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Does anyone recognize this design?

Submitted by Birch2 - Sun, 9/8/19 » 12:31 PM

I was on a bike ride across the lake from my cabin and I was ecstatic to see a boat in a carport that I at first thought to be Autumn Leaves. Nobody was home so I couldn't ask about it and I felt too guilty sneaking into the carport to snap more than one quick photo. It looked too me like a slightly larger version of Autumn Leaves. The basic design was a narrow Bolger box. The cabin has two ports so it might be slightly larger than the one on Autumn Leaves. There was a well for a small outboard motor. It appears to have only a single, tall mast.

Here is a link to a photo.

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RE: Does anyone recognize this design?

» Submitted by Gramps - Sun, 9/8/19 » 3:10 PM

I'm pretty sure that is a Bay Hen, one of the "Hen" boats (including the diminutive Peep Hen) originally from designer Reuben Trane's Floriday Bay Boatworks.

https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/bay-hen-21

Oh, the fun we had looking at the quirky ads in the old Small Boat Journal, gone but not forgotten by boat nuts old enough to remember.

.....Michael

RE: Does anyone recognize this design?

» Submitted by Birch2 - Sun, 9/8/19 » 4:42 PM

Thanks so much for the info, Michael. Now if I see him on the water (and if I can remember the info), I'll seem to be a very knowing old salt when I hail him and speak about his boat's name and designer. Or maybe I'll forget everything in my moment of excitement. But I am very eager to see his boat on the water this fall.

Jeff