The perfect small boat for me?

[MJC]

http://www.boat-links.com/PT/PT2003/GraceB-1.jpg

... might be a Crotch Island pinky!

Any body know more, like lines/plans/sketches?

I'll have to do more research, but with corporate spyware loaded, I'm reluctant to enter some of the descriptive terms for this lovely little boat into Google (although the damage may already be done).

[ 12-10-2004, 08:05 AM: Message edited by: MJC ]

[Venchka]

According to the information from the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival picture caption, she is owned by local builder Ernie Baird.

Here you go. I don't have spyware.

Grace B (http://www.woodenboat.org/festival/Guide/guide_grace-b.htm)

Grace B. was built in Port Townsend by Ernie Baird and launched in 1985. Her lines and offsets are given in Howard Chapelle’s American Small Sailing Craft. Chapelle took the lines off an existing half model around 1930. He believed the first boats made from the model were built and sailed in Casco Bay Maine around 1900. He named the model for its place of construction (Crotch Island) and its hull shape (pinky – a corruption of a Dutch term for a double ended boat). She is 26 feet long and rigged as a cat-ketch with spritsails. Grace has cruised from Port Townsend to Seattle, Barkeley Sound, the San Juan's, the Gulf Islands and into the Strait of Georgia as far as Lasquiti Island. She once made it from Beecher bay on the south side of Vancouver Island to Point Wilson (a distance of 40 miles) in 5 hours. She presently lives in Mystery Bay on Marrowstone Island.

http://www.woodenboat.org/festival/Guide/Guide%20images/2004/Grace-B.jpg

Enjoy.

Wayne
In the Swamp. :D

[ 12-08-2004, 02:47 PM: Message edited by: Venchka ]

[Dave Fleming]

Met Ernie in 1995 when visiting Tugboat Dave.
We drove over to Pt.Townsend and had a nice chat with him. Ernie showed us the boat. Fine job he did on it. Some of those streches of water he has sailed her on can be 'white knuckle' territory.
Ernie has a nice yard on what was the southern end of the waterfront.

[John Kohnen]

Originally posted by MJC:
... would obviously be a Crotch Island pinky!

Any body know more, like lines/plans/sketches?
...
The lines were published in H. I. Chapelle's "American Small Sailing Craft" and plans are available cheap from the Smithsonian Institution.

John

[Meerkat]

Hmmm... sweet boat!

If you like sweet double enders, here's another:
http://www.swallowboats.com/storm17/storm17-1.jpg

It's a kit, the "Storm 17" from http://www.swallowboats.com

Edited to add: I just noticed that they've finally posted a price for the "Storm 17" kit - depending on exchange rate, it's in the neighborhood of $5800 delivered! Includes sails and bronze fittings.

[ 12-08-2004, 05:29 PM: Message edited by: Meerkat ]

[Hwyl]

The schooner on the other side of the dock is pretty nice too. Needs a bigger ensign and sail covers. Should work well for the womanizer in you.

[Gerry S.]

The schooner is "Barlovento" (sp?). A very fast, pretty boat.

[MJC]

Well, I broke down and went to our state library (more about this in a later thread). Chapelle is dry reading.

It turns out that the island with the unmentionable name has been renamed Cliff Island, any Mainers know the story?

These boats are also known as Casco Bay double enders. This is a much easier name for me to work with.

What size are Chapelle's plans when ordered from the Smithsonian?