Re: Unidentified subject!

hlg@pacbell.net
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 23:46:40 -0700


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Drew:

Congratulations on your "new" boat! If your Potter has a lazarette (locker
in the stern) it was sold as a 14 footer. All subsequent models were sold
as 15 footers, but the hulls are all the same length. They started
including the outboard bracket in the overall length in order to market the
boat as a 15 footer, or so I've heard.

I just looked at an old brochure for the first non-gunter-rigged Potter 14.
The boat on the brochure is the factory prototype apparently and is number
460. So you likely have the fourth aluminum-masted Potter that was built.
I'd be interested to know if your mast steps on the cabintop or through the
cabintop. I've heard rumors that the first non-gunter Potters had masts
that penetrated the cabintop and stepped on the cabin sole, as did the
wooden masts of the gunter rigs. If so, your mast is about 3 ft longer than
the later ones, which must make it interesting to step and trailer.

Your boat's original mainsail was three-sided like the earlier gunter rigs,
but the new, larger, four-sided sails can be used.

Harry Gordon
P14 #234, Manatee
Mountain View, CA

> Hello all, I just bought a West Wight Potter! Haul number 463. I
>believe it is a fourteen footer although the man selling thought it was a
>fifteen. Anyone have any history on this boat? I will be sailing in
>eastern North Carolina and the Chesapeake (my parents live in the
>Chesapeake). I would like to name the boat "Ringle" if there is not
>already one. The name comes from Jack Aubrey's tender in the last few
>Patrick O'Brian novels. See you one the Water! Best Regards,
>Drew E. Schenck
>www.WAKEHOMES.com
>1-800-326-3562 ext.. 151