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Sailboats - Daysailers
Cape Cod Oystering Sharpie
Builder Name:
Dr. Mark Jobe
Miss Crab was built out of Cypress and Mahogany on Oak frames along the Tennessee River.
Sailboats - Daysailers
Wooden Drascombe Lugger
I've owned this boat for 2 years now. I'm not sure when she was built and has no makers mark on it but it is very well built and in good condition.
Launching of Kjerstin
Builder Name:
Kristoffer Albrecht
Living by of The Gulf of Finland I wanted to have a small boat that I could easily launch in the spring and take up before the ice covers the sea in the winter. I designed and built the lapstrake boat Kjerstin, named after my grandmother.
NEMAH SHARPY SKIFF
Designer
Tracy O'Brien
NEMAH features a stable, flat bottomed, sharpie type hull that can handle up to 3 passengers and a small outboard up to 5hp. Sides are ¼” plywood and the bottom is 3/8” plywood. A trussed gunnel rail insures hull stiffness.
Meghan Sailing Skiff
Designer
Tracy O'Brien
Meghan has a constant deadrise V-bottom hull with a capacity of 1-2 passengers and features for & aft flotation chambers. Her rig consists of a 16ft free standing mast, 9′5″ wishbone boom and 65 square ft sail.
Sailboats - Daysailers
20 sq.m/ Dragon class
Year Built:
1931
Dragon class was first designed by the Master designer Johan Anker as a 20 sq.m. The first build had a different rigg and are now called B-Dragon. My boat is #3 build by Hjalmar Johanson in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1931.
Sailboats - Daysailers
MYST
MYST is an Oughtred Elfyn, built in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and now sailing Puget Sound from Whidbey Island, Washington, USA. She features a lug rig, daggerboard, internal box rudder, and, ornate dragon stem and stern pieces. She rows beautifully and sails well.
John Gardner Chamberlain Gunning Dory
Builder Name:
John Gardner
Through connections within The Traditional Small Craft Association, I received word that there was a dory built by John Gardner, looking for a new home just north of my home on the West Coast of Florida.