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John Birch <Sunstone@idirect.com></tt>
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Sanders
<P>Another pretty classic is the Bluenose Class, cuddy cabin, narrow beam,
full keel sloop with spoon bow and counter stern. At 23' LOA, large cockpit,
daysailer and overnighter about $4000 CDN for a used model, made at Mahone
Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada to a design by Roue I believe.
<P>Worth a look if you are an Alberg Lover but looking to down size. Or
an Alberg 22?
<P>John
<P>SandersM@aol.com wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>From: SandersM@aol.com
<P>In a message dated 1/31/00 6:02:11 AM, RABBIT649@aol.com writes:
<P>> What's out there in traditional hulls from 20-28'
with a big cockpit
<BR>>and little or no cabin, for weekending and gunkholing a big
bay?
<P>Oh gosh, that depends. I spent an awful lot of time thinking about
just the
<BR>sort of boat you're looking for before before I bought my A30, so I
have no
<BR>lack of ideas on the subject. Since it takes us away from A30s,
we can take
<BR>the discussion off-list if others find it objectionable. But
since you asked
<BR>....
<P>If you're willing to shoulder the added cost and work of a wooden boat
-- and
<BR>it's not monumental when you get down to boats in this range -- then
there
<BR>are a vast array of options. Two easy ways to explore the wooden
boat
<BR>market: (1) WoodenBoat magazine, and (2) the Cannell, Page &
Payne brokerage
<BR>up in Camden, Maine. One object of my boatlust is called
a Laurinkoster, a
<BR>28-foot double-ended sloop from Sweden. Gray & Gray (York,
ME) has one
<BR>listed at $24k, and the listing and a drool-provoking photograph is
posted
<BR>online at
<P><A HREF="http://www2.yachtworld.com/boats/view_result.cgi?boat_id=29083&units=&listing_">http://www2.yachtworld.com/boats/view_result.cgi?boat_id=29083&units=&listing_</A>
<BR>id=1572&page=broker
<P>Another beauty is the Alerion-class sloop designed by Nat Herreshoff.
It's a
<BR>26-footer with a small cuddy cabin, very sweet lines. The originals
were
<BR>built in wood and gaff-rigged, but forget about them. For a while
in the
<BR>early 1980s, they were built cold-molded out on Martha's Vineyard by
a place
<BR>called Sanford Boats with a masthead rig; the boats combined the beauty
of
<BR>wood with the maintenance characteristics of a glass boat. Jimmy
Buffett
<BR>owned one, called Savannah Jane. More recently, Gary Hoyt has
tried to
<BR>reproduce the design in fibreglass, with mixed success. They
are pretty, but
<BR>I've heard that Tillotson-Pearson has skimped on the construction.
<P>Another very pretty boat in this class is called a Sakonnet 23, built
by Edey
<BR>& Duff, the smae people who built the Crockett-designed the Stone
Horse in
<BR>glass. The Sakonnet is currently in production; it's another
canoe-stern
<BR>sloop, no cabin, strictly a daysailor/gunkholer, draws less than 2
feet with
<BR>the board up, very pretty, but not cheap. I don't know if there
are any in
<BR>brokerage yet, but Edey & Duff would be a good place to start.
You can see
<BR>the boat and the usual propaganda at this URL:
<P><A HREF="http://www.by-the-sea.com/edey&duff/edsakon.html">http://www.by-the-sea.com/edey&duff/edsakon.html</A>
<P>Okay, now, if money's not an object, I've saved the best for last.
There is
<BR>a French builder of several traditional French boats in this range
that are
<BR>just exquisite: A 23-foot daysailor called Tofinou, and a 26-footer
with a
<BR>small cabin called Tadorne. You can see them at
<P><A HREF="http://www.classic-boats.com/">http://www.classic-boats.com/</A>
<P>Price? As J.P. Morgan once replied in response to a query as to
the asking
<BR>price of his yacht: "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."
<P>Okay, I could run on forever on this subject, and I apologize for doing
so
<BR>for the third time in three days. I should probably get back
to my day job
<BR>now.
<P>Sanders.
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