Tender Design & Selection w/ Designer John Harris - Acorn to Arabella: Journey of a Wooden Boat

The sound gets better at 13:11! Thanks for your patience. We had the mics turned down from the noisy day before, when we were walking around a crowded show grounds.

Steve and Annie B met up with John Harris, owner and CEO of Chesapeake Light Craft www.clcboats.com, to talk tender design and selection. We are looking at the possibilities offered by three different Atkin-designed dinghies, and John helps us think about the type of cruising Steve wants to do, the adventures he wants to have in a sailing and rowing tender, and which design will be the best fit.

We also discuss design alteration and what’s acceptable for changing the building method, length overall (LOA), or other attributes of these designs. We’re thinking about strip-building the Fay at this point.

We also get a look at some vintage books that John has been collecting over time that were published by MotorBoating magazine, a beautiful and informative periodical that offered smart discussions on designs… many from Atkin himself.

The image serving as a thumbnail is a picture of Chesapeake Light Craft’s Eastport Pram. Find out more here: https://www.clcboats.com/shop/boats/wooden-sailboat-kits/eastport-pram/eastport-pram-rowing-sailing-kit.html

At 13:16, Steve and John turn their attention to the Tenderly Dinghy. Annie B wrote a design review about it a couple of years ago, and you can read it here: https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/tenderly/

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