Sunday, March 1, 2015

Design 1493 Zarabanda

Sunday, March 1, 2015 0 comments

This little sloop was designed for Geoffrey Pattinson, rear Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club of England and built by Tucker Brown of Burnham on Crouch, England. She was designed under the R.O.R.C. Rule.

Launched in 1960 she was destined for immediate shipment to Australia to compete in the Syndey-Hobart Race of that year. Here is a published report regarding that race. Please double click for zoom.


The design is interesting in a couple of details. The short forward overhang seems to have necessitated the use of the bow sprit and must have been done to obtain a favorable rating. Placing the ice box in the cockpit is somewhat unusual but has some logic. One only accessed the box to get what one is about to eat or drink. By placing it in the cockpit it makes it very easy to load (and to drain above the waterline) and gains valuable space below. One could argue the box could have been placed where the chart table is and used as such but perhaps there is a swinging stool and foot space there instead.

Here are the plans.


The Lines are quite pleasant with a powerful turn of the bilge and a nice run aft (see buttocks below).


Principal Dimensions
LOA 38-5"
LWL 28-0"
Beam 10-3"
Draft 5-11"
Displacement 18,600 lbs
Ballast 7,000 lbs (outside) 300 lbs (inside)
Sail Area 699 sq ft

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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Pond Prowler

Saturday, February 28, 2015 0 comments

Pond Prowler

Redesigned with padded seats, fishing rod holders, removable dry storage box and even more floor space, Uncle Bucks 10 Pond Prowler is the perfect boat for quietly reaching those hard-to-reach fishing spots in total comfort. Constructed from rugged, high-impact ABS plastic, the Pond Prowler has internal cut-to-fit block foam for flotation and a wood-reinforced, ribbed floor for strength. The easy-to-maneuver Pond Prowlers deep rib hull ensures the boat remains balanced even in rougher water with two anglers standing and constantly shifting their weight. Incredibly easy to transport, the 10 Pond Prowler weighs only 130 lbs. and is 48 wide which is the same width of a full-size trucks bed between the wheel-wells. Pond Prowlers are pre-wired for a trolling motor and are outfitted with corrosion-resistant aluminum seat frames, padded folding swivel fishing seats, molded in trays, fishing rod holders, dry storage box and the rear metal transoms are reinforced with wood.

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

Pond Prowler

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Planning For A Yacht Charter Getaway Travel

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If you happen to be organizing in your next getaway elsewhere or maybe in your own area, countless forget about the actual pleasures that feature unwinding about the ocean. This may be because of the cost required. A best trip to help enjoy their break as well as consider in a lot of outdoors in addition to get pleasure from high quality time frame with family members and also close friends could be to take into account crewed hire yachts to the getaway.

Buying a yacht is extremely expensive, even though a great investment. If about to catch a yachting aficionado and also dont need to be able to private a yacht, yacht hire may be the solution to go. Prior to you rent a new yacht, youd probably should know whether your yacht leasing shall be a luxury private yacht or even the very first thing much smaller with regard to each day out and about with seaside using your friends. You may possibly also desire to contemplate various other reasons in regards towards the yacht just like existing place along with services available, you can even need to make sure your own boat might brave virtually any the wind condition, should you be leasing the item for your race.

For a really particular event, you could possibly such as to take into consideration luxury crewed charter yachts to ensure that all your current demands will likely become used care of. The crew normally includes prepared people who will be sure your safety all of which also cook along with preserve that private yacht clean. What improved route to spend a holiday break at sea!

You would likely have got to assess the offers of different organizations supplying boat rental providers throughout order to assure that you become the top cost in addition to your boat by using each of the comforts to fit your conditions as well as specifications.

In instance you want to to be on a getaway abroad, believe discover which a great deal of take a trip and also tourism websites offer excellent bundles on yacht leases in several nations. Whether or perhaps possibly not that youre going to Greece, Spain or Australia, youll be sure you discover some sort of organization in which handles luxury yacht nightly rental facilities with whom you will end up qualified to produce booking. Make specific you decide to do and so inside advance, particularly if you happen to are venturing while in high season. A yacht rental business can be taught specialists to work with you generate the best decision for anyone who is unsure concerning precisely what you want.

