east shore stickup

[fish948]

has anybody had any experience with or thoughts about reuel parkers 16ft. east shore stickup sharpie ?

[Vince Brennan]

In English, Bittë?

[Thorne]

Gosh, at first I thought you were talking about the recent spate of robberies here in Oakland on Lake Merritt..

;0 )


No experience, but the stick-up rig sure looks strange...

http://www.parker-marine.com/unicornphotobig.jpg
http://www.parker-marine.com/sharpie16page.htm

[andrewdarius]

There's one that usually makes it to the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival every year in St Michael's, Maryland the first weekend of October. I'm not sure where you are, but try to make it if you can.

Andy

[fish948]

am on sunshine coast in queensland australia
sure would like your impressions of it

[andrewdarius]

There was a write-up in WoodenBoat a couple of years ago. Try searching the index for the issue number. I remember her receiving favorable comments. Here are a few images I have from the MASCF...

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b8d725b3127ccec55cfb9f818f00000040O00BatGzhwzcMQ e3nww/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D480/ry%3D320/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b8d725b3127ccec55d438e20be00000040O00BatGzhwzcMQ e3nww/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D480/ry%3D320/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b8d725b3127ccec55d7cf3604400000040O00BatGzhwzcMQ e3nww/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D480/ry%3D320/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b8d725b3127ccec55c06de401800000040O00BatGzhwzcMQ e3nww/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D480/ry%3D320/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b8d725b3127ccec55dea7de1b100000040O00BatGzhwzcMQ e3nww/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D480/ry%3D320/

[davebrown]

Love the hull. Looks great. But the rigging looks complicated to a beginning sailor like me. I saw the reference to this boat either in the The Sharpie Book or Chappelle's Small Sailing Craft, I forget which--any secondary sources for plans for the hull around?

[andrewdarius]

According to the online index, WoodenBoat #140 has the write-up.

[fish948]

thanks for sharing those wonderful photo,s andrew i have always loved the look of sharpies...and read from books by chapelle and parker..depth of water is on the short side where i sail...and that keel looks fairly deep, but i read that they should be sailed healed..so i will have to take the next step and when the local authority [the missus] give me the green light ..build it.
thanks again

[Karl A. Hilbert]

Fish,
I am sure you read the part about it supposedly being able to go to windward with the just the "stick-up".

[fish948]

yes read that in reuel,s book thxs

[Horace]

Chapelle discusses the rig briefly and favorably in American Small Sailing Craft. Bolger, in 103 Sailing Rigs, adds to the positive list several negative traits, including a tendency to "depress the bow...on all points of sailing" and awkward deployment and sparring. But it certainly is hard to look away, isn't it?

[coelacanth2]

I purchased the plans for one last year, tho' it will have to wait a bit. Son got hooked on the Nutshell pram at the Woodenboat School, and we picked up the kit yesterday at the factory in Annapolis.
However...the boatshop at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum built one last year, although traditional, planked sides and bottom rather than ply. I discussed the boat with the chief of the shop and he was very favorable in his opinion, but noted that the boat was a bit undercanvassed and that the plans had been changed to address that issue. He indicated it sailed well, and was quite quick.