MELONSEED
SKIFF 13'4" - Built by Etienne Muller 2020 - Designed by
Selway Fisher - This is the first Selway Fisher Melonseed
13'4" to be launched.
I had been keen to build something with fine detail,
but did not want to put the effort into a boat that did not
have elegance and some pedigree. It also needed to be small,
as I will be launching and retrieving it single handed,
sometimes from rough slips. So I hunted You Tube for some
weeks and came across these sweet little boats that
date back in their evolution to the beginning of the
last century. The Melonseed Skiff. I chose the Selway
Fisher version because it has a centerboard, rather
than a dagger, and a CB always allows one a little
more variation in balancing the rig.
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