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HERRESHOFF 12 1/2 PETUNIA FOR SALE

Thursday, September 26th, 2019

PETUNIA COULD BE YOURS

83 years old and still going strong.

As I have turned 75 years young I feel it is time to pass PETUNIA on to a younger and more capable steward. If you would like to own this wonderful Herreshoff 12 1/2 and understand the efforts needed to keep an 83-year old yacht going, please go to the “classic sailing yacht designs” pages of this website where more information is available.

MY ART SHOW

Friday, July 26th, 2019
YOUTHFUL INDISCRETION

PLEASE COME to my art show Friday July 26 at 5:00 PM. Granite Gallery, Tenants Harbor, Maine. Watercolors, like Youthful Indiscretion, oils, pencil and ink sketches.

PAINE 15 AT WOODENBOAT SHOW

Sunday, June 30th, 2019
THE FIRST PAINE 15 was shown at the WoodenBoat Show July 28-30.

BUILDING THE LATEST PAINE 15

Tuesday, May 28th, 2019

I wanted my friends to know that I have decided to build a Paine 15. The first one is nearing completion at French & Webb, and you can learn more about it by going to their website or phoning Todd French. I loved AMELIA- my Paine 14- so much that I came to regret selling her a year ago. The only recourse was to build another- but the larger version suited my requirements a bit better. I bought the cold-molded wood hull from French & Webb, who collaborated with Belmont Boat Works to complete my high-tech vacuum bagged hull. I’ll post a few photos as she takes shape. This is how she stood on May 28.

The bulkheads and transom are in place and the keel deadwood will be added next.

Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

WHY THE YORK 18 IS SO SAFE.

Mike York wanted the York 18 to be unsinkable, and to make an inadvertent swamping a non-event. So together we developed this very elaborate internal fiberglass unit. It encompasses the forward bulkhead with a stowage nook, the subsole with bosses to receive the real hardwood sole slats, the aft bulkhead, and the afterdeck. If you think about it you can picture this as a very expensive bathtup. There is absolutely no way that sea water can get out of this bathtub and into the hull proper. Even the decision to locate the aft hatch for gear stowage on the afterdeck rather than the more conventional location on the face of the aft bulihead was made to insure that no water could ever find its way out of the “tub.” It is beautifully tooled and fits precisely into the hull, contributing to the stiffness of the hull itself.

Friday, May 10th, 2019

CHUCK PAINE STARTS BUILDING A PAINE 15

THE TWO HULL HALVES, LEAD BALLAST AND INTERNALS ARRIVED AT CHUCK’S BARN ON AN AUSPICIOUS BLUE SKY DAY MAY 8

Chuck Paine faced a real dilemma. His two most recent designs are both being built less than an hour away from his home in Tenants Harbor. Both are pure Chuck Paine- fast, elegant, high tech but safe enough to be sailed by a 74-year old. In the end the 15-foot French&Webb-built Paine 15 won out over the 18-foot York 18, because it fit in his barn. Keep coming back to this blog and you can keep track of progress.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

WHY IS MIKE YORK SO HAPPY?

Mike York, standing next to the York 18 mold with one of the hulls laid up in it. His crew did a great laminating job. He is excited to have made good progress and is looking forward to sailing on the first boat this summer.

What she will look like.

PAINE 15 NEARING COMPLETION

Sunday, March 17th, 2019

The Paine 15 is a new sailing design which will be built by Todd French up in Belfast. The first one is sold and will be sailed near San Francisco, and the second is just getting started for a very special customer. She is the latest design in my series of high performance keelboats styled to look like the Herreshoff 12 1/2.

This photo was taken six weeks ago. She is nearing completion now. Stop by Todd’s shop and have a look.

AUSTRALIA WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL

Saturday, March 16th, 2019

At the festival we arranged to meet up with “Queen Bee” and her partner Mikey. She is the little lady that lived aboard her 24-foot “CAROL”, a little double ender of my design that one cannot stand up in, for a number of years. The boat was on a mooring, so she had to row into shore to go to work and row back to spend the night on the boat. Part of the fun of doing what I do ffor a living is meeting interesting people like Bee.

Me, Bee, and Mikey
The eponymously named QUEEN BEE

AUSTRALIA WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL

Wednesday, March 13th, 2019

One of the boats on display was a wooden Sydney Harbour 18-footer.  The bowsprit is as long as the boat!