Designed by Chester A. Nedwidek
An answer to the auxiliary question combining equal parts motor boat with a substantial sailing rig simply arranged for the amateur boat builder.
The design for this boat is that of an increasingly popular type, the fifty-fifty cruiser or motor-sailer. Although most of them have been raised deck, this one was designed as a trunk cabin, which gives a hull with much lower freeboard than the raised deck. The ketch rig is for ease of handling under sail, and the power plant is intended to be much larger than the usual size engines installed in auxiliaries. This type of boat will appeal to the man who wants a good husky wholesome boat, one that will stay with him in all kinds of weather. She will make a good fishing and party boat with her large, roomy cockpit. Instead of an outside ballasted keel, she is to carry her ballast inside. This can, be accomplished in various ways. Cement can be poured into the bilge with boiler punchings in the cement, iron can be cast in the form of pigs of a handy size to stow, or these pigs can be of lead. The weight should run around four thousand pounds, this will allow for a small amount of trimming ballast. The boat was designed as a Vee bottom to make it easy for the amateur boat-builder to construct it himself, and every item of her construction has been kept as simple as possible. The offset table gives the dimensions for all the main frames. These frames may be laid out and the hull built around them which will save the bother of making moulds.
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