[Public-List] old wooden boats

[Gordon Laco]

Hope you find her.

There is one named Rosemary Ruth built of steel in '78 that is in New York
now - I heard she may be offered for sale.  Dark green hull, wooden spars
etc  nice boat. 

G


> My first "real" boat was a 34 ft wooden Tancook Island (Nova Scotia)
> schooner, built  on Mahone Bay in 1928. Belonged at one time to Arthur
> Fawcett, who the Annapolis contingent will recall as the founder of
> Fawcett's boat chandlry.  Name was Brigadoon.  When Joan had twins we
> had to sell her, that was in 1965. She went to as man named Nicholson,
> who lived in Stonington, Connecticut, who re-planked her and re-engined
> her. Years later we all, Joan, myself and the twins, had a day-sail on
> the boat off  Noank. Nicholson has since died and rumor has it that she
> is still sailing (maybe laid-up) in the vicinity of New London.  When we
> had her she was white, but the traditional Tancook colors are a green
> hull with yellow strake. She was gaff-rigged and had a topmast and we
> set a topsail. Very attractive character boat. I wonder if anyone on
> Long Island Sound has ever seen her and if she still exists?
> (Brigadoon II is my Alberg)
> 
> - Gordon White, Deltaville, VA
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