I did it again, bought a sailing dory today.

[johngsandusky]

Yes, I'm a boataholic. I bought a ply-lap swampscott sailing dory today. 18', sprit- yawl. A nice guy in Ct built it 20-some years ago with his brother. I wanted something roomier than my melonseed, I found it. It's beamier than most dories, I'll let you know how it sails.

[katey]

This thread is useless without pictures!

[boylesboats]

This thread is useless without pictures!

Yeah, tell me about it :D

Where's some pictures.. We wanna see what it is..:D

[johngsandusky]

Might happen, but probably not, sorry. I'm not patient with computers. You can put all the url-cut-click-link instructions you want. I don't understand. The seller emailed me a pic. Maybe I'll email it to someone to post. Volunteers?

[StevenBauer]

Sure, sent it to me: bauerdad@gmail.com



Steven

[Thorne]

Sounds sweet! Congrats.

[johngsandusky]

Thanks Steven, I sent it. Thanks Thorne.
I sailed her today. She's a little skittish, due to light weight and a rockered bottom, I think. I need to tweek the rigging a little. She doesn't seem fast, but not slow either. Handy, in spite of her tiny rudder. Next time I'll try some ballast.

[JimD]

Next time I'll try some ballast.

I bet a couple hundred pounds will work wonders. Now about those pics? Steven?

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Dove, of which I am now the steward (from JCSOH) has 300 pounds of internal lead ballast, and 220 pounds on her skeg keel. She likes wind, the more the merrier, and it doesn't affect anything she does.

[boylesboats]

I don't see any picture(s) here

[StevenBauer]

Here she is:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/johnsailingdory.jpg

[Paul Pless]

Nice! a bit unusual of a rig for that hull though. Still nice!

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Cute - sort of Drascombe (ish) - where's the rudder?

[johngsandusky]

The rudder is in a trunk, just forward of the mizzen. The upper part fits in the trunk, with a wooden stock running through it. The lower part combines a small skeg and a small ruddder. The boat has a large daggerboard. I know the typical dory rig is a sloop, I wanted a split rig. Yesterday the breeze was light to gentle, she stands up ok, but changes trim quickly with crew movement. I'll start with maybe 40 lbs of water ballast, and see how it goes.

[Thorne]

Very Drascombe-like, including the rudder setup. Looks like a sweet sailor, but try lots of ballast -- and shift it around to see where it works the best.

Does she have raised floorboards -- if so, you could consider making / buying some sheet lead that would fit between the bottom planking and floorboards. That way you get ballast but it's not a toe-breaker, and it can be removed for trailering, cleaning, etc.

[Lew Barrett]

I'll throw in a "nice" here too!

[pcford]

This thread is useless without pictures!

The colleagues here always want images.

Anyone with much knowledge of boats now that pictures, especially the snapshots variety normally seen here, are next to useless for ascertaining condition of a boat....one can get the general configuration...which one can get in a verbal description.

[boylesboats]

Nice, just about as common as the next Swampscott.
Unless a personal up close look.

[johngsandusky]

Well, if anyone wants a closer look, they can come to Long Island and examine it at length. I'll even take you sailing.