Old issues of The Rudder magazine, stored for many years here at home, contain some unusually fine designs—ones I believe OCH members should know about. So I’ll be extracting random issues from the old LaBrie’s donut boxes where they live, scanning what I feel are the very best designs, and posting them periodically with comments beyondwhat’s in the magazines. (The magazines came from Capt. Elwell B. Thomas via my friend Sam Crowley who, being without donut storage boxes, felt compelled to pass them on to me. Thanks, Sam!)
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Paul Briggs says:
I suspect a modern overhead valve camshaft engine would stick up higher than that shoehorned example in that 35 ft power cruiser.
David Tew says:
Rhodes designed a series of center cockpit ketches with a similar hull shape to WUNDERBAR’s in his Vagabondia series. As you know, Maynard, they are described in Hendersons book. My godfather had one of the 38s and in the ’60s we sailed the coast of Maine in tandem, while we were aboard my family’s Rhodes Swiftsure. That’s when I really fell in love with living on and cruising the Maine coast. https://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/vagabondia38.htm
Brian Mosher says:
This yacht has the most beautifully pleasing lines! A wonderful looking yacht. I would build her today!!
Thanks for the posting,
Brian Mosher,
Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
Home of the Bluenose
bob mcCorkle says:
Great articles. These design articles are a favorite of mine, since the start of OCH, or at least since I joined. It is always very interesting to see how different designers and naval architects draw their boats and how they are ultimately built. Perhaps Bob Perry could be convinced to contribute. It would be enlightening to learn more about the Valiant series he drew.