Interesting Boats

[wikakaru]

The schooner Angelique sails out of the fog near The Sugar Loaves, Fox Islands Thorofare, Maine, June, 2018.

--Jim

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[wikakaru]

Skive is the upward angle of the boom. You tend to see it more in on older boats with long booms. Keeps the end of the boom out of the water when reaching and running. It can also look lovely with a raked mast. For some good examples take a look at British pilot cutters and the Pride of Baltimore. Or just scroll up and take a look at the picture of Vela.

I think this is the word you are looking for. I found it in the Nautical Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 1963 by Arthur Young:

STEEVE. A bowsprit steeves more or less according is it is elevated more or less from the horizontal. The Steeve is the angle which it makes with the horizon. (Dana's Seaman's Manual.)

--Jim

[John Stone]

Skive is the upward angle of the boom. You tend to see it more in on older boats with long booms. Keeps the end of the boom out of the water when reaching and running. It can also look lovely with a raked mast. For some good examples take a look at British pilot cutters and the Pride of Baltimore. Or just scroll up and take a look at the picture of Vela.

I think this is the word you are looking for. I found it in the Nautical Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 1963 by Arthur Young:

STEEVE. A bowsprit steeves more or less according is it is elevated more or less from the horizontal. The Steeve is the angle which it makes with the horizon. (Dana's Seaman's Manual.)

--Jim

Well...it’s possible. Who knows. I kind of like skive. LOL. Maybe it’s just a stonerism.

[wikakaru]

Here's a boat I find really interesting: the 22' schooner Mercury. She is certainly the smallest, and also the only undecked schooner I've ever seen. You can't tell from my photo that she's undecked, but this article from the local online newspaper has a photo that shows some of the inside of the hull: https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/roc ... els/126273.

In this photo, taken in August, 2019, Mercury sails past Rockland Harbor Lighthouse.

--Jim

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[wikakaru]

I found it in the Nautical Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 1963 by Arthur Young:

That should read 1863. I edited my original post but for some reason the change isn't appearing.
--Jim

[John Stone]

Jim
That is a great photo. Perfectly framed. Beautiful. And what a truly interesting boat. A lovely transom—kind of reminds me of the 12M Intrepid. Cool story. Abandoned in a field for a decade. Neil Parker sounds like an interesting and capable character.

[wikakaru]

The 31-foot Finnish Hai-class sloop "Mako" beats out into West Penobscot Bay, July 2020.

--Jim

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[John Stone]

Jim,
More great photos. I don't know how you could improve them. Good to see folks are out sailing. Can you add anything about the boat or some interesting tidbits when you took the photos? What do you like about the photos?

Thanks for posting. Anyone else have photos to share?

[wikakaru]

Jim,
More great photos. I don't know how you could improve them. Good to see folks are out sailing. Can you add anything about the boat or some interesting tidbits when you took the photos? What do you like about the photos?

Thanks for posting. Anyone else have photos to share?

Thanks, John. It's easy to take good photos when the subjects are so beautiful to begin with. The boats do all the work for me.

I too would love to see what photos other members of this forum can come up with.

Because few boats are out sailing this year I am digging into my archives for many of the shots I am posting. This summer I have only seen 2 or 3 schooners and a few small classic yachts in total; in a typical summer I might be able to see 2 or 3 at any given time on any given day. A few days ago I was in Rockland, Maine, and saw that most of the schooner fleet still has their winter shrink-wrap covers on. All the classic events have been canceled this year--the Friendship Sloop Rendezvous, the Camden Classic Regatta, and the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta. It's slim pickings for boat photography this year. My hope is that next year all the boats I usually see will return to the water with renewed enthusiasm, but my fear is that this will be the death blow that finishes many dreams and projects that were already teetering on the edge of viability. But enough about all that.

The photos I am posting were taken in passing as we sailed our many boats over the years. For some I have never met their owners so I can add little; others are locals who I know or at least see regularly and can add a bit more information. I will try to provide more details as I post more photos...that is, if people want to see more.

Smooth sailing,

--Jim

[John Stone]

I was down at the boatyard this morning preparing the FR for the inbound TS Isaias. I saw the 50’ MV Rebel just hauled out and being set down on her jack stands. She is an Elco Flat Top Commuter Yacht. Built in 1928.

If you’re interested, here is a link to read a little more about her.

https://www.rebelelco.com/gallery

They don’t make them like that any more. Very narrow with a long waterline. Beautiful lines. Interestingly there is a bit of a resurgence of interest in this design style. You can see it in Steve Dashew’s FPB design and if you dig a little he references it in his description. The Sundeer line of narrow fast sailboats seems to show it too. Want a new idea, read an old book.

[John Stone]

With nearly every adult in the world, and most kids I might add, carrying a phone with a camera is this really all the pictures of interesting boats we can collectively post?

[Jim Walsh]

Last year I met Harley, Jen, and their daughter Sophia in Bermuda. They were completing a multi-year circumnavigation aboard their Sundeer “Kailani”. A great, and fast, passage maker. I was invited aboard for dinner one evening. I mentioned that Orion would comfortably fit in their main salon.....with room to spare. Harley is the grandson of the legendary styling chief of the Corvette, Harley Earl.

This photo was taken as Kailani was leaving St. George’s on 6/15/19, headed for Newport

[John Stone]

Ok. Y’all twisted my arm. Here is another boat.

This is a very cool boat. She is also in the boatyard. She is called Cherokee. She is a wood Huckins 65 Fairform Flyer and was built in 1948. She has twin Rolls Royce water jets. Look how flat the bottom is and how shallow the draft! She looks fast and is ideally suited to operate in the shallow waters of Pamlico Sound. I really admire that 1940s and 50s design style. Most modern power yachts don’t have lines anywhere near that lovely.

[wikakaru]

I fear you have been seduced by the dark side, John. First you install an engine into a perfectly good sailboat, and now you are posting glowing photos of...POWER boats. I must restore some balance to the force.

Here is the 35-foot (LOD) Friendship sloop Sazerac sailing in Rockland Harbor, Maine during the 2019 Friendship Sloop Homecoming Regatta. Sazerac was built by Wilbur A. Morse, one of the premier builders (some would say THE premier builder) of Friendship sloops, in 1913.

If you are not familiar with Friendship sloops, they are often called the "original Maine lobster boat". Before there were engines in boats, this type of craft was used for lobster fishing. They were considered well-suited for that purpose because one man could handle the boat by himself, hauling lobster traps under sail. They had low freeboard, making hauling traps easier, were stable, and had lots of room for carrying traps and catch. With topsails and jibs set they could be "wicked fast" even in a light breeze. Once gasoline power replaced sail power for fishing, these boats were converted to yachts for the wealthy "rusticators" who summered in Maine. The conversion usually involved adding a cabin and interior to the boat, and cutting down the rig from a prodigious powerhouse to the more stunted rig like the one that Sazerac now flies.

My wife and I were fortunate to be invited aboard the Friendship sloop Tannis during the regatta, and we took this photo of Sazerac from Tannis during the regatta.

--Jim

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[John Stone]

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to comment on that!

Powerboats out number sailboats here 10:1. And most sailboats here are modern uninspiring designs. There is a lot of wood powerboat building going on in these parts. Mostly composite strip built sport fishing boats along with traditional wood commercial trawlers and shrimpers. We have a maritime museum though with some lovely sharpie designs displayed.

Truth be told I love all boosts. If it floats and has nice lines I am inspired.

The boatyard is packed due to the hurricane. Headed out to check on the Far Reach.

P.S. That’s a beautiful friendship sloop. You are also an outstanding photographer.