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The folding schooner is actually two 15'6" skiffs secured end to end. For compact storage and trailing the forward hull hinges back over to lie on the after one. ... She can be launched and hauled up without wetting the trailer wheel bearings. Two people are needed to sail her, but she can carry many more. She's an extremely fast and able boat for her cost. Built-in foam buoyancy is adequate to float her high if swamped or capsized. With a 4 H.P. motor she will run six to eight knots depending on load, using very little fuel. Construction is on the old flat-iron skiff principal in which the sides and frames are precut from diagrams furnished, without lofting, and assembled directly with no need for a building jig. Fourteen sheets of 1/4" x 4' x 8' plywood plus stock-size fir stringers and frames are needed. The masts, 15'6" and 14' long, are from stock 4 x 4 fir. No wire and only two blocks are needed in rigging; the only special fittings are the welded steel hinge brackets connecting the hulls. [HH Payson, 1973.] |
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