Coolboats to admire
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Diarmuid
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That is quite the schooner farm in the background.
slug zitski
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The primary winches are blocked by the cockpit coaming
That boat can’t go stern too
no chance to use outboard sail leeds
for a boat to be world class ..form and function are critical
There's nothing on our usual float there (almost dead center in the photo, just above Carmela's dodger.) It's always sad to see the schooners being put away for the winter.
It was worse during covid, when they remained out of commission for an entire year.
The bow-in downeast boat with the flying bridge in the upper right, in line with the red boathouse, has the same name as our boat. We are sometimes mistaken for each other on the vhf.
In a lot of ways, Camden in the off-season is much nicer than in summer.
Kris Cringle
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We lived a whirlwind year in Camden spending most of the summer living on our 28' Cape Dory on your float (or one nearby). Nights that is, I spent Apr. thru July putting up a new building on the stilts left in the river above the falls. With an apartment upstairs and a fish market down, I spent the rest of the summer with hammer in one hand and filet knife in the other.
We quickly learned you could sell ice to Eskimos on that harbor.
Until October,...Then you bought Haddock for 4/ pound, ate a lot of it and sold the rest for 3 a pound.
But no regrets. It's a wonderful community and area to raise a family (our kids went into 1st and 2nd grade at the great public schools).
The town told me I didn't know fish. It said it was a design-builder and I was immediately building a new house and redesigning a delicatessen a few doors down.
We almost bought a building lot in Camden but then found an old house in Rockport that had been uninhabited for 20 years, and bought it. Only a mile away as the crow flies, its lightyears removed from tourist flow.
But that spring was a good one! Our bedroom (red arrow) had a deck overlooking the harbor. I'd see the sunrise over the schooners just about the time the ice-man cometh,..and dropped a couple of hundred pounds of ice on the deck below where hundreds of lobsters did circles in the tank fed by the harbor.
MauiPunter
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The new Grand Soleil 72 is gorgeous!! Wowsa.
Kris Cringle
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CRICKET, an old familiar claw foot tub that is still popular. She's getting there in light air. Hans Christian?
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Kris Cringle
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Wow, Elizabeth is nice! Here's a recently built 31'er that is a gem.
socalrider
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That rudder is astonishing.
Bull City
A fine fellow
Calling @Sail4beer! A nice looking 1962 Pearson Electra available in Oriental, NC.
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1962 Pearson Electra Sloop for sale - YachtWorld
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Sail4beer
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That’s a very nice condition boat!
Masthead vs. fractional too! Perfect for the single sailor to sail the inter coastal
Masthead vs. fractional too! Perfect for the single sailor to sail the inter coastal
Tumlaren?
Priscilla
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Sure is, she was rescued from a local clown after years of neglect and the purchaser Phil Holmes is a shipwright from Northland he gave her a real birthday in 12 months or so a pretty remarkable effort.
Tumlaren ELISABETH : An Update part 2 — Southern Woodenboat Sailing
Not one to sit around, Phil was working on her hull that afternoon. Within two days the cabin top and interior fittings were removed, taken to the tip and a bare hull remained.
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Priscilla
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Maybe the best-known Tumlaren was Adlard Coles' Cohoe. The story of her Transatlantic and Newport-Bermuda Races in 1950 is a wonderful tale told by Coles in the book "North Atlantic." That one has been in my library for some 50 years.Sure is, she was rescued from a local clown after years of neglect and the purchaser Phil Holmes is a shipwright from Northland he gave her a real birthday in 12 months or so a pretty remarkable effort.
Tumlaren ELISABETH : An Update part 2 — Southern Woodenboat Sailing
Not one to sit around, Phil was working on her hull that afternoon. Within two days the cabin top and interior fittings were removed, taken to the tip and a bare hull remained.
One of the most remarkable aspects of that story was that Cohoe had to be lengthened overnight from 32' to 35' by her builder in order to qualify for the Bermuda Race, even though she was eligible for the Transatlantic at her original 32'. The yard designed, fabricated, and installed a faired-in aluminum bow extension to the wooden hull in less than 24 hours.
For those who don't know Coles, he was a contemporary of Chichester's, and a successful ocean race, author, and publisher of nautical books. The publishing company he founded, Adlard Coles Nautical, is still in business, and lists a remarkable range of authors of nautical books, from Slocum and Erskine Childers to modern sailor/authors such as Paul Elvstrom and Dee Caffari.
Coles' "Heavy Weather Sailing" is still one of the classics of offshore seamanship.
2flit
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Sam Crocker designed some very nice boats but you don't see them that often. Here's one I owned for a short while.
Growing up in Manchester, MA I was lucky to see a fair number of Crockers floating around the Crocker yard. I remember walking into the sheds on the weekend when I was a kid poking around to see what was going on at Crockers and Manchester Marine.
Bull City
A fine fellow
Lovely color scheme.
