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gaff rig
Jeff,
I am told that it was based on the lines from Chappelle. The boat was one of 6 or 7 built by Penobscot Boats (of trawler fame) in the first half of the 1970s. The story I got is that they built the first one to Chappelle''s lines but found that performance was not what they liked so they made some modifications. I gather this is the passed down story so I am not sure how true it is.
I know one of them was Ketch rigged and named Appogee, she sank on the way to bermuda some time in the early 1990s. Another was for sale in RI a year or two ago. I am not sure about the others.
I sailed mine down from Maine and sailed her a bit for two years before finally buckling down to fix her up. Right now she has some deck missing in the cockpit and lots of other work to do but I am fixing her faster than she is decaying so eventually I will run out of projects and have to learn to sail again.
The boa is great fun, I learn more about it every time I go sailing. There are a lot of well thought out practical things about the boat, but she is so unlike other vessels out there that I have to figure a lot of it out myself.
Thanks for the clarification, I wonder if Ray is going to buy the schooner?
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