| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 693.1 | A lovely boat... | DELNI::FACHON | | Mon Nov 23 1987 13:22 | 8 |
| A true classic! My grandfather raced S-boats on Narragansett
Bay -- must be 50 or more years ago. I believe he had number 9 --
"Dilemma."
Do you have a wooden rig? The original "bendy" mast.
I can't give you any pointers on the boat -- never sailed one.
Just wanted to wish you luck!
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| 693.2 | S BOAT | BRAT::CLARK | | Mon Nov 30 1987 16:39 | 6 |
| What is an s-boat,please descRIBE
S BOAT ?????????????
Q
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| 693.3 | She sits on the water like a swan | USSCSL::GERMAIN | Down to the sea in ships.. | Thu Jan 14 1988 10:36 | 33 |
| Dear Q,
An s-boat is a one design racing boat designed by Nathanial
Herreshoff. I guess the official title is Standard S Class Sailboat.
So owners refer to them as S-boats. 102 boats were built, with 60
to 70 still afloat. Of those afloat 50 still race. there will be
51 racing this summer, though!
The boat is noted for speed in light air combined with the ability
to take it in rough weather. The S is thought to be the first
one-design class to carry the Marconi rig.
Most of them were built between 1919 and 1930, with the last being
built in 1941. She is 27'6" overall with a waterline length of 20'6".
beam 7'2"
draft 4'9"
sail area 425sq ft
displacement 6750lbs.
ballast is 3,350 lbs of lead on the keel
She is cedar on oak with mahogany trim.
Solid spruce spars, and hollow spruce mast.
Re: .1 - Yep I have the original wood rigging with the "bendy mast".
The mast curves aft, which is the quick way to recognize an S-boat.
She has a small cabin with two bunks. You can sit up in it, but
that is all. Mine had a brass bell, and copper and brass foghorn
in the lockers! I got the brasso out and they look great.
She has a large cockpit, which can sit about 6.
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| 693.4 | S-boat=Dark Harbor 20 | DELNI::MCCLELLAN | | Tue Feb 16 1988 17:45 | 11 |
| The S boat sounds like a "Dark Harbor Twenty" which were a Herreshoff
(sp) design, but built by the Dark Harbor Boat yard in Islesboro
Maine. There are still 8 or 9 of them there that race every Sat
in the summer. I think they built around 30 of them and the same
boat yard built quite a few Dark Harbor 12's as well, which is the
Herreshoff Boy's boat. The 20's or S boats have the most beautiful
lines of any boat I have ever seen, either in or out of the water.
As far as being good in light air, I have been becalmed in a "modern"
daysailer and had a 20 pass by at a knot or two. Any more where
yours came from?
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| 693.5 | 1987 Woodenboat calendar | CASAD4::THOMAS | | Wed Feb 17 1988 09:24 | 5 |
| see the cover and May picture in the 1987 Woodenboat calendar. The
Dark Harbor Twenty's is a beauty!!
Ed
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| 693.6 | R.I. Classics race/pictures | USSCSL::GERMAIN | Down to the sea in ships.. | Fri Feb 26 1988 09:05 | 20 |
| Re: .4
None that I know of, although there are a few in the Larchmont Yacht
club, and perhaps some might be for sale. I was extremely lucky
in stumbling upon this one - I am champing at the bit to get to
the yard this spring, brush her up and launch her.
Re: .5
I would love to have a look at the calendar!
I hope to whip both the boat, and myself, into shape for the September
Classics race. Do you think an S-boat would qualify? What are the
criteria? The Classics race I am refering to is the one in Rhode
Island.
Thanks,
Gregg
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| 693.7 | | 38597::GERMAIN | Improvise! Adapt! Overcome! | Mon Mar 12 1990 13:23 | 14 |
| I got a phone call from a fellow that is the Herreshoff S-boat
historian. He has this big database which is supposed to track all the
S-boats still in existence.
He asks some questions, and runs the answers through his db, and tells
me that my boat is.......
the very first S-boat ever built.
Wouldn't it be nice if he was right? :^)
Gregg
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