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A Herreshoff Legacy Lives On

Count the stuart knockabout among the few to hold its value..

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It took some time for the Stuart Knockabout, an L. Francis Herreshoff design, to take root and finally flourish. The 28-foot day boat first appeared in 1932 as line drawing number 53 in the L. Francis annals, and only one boat was built. In 1933, Ben My Chree (a Galic term of endearment), was launched and wound up nestled away in Casco Bay, Maine, at the island home of owner Willoughby Stuart. With its own small marine railway and boat shed, Ben My Chree remained in the family for nearly 40 years. In the mid-1980s, it was discovered in a Massachusetts boat shed by Bill Harding, a sailor known for his deft hand on the tiller and the builder of the popular Herreshoff 12 replica-affectionately known as the Doughdish. Harding fell for the lines of daysailer he had discovered, and he researched the boats lineage. After getting a feel for what it had to offer under sail, he decided that this was another slice of sailing history that deserved being resurrected.

Harding built molds and used his already proven approach to turning a timber Herreshoff into a fiberglass favorite. To accomplish the goal, he once again went to boat builders Edey and Duff to do the hull and deck laminating and Ballentines Boat Shop to harness its carpentry skills and talents in finishing off these elegantly trimmed knockabouts. Today, Ballentines handles all the manufacturing and marketing, and even puts on the annual national championship. There are more than 80 boats sailing in the wake of Ben My Chree, and the reason for their success centers around how the boat was originally designed, where it is built today, and why it will continue to sail into the future.

While nearly every major New England boatbuilder is offering a contemporary classic daysailer today (see PS January 2009 online), the Knockabouts long production run and coast-to-coast following give it an investment appeal that you seldom see in the world of sailboats-of any size. For a retired cruiser looking to downsize to a daysailer, this reason alone should bump the Stuart Knockabout up into the final round of hulls under consideration.

What makes this boat such a pleasure to sail has as much to do with whats missing as whats included. This sloop has been stripped to its essence, not a parsimonious approach to boat building, but rather one in which a fine pedigree is created from the foot of the keel to the top of the mast. There is also a startling difference between most contemporary, 28-foot production sailboats and the Stuart Knockabout. The latest luxury daysailers are accessorized with a cabin, bunks, galley stove, a small diesel-plus tanks to fill with water and fuel. While daysailing, the engine coaxes the boat on and off the mooring, and all too often, is a substitute for light-air sails. But for many, the bunks go unused and the stove remains cold for months at a time. The tanks grow their own plankton. In the end, the owners are lugging around a lot of unnecessary structure that shrinks the cockpit, lowers the waterline, raises the center of gravity and kicks up the cost along with the annual maintenance invoices. In short, more boat isn’t necessarily more fun.

The L. Francis Herreshoff design No. 53 defines a shoal draft, 28-foot centerboard/sloop. It has shallow draft (2 feet, 9 inches centerboard up and 5 feet, 6 inches centerboard down), sporting an impressive 50-percent ballast ratio that recoups the righting moment trade-off in the commitment to shallow draft and a lean (6-foot, 11-inch) beam hull. This results in good sail-carrying ability, and is why the Stuart Knockabout, like many of Herreshoffs designs, can make the most of long waterlines, a classic modified spoon bow, and fine sections aft. The net result is a 22-foot, 10-inch resting waterline that grows considerably with just a small amount of heel or squat, and an easily driven hull that can cope with breeze and chop, despite its low freeboard.

The Marconi mainsail and small clubfooted jib yield a combined 265 square feet of working sail area. This is fairly small by Herreshoffs (and todays) standards, but its clean hull lines provide adequate light-air efficiency, especially with the genoa substituted for the self-tacking working jib. An asymmetric spinnaker rounds out the light-air inventory, and even with the relatively low-aspect rig and moderate amount of sail area, the sloop starts moving with little more than a zephyr and is a delight to sail throughout a wide wind range. A J/80 crew will wave as they go by, but after a couple of hours, those lads leaning against the lifelines will envy the knockabout crew sitting in the cockpit snacking or sharing a tasty lunch.

The boats a made-in-America tale of Yankee tradition. Today, Hall Spars does the rig, and its just the right combination of alloy spar, low-maintenance reliability, and a buff-color traditional finish that conveys aesthetics and good performance. Even the sensibility of traditional three-strand, easy to splice, running rigging fits the equation. Edson casts the traditional bronze hardware, and provides the pump thats set deep in the bilge.

