The next boat

The fall is a great time to start thinking about a new boat project.  We have started a new SUP plug.  It is a longer touring board. Sups are great and all, we love them.  But a boat is a bigger deal to build and it is exciting to plan.
This is our list of ideas:
-The Albemarle Sound seine boat (ASSC page 257)
-A modern planing hull form along the lines of and Open Bic, but for an adult (read 190 pound dude).
-A mellon seed type hull with slightly larger dimensions.
-An inboard diesel or electric powered Rescue Minor derivative.


      The Albemarle Sound boat is in Howard Chapelle's American Small Sailing Craft (ASSC) page 256. Here is a plate image of it:

  

      It has beautiful lines, I love the home waters.  It would be fun curvy shape to mold.
It was built in sizes ranging from 18 to 30 feet,  a bit big for our current space. It might be the right boat to build next go round.

Two piece gudgeon through bolted
(we hope) to plastic (lame) 

     A planning skiff like the Open Bic is just a fun idea all the way around.  It is a great "one design" built by the giant French corporation known for pens.  It is like the Laser was.  A modern new design that is very popular.  But it is for the youth market being so small.
Some things I don't like about the current trend in small production one designs we will addressed.  Number 1:  roto molding yuck!

Open Bic  (9 foot, nice form)
Roto molding (lame)

Mainly roto molding.  But these are other things we will do differently.

Handle (thumbs up)

Skid plate (nice idea, we will follow through with kevlar)

The Mellon Seed (page 208 ASSC) is a beautiful boat with a couple of current builders producing variations of it.  Google it.  Tempting.

The Rescue Minor falls into the too large for now category.  I like William Atkin's concept of this shallow draft boat.  But fell for it hard when I saw Robb White's version of it.
Here is a photo from his site:

http://www.robbwhite.com/rescue.minor.html

So it looks like we will be building a small sailboat hopefully soon.