A wet Elf

[lewisboats]

Long time ago (9-10 years) when I was first playing with simple boat designs (still am I guess) I did up a small sailing/rowing skiff design in Carene50. All it was was a screen capture of the drawing and the offsets to the expanded hull panels. Last year Ron Nordberg emailed me informing me that he had taken a fancy to the lines and had started building it. Over the past 10-12 months we have corresponded and collaborated and ended up with the launch last month of the EMMA-J. Here are a few links...one to pictures and the others to the two part video of the launch. I am looking forward to the first sailing pics or video or both...hopefully soon. It is hitting spring there after all (listen up for the accent) and a full sailing season is in the offing.

Video at last mate.  Trailer presented some probs, they are being sorted now. I think you will be as thrilled as I am.  What a great little boat, floats on the water like a butterfly resting, pretty as, and that is whatr drew me to the design in the first place.  Will have all the other stuff and some under sail soon mate.

Thanks again for a great year mate, have really enjoyed it.

Here is the picture of the design:

http://angelfire.com/ego/lewisboatworks/Images/Experimental/Elf.GIF

Here is the Facebook gallery of Photos:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=299623&id=578355720&l=e91f174784

and here are the links to the videos:

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[Oyster]

Pretty cool for sure! I like it and it looks like an easy cartopper too. Tell him to get a piece of pvc pipe and more foward while motoring even though it does seem really stable with him at the corner of the transom. I think it would be really stable with him midship especially if he gets in some chop.

[lewisboats]

Yeah...he already told me he was going to add an extension to the tiller handle. I really want to see it under sail. I had originally thought of a daggerboard but when I suggested it to him he told me he already was making a centerboard and had the case done to boot! Had me scrambling to work out the centers as he already had his sails that he got 2nd hand.