Saturday Night Special build
There are several builders of this design aiming at next
years Texs 200, we’re hoping for a fleet
of them, some to be available as fundraiser charters to raise money for cancer research.
To recap the project, the build projects and the sponsorship
to help build them is being managed by Jackie Monies , and we’re hoping for half a dozen to front up
on day one of the Texas 200 next year.
Phil McCowin decided that this sounded like fun, and is busy
building one with which to participate, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be his crew. I’m very much looking forward to this event.
Phil has his SNS all planked up, she’s looking lean and
slippery. Do bear in mind that the design is intended to be a very quick build so the build standard is not fancy, just basic carpentry
rather than a lesson in “how to build a heritage standard boat”. To give you an idea of how the build goes I asked Phil how long it took to plank her, and he tells me that it took about 6 1/2 hours, thats the chine panels and topsides, essentially from a basic frame to "a boat". One day with coffee and lunch breaks.
She has just the simplest structure and basic interior which means shes light,
quick and easy to build, and may well be the most bang you’ll get for the buck.
She’ll be fast, capable of planing on most points of sail,
has a lot of bouyancy built in and in the strong quartering tailwinds that
characterise the T200 course at that time of year should be a fun ride.
Here are some of Phils pics from the Saturday Night Special Facebook
page, you can see more over there. Thanks Phil.
John, the antenna is heading to twelve SNS. Total donated materials is for six loaner boats plus it looks like we will have six privately built and sailed SNS as well. I am hoping for more of course! Jackie Monies
ReplyDeleteAnte! ANTE! Not antenna!
ReplyDeleteAnte! ANTE! Not antenna!
ReplyDeleteJohn, the antenna is heading to twelve SNS. Total donated materials is for six loaner boats plus it looks like we will have six privately built and sailed SNS as well. I am hoping for more of course! Jackie Monies
ReplyDeleteTwelve boats? Wow! Possibly more? More Wow!
ReplyDeleteAntenna, not ante? I think that "antenna" is better, then we could "broadcast" the event.
Why dont we run a little poll here, should we think about a fleet colour scheme?
ReplyDeleteI rather admired the yellow ducks from last year and wonder if we could encourage the SNS owners to go for a plain bright primary colour. Different ones but all plain, bright, orange, blue, green, yellow or red, how about magenta or high viz flouro orange or yellow?
Thoughts anyone?