any fool can design a bow - it takes a genius to design a good stern

[johnphilip]

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[interloper]

I never consciously thought about it before, but stern shape may have been a deciding factor in choosing the sailboats that I've owned. They both came with very attractive sterns, at least in my opinion. I then defiled the stern of the first with an outboard motor, and the stern of the second with a windvane.

 

[interloper]

Having thought about the thesis of this thread for a few more minutes, it occurs to me that there are indeed those who can't design a bow.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Having thought about the thesis of this thread for a few more minutes, it occurs to me that there are indeed those who can't design a bow.

Think they just had the plans upside down!

 

[BAtoo]

And some just get it right both ends, and the middle too

 

[dylanwinter]

I never consciously thought about it before, but stern shape may have been a deciding factor in choosing the sailboats that I've owned. They both came with very attractive sterns, at least in my opinion. I then defiled the stern of the first with an outboard motor, and the stern of the second with a windvane.

outboards have been good for sailors - but bad for boat aesthetics

Dylan

 

[mjcoon]

I came across this little phrase while researching about Albert Strange
...
any more suggestions

No, but there's an obituary, maybe apocryphal, in which an old salt imagined his deceased SWMBO "sailing across heaven with a stern prow and a proud stern"...

Mike.

 

[Ru88ell]

You've got to love your own back end....

 

[Blueboatman]

An 'ansome transom. As they used to say in Cornwall

 

[KellysEye]

>any fool can design a bow - it takes a genius to design a good stern


Well there must have been a lot of fools in the past if you look at the range of bow designs over the ages, you can tell the age of a boat by it's bow. Sterns have changed a lot too over time, does that make them fools too? In fact I don 't think any boat designers are fools other except perhaps Albert Strange for saying that.

 

[maby]

I hardly ever see the transom, but I do spend a lot of time in the cockpit and down in the cabins - don't want to waste a lot of space just to present an elegant stern to the people behind me!

 

[ripvan1]

Never tired of admiring the old girl's rear end

 

[Sailingsaves]

Victory and photo one get my vote.

 

[Sailingsaves]

Indeed - what a wonderful place from which to watch the day wake

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what boat is that? I do like stern cabins similar to that.

 

[Sailingsaves]

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no 6 from left gets my vote

 

[single]

Unusual?

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[claymore]

what boat is that? I do like stern cabins similar to that.

She is a Claymore. In fact, she is Claymore's Claymore, Claymore.

Alan Hill design.

 

[KristiferColumbus]

Unusual?

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That's amazing.Is it real or is it some sort of photo shopped thingee?

 

[uxb]

She is a Claymore. In fact, she is Claymore's Claymore, Claymore.

Alan Hill design.

A fyne shup, when's she getting weet?

 

[claymore]

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