That is my custom Mark Ellis designed, Betts/Bruckmann built cat yawl.
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Ineptune
I trident and I like it.
My first and only boat: a 1979 Guppy 13. Haven't had her on the water yet.
Jim in Halifax
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Clever use of the screw-out clear deck plates as port holes. I would be tempted to install them so that the plates screw-out from the inside as it would be just like me to drop one overboard in the current configuration.
No great surprise that it looks like a stretched Nonsuch with a mizzen. The cat yawl was one of N.G. Herreshoff's favorite rigs for singlehanded sailing, which he did a lot. No headsail to complicate things, and a mizzen for maneuvering.
In pre-engine days, the mizzen was used to hold the boat head to wind for all kinds of maneuvers such as getting underway and anchoring. The year that I sailed my big wooden yawl without an engine, the mizzen was an essential tool for getting the boat on and off our mooring in the middle of a very crowded Newport harbor. Even with that, there was more than a little anxiety at the best of times.
SloopJonB
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In one of his books, Don Street described using the mizzen to back his 40' through a mooring field by alternately swinging the mizzen from side to side.
He didn't list the number of collisions he had while learning how to do it.
The rig on my boat represents my own ideas, influenced by owning a Nonsuch for many years. The mizzen is used for a lot of things, it keeps the boat rock steady an anchor, allows heaving to, makes a small difference sometimes with balance. I put it up the moment we leave the dock and it pretty much stays up until I return.
I have used it several times to back out of an anchorage, or sail to and off of an anchor. Mine is small (215 ft^2), there are twin independent sheets within easy reach of the helm. You back it one way which starts a little sternway and also a swing away from it, then back it the other way, a little more sternway and corrects the swing. Repeat a couple of times and you have enough sternway to simply leave it to one side and steer. It is completely controllable except of course you are going to continue to go backwards. Steering is very positive even with no way. To anchor under sail, I sheet the mizzen CL then drop the main, go forward and drop the anchor. It will sit very nearly head to wind for a long time if needed. To sail off, raise the mizzen (though it has most likely been up all night anyway), sheet it to CL. Raise the main and let it luff. Recover the anchor. Back the mizzen the direction you want to bear away, then sheet in the main and go.
All of that single handed, and not much work.
I have used it several times to back out of an anchorage, or sail to and off of an anchor. Mine is small (215 ft^2), there are twin independent sheets within easy reach of the helm. You back it one way which starts a little sternway and also a swing away from it, then back it the other way, a little more sternway and corrects the swing. Repeat a couple of times and you have enough sternway to simply leave it to one side and steer. It is completely controllable except of course you are going to continue to go backwards. Steering is very positive even with no way. To anchor under sail, I sheet the mizzen CL then drop the main, go forward and drop the anchor. It will sit very nearly head to wind for a long time if needed. To sail off, raise the mizzen (though it has most likely been up all night anyway), sheet it to CL. Raise the main and let it luff. Recover the anchor. Back the mizzen the direction you want to bear away, then sheet in the main and go.
All of that single handed, and not much work.
You usually will void your engine warranty if it’s still valid when you over pitch your prop
Max Rockatansky
DILLIGAF?
- 4,030
- 1,101
I would imagine that the lid flange would make the above less than optimal for preventing water ingress
Kris Cringle
Super Anarchist
- 3,412
- 3,075
Not sailing in Tarbert, Scotland:
Beer fueled Mayhem
Anarchist
My warranty is all done. That being said, I don't like the idea of over-pitching the prop. My father's boat would blow black smoke at full throttle. Not a good look...
My scuba tank needed recert and I just haven't had a chance to drop it off and then dive on my boat to repitch her. So I had my diver buddy do it last Saturday. I got a 30° bolt from PYI and had the diver put it in the hole and then back off two full turns. End result 26°.
I took the boat out Wednesday and was amazed at the total lack of forward thrust. I almost hit the dock behind me because the thrust was so weak. Reverse was another story. HUGE amount of prop walk and when the throttle was goosed, the bow would dip down because reverse hit so hard.
The diver put the "forward" pitch bolt in the reverse hole and the "reverse" bolt in the forward hole. He dove on the boat this morning and swapped bolts.
Monday I'll take her out and see what is what.
The pitch change process is real quick and easy. Took the diver maybe 5 minutes...
Israel Hands
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Neighbor sent a pic of SpaceX rocket flying over the boat
loungesailor
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Definitely not sailing. Diesel heater’s pumping out the btu’s and I’m hunkered down Instead!
Elegua
Generalissimo
Jud - s/v Sputnik
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Important pre-cruise decanting operations going on. 
All liquor must be in square bottles (or be box wine)
Keep the high quality liquor square bottles; when empty, they can be filled with plonk and neither I nor guests will ever know or care. And I’ll be happy not to hear round bottles rolling around in the liquor locker underneath the forward berth!
All liquor must be in square bottles (or be box wine)
Keep the high quality liquor square bottles; when empty, they can be filled with plonk and neither I nor guests will ever know or care.
And I’ll be happy not to hear round bottles rolling around in the liquor locker underneath the forward berth!
We stack our wine bottles in tube socks in a dry, bulkheaded, bilge compartment. Put a few pieces of flexible Dri-Dek in the bottom of the locker to hold the bottles off the bottom. White wine in white tube socks, red wine in gray.Important pre-cruise decanting operations going on.
All liquor must be in square bottles (or be box wine)
Keep the high quality liquor square bottles; when empty, they can be filled with plonk and neither I nor guests will ever know or care.
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We can easily put two cases in the compartment.
Nothing ever rattles, nothing ever breaks, even pounding into a sea at high (for us) speed.
Did the same thing on our last sailboat, but we had several dedicated lockers holding at least four cases. We left Panama with eight cases of duty-free wine, headed across the Pacific. Sort of like carrying coals to Newcastle, since we were ultimately headed to NZ.
Note to self: high quality reds to not like to be shaken around in the bilge of a boat for thousands of miles. Either get the cheaper stuff, or drink faster.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Good theory but do it with some class.Important pre-cruise decanting operations going on.
All liquor must be in square bottles (or be box wine)
Keep the high quality liquor square bottles; when empty, they can be filled with plonk and neither I nor guests will ever know or care.
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Jud - s/v Sputnik
Super Anarchist
!!! I raised the bar last year by spending almost $10k on sails....but I like where you’re going with that.
