jack Heinlen]

At that price one imagines much wrong with the boat. But, maybe not. Sometimes things don't sell, and people want to clear the decks.

[Ian MacFarlane]

I purchased the ML in question. She has been vandalized and while stupidly, not intensively. A little rot and drying out but again not too bad. I am tyring to get in touch with Charles Carini but keep drawing a blank. If anyone can assist me in contacting him I would appreciate it. Thanks

[Wild Dingo]

Ian try

ccarini@msn.com

Ive had emails with him at that email over the last week

good value is Charlie {good value = good bloke for those not bilingual in Aussie tongue.gif }

[dunbarpm]

It is a nice boat. I owned a 33ft version for several years, sold her for about that same price maybe 10 years ago when illness precluded me from keeping her up -- the boat was built in '53 and needed a second major overhaul - I had done the first a long time ago. With no keel or chine log you have to pay attention to the hull.

Mine was built to spec but with several interesting modifications. The builder (from the Potomac River region of MD) must have had his very own walnut tree as it was walnut framed throughout. The leeboards were six feet by two of solid 5 or 6 quarter walnut, finished bright, dutch style. Magnificant items. The sail plan was modified by Fenwick Williams and he shortened the z and moved it aft. Lengthened the Main moved it forward a notch, and added a bowspirit. This kept the balance and allowed one to shorten the doghouse and increase the cockpit subtantially as well as adding a steering cockpit aft of a bridge deck (on which the z was stepped) with an old gray marine under on centerline. Kept the short gaffs -- nothing like a z gaff to fly the flag from.

needed a bit of wind to get going, but once on her way she was a grand boat. All my young kids would play in that big cockpit while I was pleasently isolated aft futzing with the trim. you could trim the helm either with sail or leeboard position.

Hope you get as much pleasure from your new meadowlark. the new owner of my old one has her on the hard at a marina in Cambridge MD if you want to come take a look someday. He is almost finished with the second rebuild.

[uncas]

Dunbarpm...Sent you an E-mail...Uncas

[shoal_draft_fantasies]

Does any one recognize this boat, who designed her, or other knowledge?
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mhr/FWYC/galop18.jpg

I found this picture while googling images for "leeboard" and it appears this boat was somewhere on Lake Ontario ( though that is a guess based on other pictures at the site I found this on.)

Any way, I'd really like to learn more about this boat... any suggestions?