All too often I keep hearing folks refer to their boats as being “tiny”. Especially when it’s used in a way to impress. I just can’t see any bragging rights if you’re sailing a 32-foot boat with 11,800.00 pounds of displacement you’re not on a “tiny” boat. So, what is a “tiny” boat? Maybe Yann …
Scow?
Cunning to the max.
No discussion on scows could overlook David Reards’ accomplishments in bringing attention to the performance of non-pointy designs…
So far I’ve only been pointing to “interesting” scows worth checking out in a pretty non-critical manner. All of the boats/scows in my files have strengths and weaknesses and at some later date I’ll, more than likely, get down to brass tacks and issues hiding under the hood. Anyway, be patient, and if you have …
I’ll go out on a limb and say the driving force behind designing a scow is getting the most useable volume possible within a small envelope while cutting costs in the process. So, here’s a very interesting 28-foot scow. The l’Optimum 28 by Gildas Plessis shows how you can sorta/kinda put the accommodation of a …
Back when I was living on a non-mobile peniche on the outskirts of Paris (1985) I really wanted to build a small cruising sailboat just about the same time that Tad Roberts got a mention in Cruising World for his Harry design. It was love at first sight. A scow with an LOA of 26′, …
Yann Quenet is getting ready for another circumnavigation with some changes to Baluchon that you might find interesting.
