single-handling the gaff-pinky Tom Thanks for the pictures. Could I have your thoughts on single handling this boat? The size of the main is...
Here are two books on the subject: The American Fishing Schooners 1825-1935 - Howard I. Chapelle; Down to the sea: The fishing schooners of...
TCubed I think you are right. All of the pinkys that I have seen or read about are schooners. I belive that this sloop is Ted Brewer's...
I am thinking in having a gaff-rigged pinky sloop built. This is a classic sardine fishing boat from Maine. The desing is from Ted Brewer (here is...