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MERLIN at the Bradley & Waters Marine Railway
Page 24

The Wizards of Stony Creek

by Randall Peffer · Photographs by Tyler Fields

Synchronicity,” muses 70-year-old Jonathan “Johnny” Waters, sharing coffee from a thermos with his 34-year-old daughter, Emilie Waters Harris. It is late summer 2022, and we’re sitting in weathered wooden lawn chairs on the wharf at Bradley & Waters Marine Railway. It has been the Waters’s wharf since 1985, and their railway. It’s the last bit of working waterfront in the village of Stony Creek, nestled in Connecticut’s Thimble Islands.

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Norwalk Islands Sharpie
Page 56

The Norwalk Islands Sharpies

by Randall Peffer

When Jacob saw POULE D’EAU, his skepticism began melting away. He liked the sleek, hard-chined hull and the raked, unstayed, cat-ketch rig. What truly blew him away, however, was his first sail with her seller, Dr. Peter Sawyer. “It was fast as all hell,” he gushed.

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The sharpie ketch EGRET
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The Oceanic EGRET

by Bill Schwicker

EGRET is moving too fast. The ocean bottom is 2,000' below the sharpie’s flat bottom as successive seas rise 10' high astern, too steep and too close for comfort above the open, shallow cockpit where I sprawl, legs braced, one hand on the mainsheet cleat, the other on the tiller, one eye forward and one eye aft, as sapphire rollers carry us in sun-spangled slaloms of amazing speed toward the east coast of Florida.

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A 42-foot Catamaran

As a cruising sailor, I have noted for many years the increasing numbers of cruising catamarans. Despite the fact that all my cruising has been in monohulls, multihulls have always been of interest to me.

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CAPSIZE!

I just read Dudley Dix’s excellent analytical account of his capsize in BLACK CAT during the 2014 Cape to Rio Race in the current issue (#149) of Professional Boatbuilder. Dudley Dix is a South African Yacht designer now living in the US (Virginia).

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Cradle Sharpie

Builder Name
Kevin Moroney

Kevin Moroney of Cape Coral, Florida, was building an 18′ modified sharpie skiff when his grandson, Colin, was born in Denver, Colorado, last year.

SHARPIE

Builder Name
Brothers' Boatworks

Richard Goy of Brothers' Boatworks writes, "The boat is constructed of marine plywood and coated with fiberglass cloth and epoxy resin. It is powered by a 70 lb. thrust-modified Minn-Kota electric motor mounted under the rear deck.

Sharpie Skiff

Builder Name
Volunteers in the Maritime program, Historic Spanish Point, Osprey, Florida

Historic Spanish Point is an archaeological site and museum on 30 acres of water front on Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey, Florida. HSP runs a maritime boat building and repair program on the original site of Frank Guptill’s 1890s boat yard.

Sailboats - Cruising

Sharpie 31.5 EGRET

Designer
Reuel B. Parker

Sharpie 31.5′ EGRETL.O.A.: 31′ 6 ½″SPARRED LENGTH: 35′ 6″L.W.L.: 26′ 3″BEAM: 8′ 6″DRAFT: 1′ 2 ¼″ /4′ 8″SAIL AREA : (Depends on rig)DISP.: 5,000# (approximate, for cruising)BALLAST: 1,500 lbs. lead, inside; additional to trim as needed.