Carriacou Sloops

[Rum_Pirate]

Sorry about the picture quality I scanned them from a leaflet.

What do you think of the sloops?

 

[puddock]

I am no expert but that looks beautiful

 

[Rum_Pirate]

They claim 'scottish' heritage.

However to me they look reminiscent of smacks?

 

[sarabande]

there is something very comforting about seeing boats with bulwarks. Very seamanlike.

 

[Poignard]

Very atractive. It resembles Slocomb's "Spray".

 

[Rum_Pirate]

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Any suggestions to the closest Uk/english smack/boat design similar to those pictured?

 

[sarabande]

some patrimony from the Bristol Pilot cutters, I think.

http://www.pilotcutter.co.uk/pilotcutters.html

 

[Bajansailor]

Just a very motley collection of links re Carriacou sloops.

Here is Jambalaya, a slightly larger schooner rigged version of the Carriacou sloops - http://www.windwardschooner.com/about.htm

And here is the re-launch of the 50' Carriacou sloop Tradition at Windward last year - all accomplished using 'Norwegian steam' (ie people power) - http://imagesantigua.blogspot.com/2008/11/re-launch-of-tradition.html
The gents with the machetes are 'cutting down' - systematically cutting down the props on one side to allow her to slowly lean over on to the turn of the bilge.
Douglas Pyle notes in his book 'Clean Sweet Wind' how it seems to be a recipe for disaster with the rate of cutting down being determined mainly by the number of pulls the cutters have had at the bottle of jack iron rum..... but it all averages out ok in the end!
And then everybody joins in together and pushes her in to the water.

Rum Pirate, are your photos from these books by Alexis Andrews?
http://imagesantigua.blogspot.com/2008/06/carriacou-sloops-vol-i-ii-now-available.html

Here is an article from the Caribbean Compass about the launch of the sloop Genesis 5 years ago - http://www.caribbeancompass.com/sloopgenesis.htm

Another article by Alexis about Summer Wind - http://www.westindiesregatta.com/Latest News/67E709F3-FA68-40C5-A23E-C338BF902A21.html

Lots of nice photos of Carriacou sloops at the various Antigua regattas on Tim Wright's Photoaction website - http://www.photoaction.com/index-1.html

Here is the lines plan of Mermaid taken from Clean Sweet Wind - she was the Carriacou sloop to beat in the 70's, and it was principally because of her that there was such a resurgence of interest in the Carriacou sloops.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Rum Pirate, are your photos from these books by Alexis Andrews?

I picked up the paper brochure from adventureantigua.com when I passed through Antigua this week.

 

[Kilter]

Lovely boats! Wish I was there!

 

[Kilter]

Image pinched from 2gringos blog!

 

[john_q]

I have been lucky enough to sail on the schooner Jambalya a few times (once in the Antigua Classis) and can confirm she will do 11 - 12 knots given the right breeze and it is good to see that they are now putting together more sloops ( restorations and new builds)

 

[TQA]

I was in Tyrrel Bay boatyard today sorting out a haul date for my boat when I spotted Genesis having a bum extension.

Master shipwright of Carriacou, Alwyn Enoe and his three sons were hard at work giving her a bit more waterline length possibly prompted by the upstarts who were sailing past her in the regattas.

 

[dur]

The itinerant part of swmbo's family were over there earlier in the year and wrote about the sloops on their blog
http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2010/04/carriacou-boat-building/

 

[Bajansailor]

Genesis does look very nice - and I am sure she will look even prettier with a longer stern.
However I would be worried about what appears to be a rather short over-lap of the new hull planks onto the old hull - I would prefer to see some much longer planks to have the joints staggered rather than having all of the joints relatively close together.
I hope they installed some substantial new stringers inside to act as cantilevers to support the weight of this new stern, otherwise they might later on develop that common affliction of Carriacou sloops and schooners called 'Starn droop'.

PS - Thank you Dur for that interesting link to Mollymawk's b-log.