05-19-2022, 03:47 PM
On the May 14th trip, I got into a discussion with Mike Hazeltine (I think) about sailboat design. I mentioned sailing scows, which are popular one-design racers in the midwest, and he wasn't familiar with them.
They are a flat-bottomed sailboat with dual centerboards, kind of a displacement/planing hybrid. They've been described variously as looking like catfish, whale sharks or surfboards. When I was moving from Oregon to Massachusetts I got recruited to crew on one on Canyon Ferry Lake in Helena, Montana, and boy are they fast.
I thought folks might find this interesting so I looked them up and here is a Wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Scow
Cheers,
Cat
They are a flat-bottomed sailboat with dual centerboards, kind of a displacement/planing hybrid. They've been described variously as looking like catfish, whale sharks or surfboards. When I was moving from Oregon to Massachusetts I got recruited to crew on one on Canyon Ferry Lake in Helena, Montana, and boy are they fast.
I thought folks might find this interesting so I looked them up and here is a Wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Scow
Cheers,
Cat