Could everyone write one simple essay about something that once happened in Saltaire…that they saw or were a part of…and put it on one big website? Somebody should collect a lot of stories before we all forget. Otherwise it is like a line in “On The Beach” : The history of the war that now would never be written.” -(JO'H)

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Sailboat Query


Does this watercolor depict a "Cape Cod Runabout?"






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the eagle eye of an expert replies
Hey! Nice Picture BUT:
Similar, not a match!This boat has a backstay and a short boom The Cape Cod Knockabouts have very long booms and no backstay!
---Richard McM
More responses:
Could be although its really hard to tell since this is a work of art. My hunch is no.
---Edie Watts Whitney
Definitely not. Boom is way too short. Remember "Jibe ho" on a CC and ducking your head, so as not to be knocked overboard when the boom swung over during a jibe?
Also most people don't clip a halyard to the end of the boom, rather they put it up by the mast, so in this painting, it must be a stay, and we never had stays from the top of the mast to the end of the boom. CC Knockabout, not Runabout.
---- Patsy O’Shea


The picture is very similar but not quite a Cape Cod Knockabout -- the boatin the picture has two side stays on each side and our boat had only one oneach side. You might like to go to Explorer and enter Cape Cod KnockaboutSailboat -- amazing what I found!!

----Jean Parmelee

Richard McM is correct. Furthermore, the class Cape Cod Knockabout, not Runabout. --COSMO, Editor

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey! Nice Picture BUT:

Similar, not a match!

This boat has a backstay and a short boom

The Cape Cod Knockabouts have very long booms and no backstay!

Richard McM

cosmo said...

Richard McM is correct. Furthermore, the class Cape Cod Knockabout, not Runabout.