With a rail-to-rail traveler on the aft deck and a mainsail vang, theres plenty of opportunity to optimize mainsail shape and trim. The ballast-derived righting moment and moderate sail area keep the crew from scrambling to the rail as the breeze builds. One of the many appealing design attributes found in this boat is the way sailing remains civilized-an in-the-cockpit experience rather than a hang-over-the-rail tribulation. Even when the breeze pipes up, the moderate sail area and high ballast ratio locks in a welcome stiffness, and it justifies lugging around 2,400 pounds of lead ballast in a 4,000-pound boat. The modern foam/fiberglass sandwich hulls and decks weigh less than the original hulls and the ballast has been upped a bit adding extra stiffness.

The proclivity to heel is the Achilles heel of boats built with non-self-bailing cockpits. In this case, the Stuarts high coamings combine with its stiff countenance to prevent the down-flooding linked to a deep knockdown, a very unlikely occurrence. The crew at Ballentines add buoyancy (foam aft and a water-tight bulkhead in the stem) to keep a swamped hull on the surface. According to well-kept Ballentine records, one boat was actually caught in the vortex of a tornado moving over a lake with winds well over 100 knots. The boat was knocked down and swamped, but the owners were surprised at how well the built-in flotation kept it on the surface and upright, despite the flooded hull.

The Stuart Knockabout is a sailboat that looks as good underway as it feels at the helm. A long, carefully sculpted, varnished locust tiller delivers a fingertip feel. Observers note that even with the slightest bit of heel, the well-proportioned sloop stretches its waterline just enough to settle into the seaway and shoulder the waves without excess pitching. The long tiller affords enough leverage to eliminate any barn-door effect from the low-aspect-ratio attached rudder. The long run of keel and forefoot cutaway are in harmony with the sail plan. This results in on-the-wind sailing that could be described as balanced, and off-the-wind sailing that is a nicely controlled endeavor.

The large-main/small-jib sail plan is in complete harmony with the underbody. As the breeze increases, the Knockabout heels gradually and remains reluctant to go much beyond 15 to 20 degrees. Naturally, big increases in wind velocity, such as during a thunderstorm, can result in being overpowered. Like any sailboat, its not immune to fire drills.

Under power

The Stuart Knockabout is a prime candidate for an electric Torqueedo outboard or a small 3- or 4-horsepower, long-shaft four-stroke outboard. A port mounting bracket is fitted near the tiller, and the low freeboard gives the outboard plenty of prop submersion. When the engine is not in use, its easy to haul it back aboard, remove the bracket and stow the motor and bracket under the foredeck.

Pocket cruisers are indeed one of the most worthy ways to voyage under sail. But if your stints on the water are measured in hours not days, weeks, or months, why lug along a cabin and all that goes into such an interior? Look around your marina or out at the moored fleets, and tally up how often you see folks perched uncomfortably atop the cabin houses because the cockpit is nearly nonexistent. Add up how many of the capable cruisers return home to their slips in the late afternoon rather than swing-on-the-hook in a quiet cove. Designers and builders have been noting this trend, and the result has been a resurgence in capable sailing, large cockpit, daysailers. But rather than shell out $80,000 (or much more) for one of these new iterations, an option is to track down an old Stuart Knockabout. The Knockabout has both the enduring appeal of a classic and the design advantages of a true daysailer. It is a sailboat that has indeed had multi-generational appeal.

In the just under and just over 30-foot size boat, youll find cruisers, racers, and everything in between. Its this tween range that got us going this month and led to our close scrutiny of the Stuart Knockabout. The boat is neither a cruiser, nor a racer for the adrenalin-dripping sailor hoping to keep up with the kiteboarders. The Stuart works for those looking to savor a couple of hours of an afternoon sea breeze or a bit of local club racing. How she compares with a couple of other boats we call daysailers is worth mentioning. (See In Context table on right.)

The new CW Hood 32 is an elegant, and technically tricked-out, long-ended daysailer. With a carbon rig and vacuum-bagged molded hull, it has a few feet on the Stuart and still comes in lighter in displacement. Its Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) rating of 147 will appeal to the race-oriented, as will the carbon spar and rod rigging.

The out-of-production J/80 is more of a one-design racer than leisure daysailer, and its proven ability under sail has a lasting legacy. Over 1,300 boats have been launched, and the used price for a sound boat is about $35,000. The new J/Boats that bracket the J/80 are the smaller, 22-foot J/70 speedster ($50,000) and the 29-foot, auxilliary-diesel powered J/88 ($150,000). Both are fine boats, but they offer less than an apples to apples correlation with the Stuart Knockabout.

The bottom line, at least from our perspective, is that although sailboat design and technological advances have moved ahead, and made for performance enhancements that count on the race course, the delight of simply being underway in a tried and proven traditional design still has merit.

Theres a lot to appreciate about a boat thats easy to handle, leaves just a few ripples in her wake, and is as pleasant to look at as she is to sail.

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21' montgomery herreshoff 21 antique and classics.

