Additionally, the pilothouse access doors are on port/starboard sides. Therefore if we're ever pooped, or knocked down, seawater simply washes off the aft deck and through bulwark scuppers at the forward decks.
Our decks are strongly cambered, although it's hard to see, and that little "well" has two three-inch welded pipes exiting aft and down, so water can't linger.
I do like the "side door" idea...but to adapt it to my pilothouse would make no sense as the break between the high "aft" and lower "fore" decks is quite near the front of the pilothouse, the aft part of which is only about 24 in./60 cm. high.
I am most comfortable moving about the boat on a heel, because of that deck camber. With a heel, the "high side" is nearly flat. On the hard in a cradle, with a wet or icy deck, the boat gets a little dangerous because it's shaded on the west side (where I get aboard) and I have to shovel off that part of the deck.
Interesting stuff and thanks to John for posting the Samos info.
Of course there are people out there who believe that Joshua is the perfect boat , the logic being, well BM sailed her around the world so she must be the goods.
Last weekend we anchored in the same bay as a 40' Roberts Spray, Ospray of Boston. Her master and crew had arrived ony a few days earlier from the UK via Panama. Gaff rigged, bit rough around the edges but another design that in many peoples minds is the 'perfect cruiser' because, well JS sailed the original around the world. Ken was under no illusion that O of B was the pinnacle of yacht design but who gives a flying feck ? She's taken him halfway round the world and she'll get him home again, albeit slowly, but what's the rush ?
While I am in no way shape or form knocking these boats one wonders how much was the boat and how much the master even though both craft were eventually lost, presumably due to human error. Moitessier put Joshua onto a reef while Slocum simply disappeared without trace.
Robin Knox-Johnston was the first single hand none step circumnavigator, Moitessier not withstanding, and he did it in an old home built timber ketch (yawl maybe ?) that he used only because he couldn't raise the funds to built his dream machine.
Now I know that in these days of increased size and speed (not to mention quantity) of large ships the idea of heading off without some basic electronics would be tantamount to suicide but we do need to keep in mind that you don't NEED a million dollars worth of yacht to go cruising.
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I'm surprised the boat's not heeling towards the dock more.
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Interesting stuff and thanks to John for posting the Samos info.
Of course there are people out there who believe that Joshua is the perfect boat , the logic being, well BM sailed her around the world so she must be the goods.
Last weekend we anchored in the same bay as a 40' Roberts Spray, Ospray of Boston. Her master and crew had arrived ony a few days earlier from the UK via Panama. Gaff rigged, bit rough around the edges but another design that in many peoples minds is the 'perfect cruiser' because, well JS sailed the original around the world. Ken was under no illusion that O of B was the pinnacle of yacht design but who gives a flying feck ? She's taken him halfway round the world and she'll get him home again, albeit slowly, but what's the rush ?
While I am in no way shape or form knocking these boats one wonders how much was the boat and how much the master even though both craft were eventually lost, presumably due to human error. Moitessier put Joshua onto a reef while Slocum simply disappeared without trace.
Robin Knox-Johnston was the first single hand none step circumnavigator, Moitessier not withstanding, and he did it in an old home built timber ketch (yawl maybe ?) that he used only because he couldn't raise the funds to built his dream machine.
Now I know that in these days of increased size and speed (not to mention quantity) of large ships the idea of heading off without some basic electronics would be tantamount to suicide but we do need to keep in mind that you don't NEED a million dollars worth of yacht to go cruising.
I guess Moitessiere was doing well in that "race" when he dropped out. Seems like he had a lot of waterline for that era, though. If his Joshua was built anything like Samos, there probably wasn't much the sea could throw at him that it couldn't handle.
I like the rugged simplicity of the Joshua design, but have never been a great fan of B.M. As someone else recently commented about another dreamer "he seem[ed] to be a master at spending other people's money." (That, and a number of fatherless children across the South Pacific...) He gave-up quickly on the Joshua he drove ashore, but some young guys without much money but a lot of guts and ingenuity floated her off and put her back in service.
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