Today I received the following comment from Dennis about my previous entry: -
I like what you are doing with the blog, Ross. Great Stuff! On another note, did you get to sail EVE? What did you think of the design? -- Dennis
Well, I didn't sail the boat personally, but both of the hulls I built were finished off by their respective owners, and both have been sailed. One of them went on to be used in the Jody Foster film, "Nim's Island". As far as I know, the other one is still in the hands of the original owner.
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Eve 16 was a development that Mike Roberts carried out on his well-known
Green Island 15 design. What he did was to run the
Green Island 15 through his Maxsurf program and get the program to round-off the sharp edges of the straight-sided and flat bottomed
Green Island 15. Mike wanted the boat to be built as a strip planked hull, and I believe that at least one was done that way by an owner-builder.
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This is the first Eve 16 hull I built, showing the original sheer line, and in the process of being fitted out by the owner |
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Here she is heading out of the driveway on launching day |
However, both of the customers I had for the
Eve 16 were keen to try out my idea of having a strip planked bottom up to around the fairly hard turn of the bilge, and then change to glued lapstrake for the rest of the planking. Mike wasn't keen, but good-naturedly agreed to me doing it that way.
The results were excellent. The first boat was built as per the plan, using my planking method, but the second had a little extra hollow cut into the sheer at the request of the owner. If you look at the pictures, you can see that the sheer strake is a bit skinny in the middle, but the revised sheer line is more pleasant to the eye - the original looking a bit flat.
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This is an upside-down photo I took to check the new sheer line that we were marking on the second hull to be built. You can see that there is not too much hull to be cut away, but the visual difference was amazing. |
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The new sheer line being displayed just before I towed the hull to the owner for the finish work. This is the boat in the sailing photos, and the one which ended up in "Nim's Island" |
The boat that I saw sailing went very well indeed, and seemed to sail just as well as the
Green Island 15 which is not surprising given the origin of the hull, and the fact that the rigs and layout were identical.
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The second boat under sail in Manly Yacht Harbour |
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And another view of the same boat |
Now, I'm worried that everybody will go off and buy plans from Mike, so here are some pictures of some of my boats - after all, it is my website and you all get the pictures for free!
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A Phoenix III sailing powerfully on the west coast of U.S.A. It looks like she has a triangular mainsail, but it is just the angle of the sprit mainsail |
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Me sailing Periwinkle on launching day |
Ross: I love my Green Island 15 but I do not agree that is a "WEEL KNOWN" boat. You find only a few on the web and No support or web page. I would like to make some small modifications but imposible to contact Mike Roberts.
ReplyDeletehi there, i've been in contact with Mike, He's fully retired now and packed away most of his boat designing stuff. he's even shut down his website. I own a Green Island 15 and have just opened a Facebook page hoping to contact other owners and share info. the link is..https://www.facebook.com/greenisland15/
ReplyDeletesorry, forgot my name....Jeremy
DeleteThe link doesn't work. (i have a green island 15)
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