I have just acquired this little dinghy for £50
what do you think chaps?
Somehow I don’t see this chick growing up to be a Fisher 25…
Quite a find, and a good man shed project. Good luck and enjoy.
You’ll have it right-and-Bristol-fashion in no time. And it actually has a mount for a mast!! Woohoo!!
No centerboard? Or is that a swing keel trunk? I didn’t see a slot in the keel.
Linndy Water.
(Anagram of Dylan Winter)
Could be useful to use when dealing with HMR&C, VAT, CSA. etc….
Normally I’m against puns for boat names, but I like that one for the irony as you putt-putt past with sails furled…
‘A scow, in the original sense, is a flat-bottomed boat with a blunt bow, often used to haul bulk freight; cf. barge. The etymology of the word is from the Dutch schouwe, meaning such a boat.’
Any Dutch ideas?
As Dylan enjoys a good fry-up, maybe The Frying Dutchman?
When you have it home and worked out what you need to do, especially rebuilding the centreboard (or plate) case, hopefully you will share your thoughts. Re the plate, that is if you go for a metal one, why not adopt the handle type lifting lever as used on the various classes of Solent Scows. Just a thought.
I didn’t see a slot in the keel for a centerboard or daggerboard. I suspect they used the same mold for a rowing-version, and a sailing-version with just a change in shape to the trunk-mold to support the seat. She has a nice shape…
Amazing how flexible the Optimist sail-rig is, it will propel almost anything under 12-ft.
Looks like a lugger with the mast stepped forward. I have a dinghy like that. It has a wee bowsprit and takes a Mirror rig. A mate of yours has just collected 2 Mirror rudders from me. Would they be for this project?
He’s doing me a favour, helping to get rid of lots of surplus boaty sundries. I’ve sent him an email with photos of a Mirror mast (aluminium) and sails, and a third rudder, that I have (I was going to open a rudder museum).
I have managed to hoard so much random boat crap that I am forced to rent a council lock up to keep it in! I have sails for boats I’ve never owned (eg tatty Enterprise main) plus boxes and buckets of totally random fittings, shackles and blocks. If I find a boaty thing being junked or washed up, I can’t resist stripping it & keeping all the screws, even the de-zincing brass ones! There must be professional help for me somewhere in the health service.
… and then one buys new screws, etc – I like the de-zinced ones, and I may even have some in a tin somewhere. It comes under the heading of OCD. There could be an OCD club formed, and maybe even an annual festival with everyone bring a load of their bits to show off some of their collection. Hey ho!
Got talking to a member of Erith YC who told me someone called Bill Owen has named his boat Bills Owing…