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Thursday, September 14, 2017

15'6x5' trailerable micro cruiser

Currently in the Shop.  Possibly transportable in the back of a pickup truck, but a micro trailer cruiser.
Minimal rocker to reduce slap under the bow.

moderate flare to the sides and slight V bottom at the stern.

water tight forward bulkhead for bouncy and ground tackle storage
Modified sharpie hull, flat bottom forward with a slight V in the stern.  Inner chine log, keelson, skeg, shallow outer keel and rub strips port and starboard.  Stem, forward bulkhead, mid station, transom.  (Stern bulkhead, and aft mid station to be added).  In whale/shelf, gunwhale/rub rail, side decks and coaming.  Benches for and aft from transom to midships.
     Hoping to have a split rig, either Cat-Ketch, or Yawl.  Two rowing stations, and sculling notch.  Bottom epoxy and fabric, either glass or Dynel.....  Center board (weighted).

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

New Jib

A nice pre-Spring day and I got the boat out of the barn to fit the jib I just finished sewing.  The jib is made from a piece of scrap from an old sail.  The halyard goes thru a bee hole at the top of the mast.  The luff of the sail is roped, with eyes spliced at the head and tack.  The clue also has an eye sewn into it.
This is also the new, taller, mast.  Today I made the pad eyes that I will use for sheet leads for the jib.  FUN!