Plans for a 15' Rangeley?

[glesieutre]

Recently retired here, and looking for a project. A friend and I are contemplating building a couple of Rangeley boats. We've found plans (lines, tables of offsets) for a couple of Ellis 17-footers, but are interested in a 15-footer. We've seen 15' Rangeleys mentioned in a few places (Gardner, Cole), but have not come across any actual plans. (Only the idea of removing two feet amidships.) Could anyone point me towards some plans, along with their provenance (Ellis, Barrett, other designer)? Thanks!

 

[wet feet]

If you need to remove that amount from the boat documented by John Gardner,the simplest way is to scale the station spacing to 15/17ths of that which was given.Unless there is a restriction on the amount of space in which the boats are to be built it would be better to stick with the original.You might need the space for all the fish.....

 

[Dave G 9N]

I am a little leery of John Gradner's plans for freshwater boats as I have been told by someone who knew John and his work a lot better than most of us. John had a tendency to take a few liberties with some designs when he took their lines. I built a stripper using his lines taken for Rushton's Arkansas Traveler and published in National Fisherman. The boat was difficult to plank, which struck me as odd for a Rushton, having built a Saranack Laker and a UGO. I later compared John's lines to the ones from the Adirondack Museum and they were different by several inches. The original boat was very fast and very tender, and John's version had a less rounded section and was fairly stable. John added some flare towards the bow, which transitioned to tumblehome midships. Not a shape a cedar strip was willing to follow so I had to shave down some of the forms towards the ends to plank it.

I rowed a few Rangelys at Mystic Seaport about 50 years ago at the small craft workshop which was attended by John, but had yet to be named after him. They are nice pulling boats that compare favorably with the Adirondack guideboat, which is slightly lighter, faster and perhaps a little more tender, having more deadrise to the bottom. (I have a personal prejudice toward the guideboat.) Most Rangelys were square sterned, but I do see some double ended examples in an image search. The images from Mystic are thumbnails found online. Their store doesn't seem to be selling the plans, but it is possible that their website is beyond my navigational skills. I know they have plans, but whether they still sell them online I don't know. You used to have to go to the curatorial department in person, but that was pre-internet.
https://store.mysticseaport.org/med...525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/w/s/wsp_129_9-comp.jpg
https://store.mysticseaport.org/med...eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/w/s/wsp7_45-2.jpg


Some 15' plans.
Rangeley 15' Lake Boat - Newfound Woodworks https://newfound.com/product/15-rangeley-lake-trout-boat/
Rangeley Lake Boat | Wooden Boat https://www.woodenboat.com/boat-plans-kits/rangeley-lake-boat
Boat Models-Pulling Boats https://kevinmartin.wcha.org/pulling.php