Design
SEI
Designed by John Welsford
Welsford rows three or four hours a week and wanted a double-ender that would do that and also sail the eight miles to a friend's island and back in indifferent weather. Stability mattered as much as speed, since getting in and out from a high sea wall ends in a swim if the boat is tender. The shape came from a museum catalogue in Hardangerfjord in southern Norway: a small Viking-descended boat, double ended, three planks a side on a narrow flat bottom panel, about the right size and ready for modern construction. She is named for the whale once hunted there, and is wider with more flare than the original to get the steadiness he needed.
A 14 ft 8 in double-ender drawn for a designer who rows a great deal and wanted the grace of a pointed stern with it. Light at 72 kg, carrying 76 sq ft, and equally at home under oars or sail on a 5 ft 1 in beam.
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