First, check “parrotlect flickrstream” along the left margin here for my favorite 45 fotos from the start of the Great Chesapeake Schooner Race last week. I had posted some of them earlier, but put them up in the moment and without the benefit of my “foto-cleanup” tools.
Here is the real predecessor for this post . . . small specialized East coast designs. And here’s a question . . . guess the loa and beam of this vessel. Answer and fotos follow.
Some small craft are just beautiful . . . sweet
not to emphasize the “just” there. Seriously sweet lines here.
And here. And nearby but in the shadows was a twin called Puffin. And that vintage Johnson Sea horse 18 was attached to the
the prettiest motorboat I’ve ever seen. I don’t think that Johnson comes with the blender attachment seen here!!
This is Silk. Silk is a pushboat. Believe it or not, it’s the prime mover for a 65′ skipjack, and while hauling for oysters, Silk needs to be hanging high and dry. I regret I didn’t get a chance to look at the engine.
Stanley Norman dates from 1902. And that boom looks impossibly long.
And here’s a surprise, maybe. The vessel in the top foto here is a restored 1925 Hooper Island Draketail named Peg Wallace, measuring a belief-defying 37’6″ loa with a beam of only 6’8″!! I’d written of local Chesapeake and southern boats here almost two years ago, but this was my first encounter with a draketail. Scroll down to pete44’s comment here to learn his sense of the origin of the design.
I’d love to see her move through the water.
Draketail . . . named for a duck. Make way!
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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October 17, 2012 at 1:37 pm
JED
#3 – SCHWEET!
October 17, 2012 at 1:38 pm
JED
Boom NEEDS to be long if yer gonna be dredging and you need to power yer way through it with wind.
October 17, 2012 at 3:01 pm
tugster
i got that, and it flexed a lot too. i know flexing is good. i’d be interested in knowing how its wind-driven power converts to equivalent horsepower . . . i’ve neglected physics studies for 40+ years . . .
October 19, 2012 at 9:02 am
Rod Clingman
The Johnson is a 1958. Recogniazble by the paint scheme and tiller handle. The boat is likely a Chris Craft design sold as a kit through Popular Mechanics. Popular Mechanics had great success with this package in the late 50’s.
Great pictures as usual!
November 6, 2012 at 5:02 am
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