Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival
@ Chesapeake Bay Marine Museum
by Perer Vanderwaart
October 2, 2004

Although I seem to have come away most with pictures of Bolger boats, there were many designed by Karl Stambaugh and Iain Oughtred.

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1. When I stopped at the last rest stop on the NJ Turnpike, I parked next to this Martha Jane. The owner acknowledged that he was on his way the the Small Craft Festival. I saw the boat in the water there but it did not leave the dock. He dis say that this was the first Martha Jane to be built, and it's looking in pretty good condition for its age.
2. Here is the first of two pictures to shown the general scene. A videographer would call these 'establishing shots." I think the boat in the foreground is one of Arch Davis's Penobscot 17's, although the rig is different from those shown on the web page. This boat was about the fastest sailer.
3. Here are some of the boats exhibited on land. Note the three nesting canoes in red and white. These were apparently whipped up by an imaginative builder in the last few weeks.
4. Here is the Ultimate Trailer Sailor. If you look carefully, you will see that it has mast/sail, centerboard and rudder. I'm not sure what the obstensible purpose was.
5. A Folding Schooner. It had a bow-up affect due to the heavy outboard motor.
6. A Lily and a Chebacco. I didn't catch sight of the Lily underway. The Chebacco is belongs to Ed Heins.
7. Richard Cullison's Bolger Wisp. This is a beautiful little slip of a thing. Very low sided.
8. A couple of unintended co-conspiritors. Bruce Hector is at left, looking left. New Zealand designer (and featured speaker) John Welsford is center, clutching a copy of his book. Third gentleman is unidentified. The boat is a Sherpa, of John's design.