designers;what kind of boats do you have

[longliner45]

courios ;just was wondering what kind of boats you have ?

[SeaSpark]

This boat has been in our family for 32 years now, it has become increasingly difficult to part with her.

http://www.finot.com/bateaux/ancienb...e_hist_ang.htm

We have many a great adventure together.

[longliner45]

nice classical design,pretty boat.what is she made of ?

[Guillermo]

Good old Banjer 37 "MARIE", as evident. All info at the Club's pages.
Mostly used for family sailing in Galician waters.

[longliner45]

nice looking boat gilly ,,,how old is it?

[Guillermo]

Originally Posted by longliner45

nice looking boat gilly ,,,how old is it?

Thanks, longliner. She's a pretty old lady from 1971.

[SailDesign]

Personal boats are a Hasler/Primrose Peanut, and two kayaks. We had a Robert Stewart Triton for a while, but are downsizing (horrible word, but suitable here) the fleet.

SeaSpark - great boat. I remember when they first arrived at Cowes Week and everyone stood around scratching their heads at the French. Until the end of the first race

Guillermo - You have the sort of boat that 90% of America needs - they just don't know it yet ...

Steve

[SeaSpark]

Thank you SailDesign and Longliner the lady likes a compliment.

Have to admit Guillermo's Marie is good looking also and very well suited to the rough Galician coast. Visited the Galician waters 2x on a 42ft steel ketch, nice people good fish and no tourists.

[Robert Gainer]

Right now, I sail on a S&S design built by Tartan Marine, a Tartan 34c. My next trip in that boat is the Northwest cost of Greenland in 2007. In the past, my boats ranged from a 22 foot Carl Alberg design, a Sea Sprite that I went trans-Atlantic in single-handed, thirty-three years ago to a Carter design two-ton racer.
Robert Gainer

[marshmat]

Personal boat at the moment is a customized Bolger Diablo (4.7 m) that I built back in Grade 8. She's had a few mods since, including steel transom framing, various electrics and a new Johnson J30. Other boats I'm often commanding include a Sunfish, various canoes, old Springboks and a Peterborough Gemini 180. Plus a couple of cruises each week on the local car ferry. Nothing big- no budget for that, with the university sucking up cash as fast as it can be generated- but the small boats can be trailered with the Jetta and Voyager, and actually handle pretty well in nasty Georgian Bay weather.

[Billy Bones]

Originally Posted by SailDesign

... We had a Robert Stewart Triton for a while...

Steve

Hi Steve, Could you tell me more about your Steward Triton? I have been trying to track down Robert's son for some time but he has disappeared from view. I found plans for her in his Boatbuilding book, and DNGoodchild has reprinted the article from Rudder in which the plans and design brief first appeared.

Did you like her? How did she perform? Is my hunch correct that she is a conservative and perhaps friendlier Lightning?

Thanks for any comment you might have.

[Tad]

Currently we sail Ratty, 20' sheathed ply standing-lug cat ketch. My design, built by Barefoot Wooden Boats in 2001-02

[longliner45]

looks like a fun boat ,,,,,nice one tad

[SailDesign]

Originally Posted by BillyBones

Hi Steve, Could you tell me more about your Steward Triton?

She was a great little boat, but the fellow who built ours was, while a great carpenter, not a boatbuilder. Some things were less than ideal, although quite servicable, like a centreboard that was almost impossible to raise properly. With two, it could be done if the second person was quick, with one person it was "interesting", as was the language attending the ceremony.
Sailing-wise, she was a tender Lightning, which would have been alleviated with an aluminum stick somewhat, but she did (on one occasion) achieve 6 knots for a while.
Had we kept her, there would have been some additions - a small winch for the halyards and for the centreplate so the wife could do it on her own, a different mainsheet system, the alu stick, cam cleats for the jib-sheets, etc. All in all, a good family boat, even when the outhaul rips out of the boom and you have to bare-pole it back to the mooring. (don't ask!)
Steve

[Billy Bones]

Steve, thanks for that. While properly built she would be a lot of fun, it sounds like my search must go on.