Interesting boats

This is one of the boats at the Classic Car and Boat Show in LaConner Wa in the fall. This is a Skagit (brand) boat .. the largest I've seen. Many Skagit boats came in this color and it looks great buffed out.

The second pic is of another Skagit of more typical size. The color is not original but very nice ... I think.

Shewwww. That big Skagit is one curvy lady.

Summer Star is a Phil Barron design/build. She was built for Oliver Summers in approx 1970. He was Royal Vic, so as they organized the Vic Maui race (sail) and needed an escort boat, he had her equipped with enough extra fuel to make it to Maui. When Summers got old, she was bought and lovingly maintained by my good friend Ron Jupp, who kept her for many years, till he moved up to a 60ft ex RCAF supply boat "Nimpkish II" that also qualifies as an "Interesting boat".

Eric do you have any more pictures of that big Skagit cruiser? That thing gets my motor running.

This aggressive-looking vessel was seen docked in Sausalito.

One of our local trawlers:



Seems to pay its way catching fish bait.

Keith re tha S Star I suspected there would be interesting tales about her. Thanks for the amplifying information.

CP no. I looked. I've seen her near Friday Harbor on two occasions so I suspect they may give rides in the summer. I do know where there is a Skagit in a back yard near the bridge that just died. More like a 20 - 22' or so though. I'm quite sure that big one is an inboard and I don't think I've ever seen another. She will prolly be at the gathering in the fall and I don't like to miss that so perhaps more pics?

Mark that fishboat has some strange rigging .... is it truly a "trawler"?
Agressive? Hmmmm. The negative sheer? More boat aft than fwd?

Here's another handsome boat from that show that I've never posted.
The lack of bow pulpits and rails on this page is golden.

manyboats said:

This is one of the boats at the Classic Car and Boat Show in LaConner Wa in the fall. This is a Skagit (brand) boat .. the largest I've seen. Many Skagit boats came in this color and it looks great buffed out.

The second pic is of another Skagit of more typical size. The color is not original but very nice ... I think.

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Almost 50 years ago my Dad had a 20' Skagit sedan model with that same turquoise deck and cabin top. Power was a little 4 cylinder Volvo with one of the earliest Volvo outdrives, the engine ran like a top but the drive was often broken. We lived in a logging camp on Cracroft Island at the time, and ran that boat back and forth to Vancouver(160 miles +/-) a few times. In those days you could do the whole trip and not see another pleasure boat. We thought she was fast but we probably cruised at less than 20 knots, it was at least a two day trip......but high adventure for a 10 year old kid......

manyboats said:

Mark that fishboat has some strange rigging .... is it truly a "trawler"?
Agressive? Hmmmm. The negative sheer? More boat aft than fwd?

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That rigging is for hauling the net. A couple of other small trawlers are similarly rigged.

dwhatty said:

Now to go find a one lunger YouTube video to remind me of the sound of the double ender in-shore lobster boats of my childhood, not to mention one particular sailboat I chartered many, many years ago.

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in make & break harbour - YouTube

And of course:

Stan Rogers - Make and Break Harbour - YouTube

manyboats said:

Also a clinker/lapstrake planked wood sailboat running w the wind AND current in Knight Inlet last spring.

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That's actually a fibreglass NorSea 27, designed by Lyle Hess:

Nor'Sea 27 - Photos page 1

1984 Nor'Sea 27 Sail Boat For Sale - www.yachtworld.com

Eagle,

Perhaps I should have just called it a sailboat and let it go at that.

An amazing number of people think our Willard is wood. Now I kinda know why. In my defense the pic is cropped ... we weren't close. I sometimes hold my camera on a small tri-pod and get much sharper pics in low light or on the aft deck underway. Many pics I can't crop down to 25% of their original size.

They seemed to be having a good time sailing.

koliver said:

Ron Jupp, who kept her for many years, till he moved up to a 60ft ex RCAF supply boat "Nimpkish II" that also qualifies as an "Interesting boat".

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Nimpkish II and other interesting boats at the 2012 BC Forest Service Vessel Rendezvous.

2012 BC Forest Service Vessel Rendezvous | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

IslandEagle said:

in make & break harbour - YouTube

And of course:

Stan Rogers - Make and Break Harbour - YouTube

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Thanks for those.

Don't know if this is the same boat. Make & Break.

And I love Stan Rogers. Have all his albums. So sad he died so early.

David your previous boat would be a great contribution for this thread. The only photo I recall seeing was quite interesting.

CPseudonym said:

David your previous boat would be a great contribution for this thread. The only photo I recall seeing was quite interesting.

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Well, here's a few:

Here's another:

IslandEagle said:

And of course:

Stan Rogers - Make and Break Harbour - YouTube

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Stan Rogers; tho he may be lost, he's definitely is not forgotten! A Canadian national treasure he was...

MurrayM said:

Stan Rogers; tho he may be lost, he's definitely is not forgotten! A Canadian national treasure he was...

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Along with Ian Tyson, Gordon Lightfoot and many more.

Here's a story of the power in a song, and Stan Rogers live on stage;

One Warm Line (Documentary) Excerpt - Stan Rogers Performs "Mary Ellen Carter" - YouTube

A couple of similar looking boats that were re-built (Aphrodite) and built (Liberty) in this area fairly recently.

Okay. I'll stop for awhile after these two Maine built boats: Kintore, a 1995 build based on a William Garden West Coast Halibut Schooner Design, and Grayling, a 1915 Maine sardine carrier that was rebuilt and converted to pleasure 1995-1997.

How do those narrow boats do with beam seas?

dwhatty said:

Well, here's a few:

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Man! Those (both) are great looking boats! The kind of boats I would expect a man of your breeding to have.

SeaHorse II said:

Man! Those (both) are great looking boats! The kind of boats I would expect a man of your breeding to have.

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Unfortunately, my parents bred a son of yacht tastes but dinghy budget.

dwhatty said:

A couple of similar looking boats that were re-built (Aphrodite) and built (Liberty) in this area fairly recently.

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He's probably to modest to mention it, but you might notice that the avatar for Tad Roberts is a picture of Liberty... he was the designer.

Scott Welch
Island Eagle

dwhatty said:

Okay. I'll stop for awhile

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Please don't! Thanks for those pictures of your old boat too David. You certainly live in an area that gives birth to many fine boats.

Those two are especially beautiful. I recognized Liberty quickly from Tad's avatar. Hard to fathom the level of craftsmanship still at work in Maine.

Extended vacationing and boat drooling in Maine is on my bucket list.

How do those narrow boats do with beam seas?

WONDERFUL!

They simply go up and down , instead of rolling from gunnel to gunnel.

Skinney boats are great , but it takes a LB ratio of 6-1 to gain efficiency.

60 ft boat 10ft beam, hard to sell to the pool hall folks.

I've posted most of these before:

I like your old boat and the Ex Sardine carrier coversions.