� A classic L. Francis Herreshoff design built by Montgomery Boat Yard of Gloucester, Ma.

Lamb Chop has been shipyard maintained for the last 7 years.

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• V berth forward
• Sitting headroom
• Portable self-contained head
• The interior is white paint with varnished cedar and mahogany trim and varnished pine cabin sole
• Ventilation is provided by a single hatch-slide and a ventioator, with screens
• Circuit breaker panel.Ã? Ã?  The panel and the outlets are not currently in use.Ã? 
• A 12 rolt battery can be wired up to the bilge pump.Ã?  No other electrics/electronics are in use
• Rule electric bilge pump
• 12# Danforth Anchor
• Manual bilge pump
• (3) Dock lines; (2) Fenders
• Interior berth cushions new '09
• (2) 10' Shaw & Tenny oars
• Cockpit cushions new '09
• Windex masthead wind fly
• steel cradle with 4 pads
• Mainsail and mizzen by Quantum Thurston, new 2018
• Sail covers for both sails
• Mast height approximately 29' from waterline
• Spars are varnished keel stepped Sitka spruce. Stainless steel running rigging to swaged bronze turnbuckles, braided rope halyards, braided mainsheet and 3-strand mizzen sheet.
• Construction -Ã?  Carvel cedar planking on white oak frames, structural keel, backbone, deadwood and floor timbers; bronze-screw and copper-rivet fastened
• Teak-over-plywood deck; 5'6" x 6' cockpit with tiller steering, teak sole and mahogany coamings.
• External lead ballast; Gray-green hull with white boot top, bronze-colored bottom and taupe cabin
• Lamb Chop was refurbished in 2004 and routinely upgraded since.
• She is a cat yawl design by L. Francis Herreshoff, who hadÃ? the following to say about the rig:Ã?  "With the cat yawl, when the sheets are properly attended, one can keep her perfectly under control, and she will steer easily underÃ?  most conditions.Ã?  In fact, she can often be made self-steering by slacking the mizzen sheet.Ã?  Of course, there are sheets toÃ? tend when tacking ship, and a properly shaped cat yawl is a notably fast craft."Ã? 
• In 2009 new equipment included berth cushions; cockpit cushions; locker cabinet, storage cabinet and toilet cabinet. New foredeck prism;Ã? rode pipe and anchor chocks

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RUGOSA for sale

This classic sailing yacht, last refitted in 2007, has proven herself as both a family cruiser and an accomplished racer

The 21.94-metre 1926-built Herreshoff sailing yacht RUGOSA has joined the Edmiston sales fleet.RUGOSA is a New York Yacht Club 40, the most coveted model in a distinguished line of Nathanael G. Herreshoff NYYC One-Design classes. Uniquely, RUGOSA was built as a yawl, and has the potential to beat the existing NY40s that successfully compete on the Mediterranean circuit, namely MARILEE, ROWDY and CHINOOK.

In her early years, RUGOSA won the 1928 Bermuda Race under the ownership of the first of many owners, Russell Grinnell of Providence, Rhode Island. She went on to have notable racing successes under a succession of owners before being bought by Halsey Herreshoff, grandson of NGH, who has cruised and raced extensively on her in his 30 years of ownership, from the east coast of the USA to the cruising grounds of Europe. She famously beat 58 top classics in the 2001 Americas Cup Jubilee in Cowes.RUGOSA’s most recent refit was in 2007, when much structural work was done. With many miles sailed since then, another refit should be envisaged by the next custodian, to bring her up to perfect condition.RUGOSA can accommodate eight guests in traditional open plan accommodation, suitable for a racing crew, regatta charter, or family use.

The galley is forward of the saloon, as originally designed, where in the latter is found a handsome gimballed dining table. Aft is the navigation station, with chart table and twin seating.The deck arrangement of RUGOSA has proven ideal for either racing or cruising. Wide open areas fore and aft make easy tasks of manoeuvres and sail handling.

Specifications

• Name: RUGOSA
• Yacht Type: Sail Yacht
• Yacht Subtype: Classic Yacht
• Builder: Herreshoff
• Refits: 2007-01-01
• Length Overall: 21.94 metres
• Length at Waterline: 12.2 metres
• Beam: 4.27 metres
• Max Draught: 2.6 metres
• Displacement Tonnage: 30

Construction

• Year of Build: 1926

Performance & Capacities

• Fuel Capacity: 378 litres
• Water Capacity: 565 litres

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L. Francis Herreshoff H-28 Ketch

Just two owners in 47 years.

Professionally maintained by Cutts and Case in Oxford, Maryland for the last 11 years.

Frequent exhibit boat at annual Sultana Downrigging Weekend in Chestertown since 2012.

“Simplicity afloat is the surest guarantee of happiness.”