Its particularly crucial that you have a educated team if you possibly be boating throughout unfamiliar waters. Any collection to get crewed charter yachts calls for cautious planning to make sure that it will probably possibly be a getaway that will become remembered for just a lifetime. A well-planned journey might most likely make particular you will be sailing on easy seas no matter whether the weather conditions gets hard or even not. The site that you just tend to consider your holiday will use a impact on the sort of motorboat people charter, when you can get each and every motorised in addition to non-motorised (sailboats) to pick from.


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Used Wooden Boats For Sale

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Friday, February 27, 2015

Bruces Pontoons

Friday, February 27, 2015 0 comments
We were planning to use Bruces pontoon boat that he scored somewhere around the Lake Shasta area as the base for our shantyboat.  In fact, it was Bruces pontoon boat score that gave us the greenlight for this project.  Not so sure about this now.  Every boat has a buoyancy, a certain weight that it can support safely.  Bruce writes:
I dont know how easy it is to calculate this. During high school geometry I had a crush on the Castellucio twin sisters (Karyn and Kathleen) and most of my mental energies were taken up by trying to flirt with the two of them rather than on the substance of the coursework. I havent really revisited the subject of geometry (nor, alas, the Castellucios) since that time.

The pontoons are sort of irregular shaped, they are flat on the top and sort of u-shaped on the bottom. The top to bottom dimension is 17 1/2". They are 18 1/2" wide.  As Ive mentioned before, the platform is 16 long. The pontoons extend another 18" to the rear of the platform. They also extend about 24" to the front of the platform. However, in the front they are tapering down to be much more narrow, expecially in that last foot.

Okay, Im gonna make some assumptions about Bruces pontoon boat.  Doing some crazy math that requires me to get out my geometry book again, I guesstimate the total cross-sectional area of the pontoon is about 2 sq ft.  To get the volume, we multiply that times the length. Well say that is 16 feet + another 1.5 ft at the back, and another maybe 1 foot at the front. For 18.5 feet. So the volume of one pontoon is perhaps 37 cu ft.

We just look at one pontoon, because we want to make sure that the capacity we work with never exceeds the floatation of one pontoon, lest a shift in weight drive it under the water and flip the craft. This situation even has an ominous-sounding name:  Pontoon Effect.  Plus, if you think about two pontoons, you want them both no more than half in the water.

To get the floatation, we multiply the volume times the weight of the same amount of water. Thanks, Archimedes.  One cu ft of fresh water weighs 62.4 lbs. So the flotation of one pontoon is 37 cu ft  * 62.4 lbs/cu ft = 2308 lbs. So the weight of the boat, plus the passengers, plus their gear and stuff, plus some margin of safety 10 to 25% should not exceed 2308 lbs.

Probably too tiny for our heavy shantyboat. However, we can build Bruces pontoon out to be a little hillbilly sun porch to accompany our shantyboat.  Something like this...



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20 One Design Design 256

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This interesting design looks a lot like a Lightning but with a fixed keel. The cast iron keel looks like a Scheel keel. Heres the construction plan.


We dont know much about the design. The files are entitled Corinthian 20 Class. It obviously influenced the Lightning as this is design #256 and the Lightning is design #265, designed just half a year later.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 20-2"
LWL 18-0"
Beam 6-4"
Draft 3-4"
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Design 2148 Noryema IX

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Noryema IX was constructed of welded aluminum by a joint venture building team. Walter Huisman of Holland built the hull and deck and A. H. Moody & Son, Ltd. of Southampton, England finished her. The year was 1972. She is an Admirals Cup racing yacht.

Here are the plans.


Principal Dimensions
LOA 52-0"
LWL 40-0"
Beam 14-1"
Draft 7-11"
Displacement 33,453 lbs
Ballast 19,500 lbs
Sail Area 1,142 sq ft


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