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Nonetheless, the Ferriby Heritage Trust describe Ferriby Boat 3 as Europe's oldest known seacraft. [4] Outline of a Ferriby boat. The BBC television programme Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath Pt 2, broadcast on BBC Two in September 2014, describes the boat as seagoing and describes the tons of cargo it could have taken across the Channel.
The South Coast 26 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a masthead sloop rig; a raked stem; a reverse transom; a transom-hung, vertically-lifting wooden rudder controlled by a tiller and a lifting keel with a weighted bulb.
The Pacific Seacraft 25 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a simulated lapstrake canoe hull, a spooned raked stem, an angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed modified long keel, with a cutaway forefoot. It displaces 5,700 lb (2,585 kg) and carries 1,750 lb (794 ...
The boat is supported by an active class club that organizes racing events, the South Coast Seacraft Owners' Association. [6] In a 2010 review Steve Henkel, who completed and sailed a kit South Coast 23 with his wife, wrote, "best features: Carl Alberg did a good job designing a graceful-looking hull with springy sheer and relatively low freeboard.
The boat is supported by an active class club that organizes racing events, the South Coast Seacraft Owners' Association. [5] In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "best features: Headroom is an acceptable 5' 6", but with the poptop-type hatch in the elevated position, headroom increases to 6" 1", very good for a 25-footer.
A 2010 review note, "Bill Crealock the designer of the Dana was simply a genius. When he designed the Dana back in the early 1980s he was about 65 years old and he used all his hard earned experience gained from a lifetime of creating and sailing yachts. The Dana may well have been one of the last yachts designed without the aid of a computer." [8]
Crealock's other well-known designs included the Westsail 42, the Crealock 34 and 37, the Pacific Seacraft 31 and the Dana 24. [12] In 2002, the Pacific Seacraft 37, designed by Crealock, was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame. [9] Crealock said the most unusual vessel he was ever commissioned to design was a large bottle.
In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "Hollis Metcalf, owner of South Coast Seacraft, was a southern gentleman who sold a South Coast 23 kit to my wife and me in 1964 ... Metcalf, who had commissioned Carl Alberg to design the SC21, wanted to market a similar but more spacious and more easily trailerable version, and ended up designing the SC22 ...