– L. Francis Herreshoff

One of LFH’s most graceful designs, Gwylan is ready to begin turning heads in new harbors starting with the 2024 season.

LOA 28’

Sparred length: 34’

LWL 23’

Beam 8’9”

Draft 3’6”

Sail area: 343 s.f.

w/genoa approx. 546 s.f.

Built 1976 by McKie (Nick) Roth, Westport, Maine

White cedar over white oak, mahogany brightwork, bronze fastened, lead keel.

Reinforced 1998 with Cutts & Case's patented method which laces the planking below the waterline with thin Kevlar cord, resulting in an exceptionally safe and strong hull. No cracks in seams or planks in 26 seasons underway. See WoodenBoat #78 .  No known rot.

Original Volvo-Penta MD7A diesel is well cared for, runs beautifully.

​Sails made by the legendary Stuart Hopkins at Dabbler Sails, who crafted them from Dacron to look like vintage cotton: half-width panels (18") sewn with brown thread to catch the eye (and the camera), both jibs mitered to complete the vintage appearance. Sails are well maintained: main, mizzen, genoa, staysail. Includes a masthead drifter. Previous suit of sails are usable and are included.

Price $25,000, negotiable for a good home.

Ideal buyer has the skills and time to self-maintain or the availability of a competent yard.

You'll smile every time you look at her!

I have for 27 seasons.

She's now at Cutts & Case Shipyard in Oxford, Maryland, hauled for the season, stored indoors, among the many other beautiful boats in this classic yard.

See Drone Videos by Paul DeLaney

many more still images .

Authenticity

Gwylan closely follows LFH’s original design from the December, 1942 issue of the magazine The Rudder except for the welcome addition of a short bowsprit and removable jibstay to allow setting a big genoa in lighter air. It also is a handy place for the 25 lb. CQR anchor, which allows me to comfortably cruise singlehanded several hundred miles a year on the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River.

The article was reprinted later in Herreshoff’s Sensible Cruising Designs ( still available )

L. Francis Herreshoff’s biographer, Roger C. Taylor, describes the development of the H-28 in his Volume II and he used two pictures of Gwylan in his excerpt article in Woodenboat No. 206 .

Author Roger Taylor on board Gwylan at Chestertown during Downrigging Weekend, 2016.

Gwylan’s first owner was a fascinating man, Capt. John Cadwalader, USN. In addition to being a lover of the sea, he was a professor of Shakespeare and a namesake descendent of one of George Washington’s generals in the American Revolution. The name Gwylan is the Welsh word for “seagull”.

She's sweet and true - prettiest boat in the harbor.

Herreshoff eagle

The herreshoff eagle is a 22.0ft gaffhead sloop designed by halsey herreshoff and built in fiberglass by tpi composites since 1976..

The Herreshoff eagle is a moderate weight sailboat which is a very high performer. It is stable / stiff and has a low righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a racing boat.

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A migrant boat sinks off the Turkish coast, killing at least 22 people

A member of Turkish Coastal Security uses binoculars on the Turkey’s shore of Aegean sea in Eceabat, Turkey, Friday, March 15, 2024. A rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast on Friday, killing at least 22 people, officials said. (Dia Images via AP)

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast on Friday, killing at least 22 people, officials said.

Turkish coast guard personnel rescued two migrants from the sea off the town of Eceabat in Canakkale province, while two others reached the shore by themselves and notified officials, Gov. Ilhami Aktas said.

It was not clear how many people were on the boat when it sank and the coast guard was continuing to search the area, he said.

Aktas told the state-run Anadolu Agency that seven of the dead were infants or children.

The migrants’ nationalities were not immediately known.

They were trying to reach the Greek island of Samothraki, the private Demiroren News Agency reported.

Eighteen rescue boats, a plane, two helicopters and a drone were involved in the search and rescue mission, the statement said. Ambulances were on standby at a nearby port, Anadolu reported.

Although their numbers have declined in recent years, migrants mostly from the Middle East and Africa often leave Turkey to try to reach Greece or Italy in search of a better life in European countries.

The Turkish coast guard said it caught at least 93 migrants attempting to leave the Turkish coast on boats this week.

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Herreshoff Fish

Herreshoff Fish is a 20 ′ 8 ″ / 6.3 m monohull sailboat designed by Nathaniel G. Herreshoff and built by Herreshoff Mfg. Co. between 1916 and 1930.

Rig and Sails

Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.

The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

Commissioned by Seawanhaka Corinthian YC, (Long Island, NY) for one-design racing and delivered beginning in 1916. More were built by Herreshoff until the late 1920’s. Over the years, a number of reproductions have been built based on this original design. The drawing here shows the ‘marconi’ sloop version adopted in the 1930’s.

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