DaddyRabbit

I don't see myself building a wooden boat that large. I just don't have the time or resources. But if I did, I'd build an eleven footer first, half-size if you will, to workout the sail placement and balance. As far as practicality goes, the Vacationer is a better boat, way-more room in the cabin and fewer lines to handle. I can't help but think it would make a spiffy little pirate ship though... Hitler !!? that was supposed to be my mother-in-law... oh, wait I see how you could be confused...

While snow-bound here in the south, I decided to build a model of the 22 Ft.Coot (from the poly-sail site). When I scaled out the hull outline, I found that it had the almost exact outline as the Row-Sail Dory !! The 11 Ft. R-S Dory is credited by the builder as being a slippery little fish. I think that some people may be put off by the name "Coot", as in "Old Coot", which many of us don't want to be classified as. Maybe this boat would get more study if it were called "Flaming Star" or something. Anyway here is the model I'm working on. I built it with twin center-boards, to open up the center of the cabin, more keel and less skag, so that I could take some of the rake out of the masts.