| Sallie Hyde A 22' 3" V-Bottom Seabright Skiff By William & John Atkin |
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| A V-Bottom Seabright Skiff | |
| Sallie Hyde is an exceptionally able and comfortable open motorboat--a small boat which will prove ideal for many purposes: fishing, day cruising or earning a living for some water minded man. For the latter it may be of interest to know that the draft of this latest of the family is only 1 foot 4 inches, carrying the weight of two grown-ups as crew. The over all length of Sallie Hyde is 22 feet 3 inches; the water line length is 20 feet; the extreme breadth, 6 feet 10 inches; and the draft as given above. The freeboard at the bow is 3 feet 6 1/2 inches, the least freeboard, 1 foot 11 inches, and the freeboard at the stern, 2 feet 5 inches. The depth amidships from gunwales to top of keel is 2 feet 11 inches; and so one can see she is a very big little boat. People aboard sit well down in the boat thus assuring a sense of security to the crew, to say nothing of placing the center of gravity of the live load where it should be in any small boat -- low. | |
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| The deck plan shows a truly open boat: no decking, only inwales, edge of sheer strakes and fender mouldings forming the deck edge of the topsides. There is a cockpit both forward and abaft the motor housing, the well deck forming seats and a very comfortable place for sun bathing forward. Gasoline tanks are installed both sides beneath the well deck, motor controls are on the enginehouse and the little packet steers with a handy certain-and-sure tiller. The original plans showed for power a two-cylinder four-cycle medium-speed Palmer marine engine, model H.H.; approximately 12 h.p. at modest turns per minute. However, a Gray Lugger 162 was installed in the first boat. The designed speed with the Palmer engine is 9 miles an hour. The Gray, of course, propels the skiff somewhat faster than this, but develops more power than is required which, after all, has its advantages. | |
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Sallie Hyde has all the worthwhile characteristics of the old fashioned and dependable Sea Bright fishing skiff; the bold sheer line, raking stem and stern, box deadwood, flat bottomed double-ended keel, and outdoor rudder. Two big changes, however, are noticeable; she is of V-bottom model and carvel (smooth)-planked. Since long before the Civil War all the famous Jersey coast skiffs have been of round bilge model and clinker planked. Therefore the design of Sallie Hyde is a development of the old timers. Sallie Hyde's plans include two sets of lines. One set for low power, the other for anyone wishing speeds up to 16 miles an hour. | |
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| Plans for Sallie Hyde are $75 Study Plans are available for $15 (Refunded when full plans are purchased) Please Use Our PRINT-OUT ORDER FORM To Request Boat Plans | |
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