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Back when I was a kid I would have had fishing gear and a. He has enough sail to move alright, has two bunks and a little stove, and storage room to carry all sorts of things. I think a couple of kids could really have a ball with STUART here. You could raise the house a few inches but not much or you’ll kill the appearance. Simple interior has about 4′ 7″ headroom. In fact, I think he’s considerably more seaworthy than a number of similar sized boats that have crossed oceans in recent years. STUARTis a real boat, and a kid could cruise him without worrying the mother to much, because he’s built like a tank and would be very hard to sink. The idea is for a simple little boat that a kid could help his, or hers, of course, Dad (and these days maybe mother) nail together over a winter. Summer vacation found me out in the lake for days at a time.Īnyway, it was remembrances of those days, coupled with boozy sorrow that old MI is gone and it’s “replacement” chooses to devote themselves to yuppie remodel jobs, that prompted the design for STUART LITTLE.
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We lived near a very large lake, and my mother would drop me, a friend, and the boat off on Friday afternoon after school, and pick us up Sunday afternoon.
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This “El Toro” sailboat was my introduction to cruising. My mother suddenly had images of me being cut to bits by the prop, so within a week she had traded the hydro off to a neighbor for an 8′ sailboat. On my second time out, I flipped the thing. We had an old Sears Roebuck 12 HP outboard, which was probably twice the power the boat needed. Little more than two sheets of plywood, this thing caught my fancy, and I talked my father into helping me build it. Well, when I was 11 or 12, Mechanix Illustrated ran the plans for a little hydroplane called Minimax. Although I’d guess there’s many half built boats languishing in old barns across the country, lots were actually built too. It seemed that boat plans were printed almost monthly designs by people like Chapelle, Garden, Rabhl, and the like. Adults too! It was MI that first ran the plans for the Tahiti Ketch, and thousands of them were built. Back when I was a kid Mechanix Illustrated magazine was part of my regular reading because they always had plans for some project or another that would get a kid’s imagination going.