IMG_1254CEF1 – Nordland WA – Mystery Bay State Park – 2015 Red Lantern Rally – SCAMPs sailing back into Mystery Bay

IMG_1254CEF1 - Nordland WA - Mystery Bay State Park - 2015 Red Lantern Rally - SCAMPs sailing back into Mystery Bay

IMG_1254CEF1 - Nordland WA - Mystery Bay State Park - 2015 Red Lantern Rally - SCAMPs sailing back into Mystery Bay

From front to back…Comfortable, COWBOY COOKIES, KERFUFFLE, and, port beam to us, SCAMP-70 (I did not capture her title from builder Dan Thompson, but she’s very easily identifiable by her outsized red house and more substantial portlights…not to point out the selection 70 on her sail!)

SCAMP, the class title of this small pram, stands for Small Craft Advisor Magazine Challenge. It was created by New Zealand designer John Welsford for the Port Townsend-dependent journal Small Craft Advisor. Designer/Builder Kees Prins helped to further establish the layout. smallcraftadvisor.com/

The boat is 11 feet 11 inches extended general, has a beam of 5 ft 4 inches, and a draft of 7 inches with its offset centerboard up. It is ballasted with 173 pounds of water that is drained when the boat is hauled up the launching ramp, and for that reason is quickly towed behind any modest auto this sort of as Subaru Outback. smallcraftadvisor.com/scamppagemenu

It is regarded as a “micro-cruiser”, and can snooze just one man or woman on a 8 foot 3 inch berth or two persons on a 6 foot 6 inch berth. It accomplishes this significant amount of place in this kind of a shorter length due to the fact it is pram-bowed, indicating the vee-bow finishes just previously mentioned the drinking water and flares into a flat transom, which considerably improves accessible house. 4 older people can quickly in shape into the cockpit with home to spare.

The boat can be developed from ideas or from a kit, equally out there from Little Craft Advisor. It has tested to be a incredibly popular design, and dozens have been developed to date.

Modest Craft Advisor maintains a very energetic on line dialogue board for the boat, in this article: smallcraftadvisor.com/concept-board2/viewforum.php?f=3

You will uncover designer John Welsford below: www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz/index.html

John Welsford is a effectively-acknowledged New Zealand boat designer who works in each sail and power. His boats are recognized for their seaworthiness and rugged superior appears to be like. He was profiled in WoodenBoat journal challenge 225 (March/April 2012) by creator Tom Pamperin, whose description of John’s structure ethic matches him perfectly: “Welsford is at coronary heart a romantic, I recognize – an engineer with a poet’s soul, a draftsman disguising escape devices in rolling bevels and wonderful curves…”

> Website: www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz/
> John’s site: jwboatdesigns.blogspot.com/
> John’s designs are accessible here:
duckworksbbs.com/strategies/jw/index.htm

Developing and sailing lessons are made available by The Pocket Yacht. You can come across out a lot more, right here: www.thepocketyacht.com/

For a continuing discussion of SCAMPs, look at out the WoodenBoat discussion board thread “SCAMP Envy and Lust”, right here: discussion board.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?139540-SCAMP-envy-lust

And for even extra images of SCAMPs, test listed here: www.flickr.com/groups/2722238@N23/

Posted by BlackShoe1 on 2015-07-28 05:29:14

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