Mystery boat

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Comment by Clyde A. Phillips on June 9, 2014 at 5:49pm

Leslie,

Your mystery boat is a Newporter.  My supercritical eye (not necessarily a supercorrect eye) sees the taffrail, lifelilne stanchions, caprail, main shrouds, anchor rollers on bowsprit and the bowsprit itself, and a few other details, all to be Newporter.  The fiddlehead is Newporter but something looks wrong in the picture of the bow--the outside curve of the stem looks wrong.  The bobstay (the chain) looks to be at a wrong angle and the bobstay staple (in the face of the stem just above the water) looks too high, as if the bow is light and the stern is low, or maybe the whole boat is floating high because work is going on and a lot of interior weight has been taken ashore, but the bowsprit outer end may be high.  Another thing that caught my eye is the angle of the mizzen mast.  Looks as if a view from dead ahead you would see that the main mast and mizzen mast are not lined up at all and the mizzen head is way off to the starboard.  The mizzen could also be raked too far aft also.  But these things are best checked in person or with a series of pictures from all angles (in very high resolution and with the whole boat in each picture) three of which should be one taken from broadside from 90 degrees off the center of the hull and one each from dead ahead and dead astern.  Not asking you to do that, just saying that for a good look to assure good assessment of what a boat looks like this is what is needed.  Most single picture leaves too much "out of the picture" to make a good judgment.

Peace to all,   Clyde   

Comment by bob mitchell on June 9, 2014 at 1:29am

Hans Petrie has hull #24 and used to hang out and make repairs in the NAPA.