Brochures and
Articles About Discontinued Models of the
West Wight PotterOld
Potter Brochures Old
Potter
Brochures
by Harry Gordon
Click on small images to see
full-size versions. The full size
versions may appear oversize for
viewing on screen easily, but should be
legible if printed out on a
printer of at least 300
dpi.
U.S-Built
Gunter-Rigged Potters - HMS Marine, Inglewood,
California
The
brochures included here cover the early models of
the West Wight
Potter manufactured by HMS Marine in Inglewood,
California. All were
fiberglass and gunter-rigged with wooden spars and
were marketed as
14 footers.
Gunter-Rigged
Potter 14
No. 151
Was this the first U.S. built Potter? The
sail
numbers appearing on the photos on the front of the HMS Marine
brochures
appear to mark the beginning of the series described in the
brochure,
suggesting the first U.S.-built Potter was numbered "151."
(However,
there has been a report of a #145 for sale in Middlesex,
New York, which
may or may not be a U.S.-built Potter.)
Gunter-Rigged Potter 14 No. 210
Appears
basically similar to #151.
Gunter-Rigged
Potter 14 No.
300
A more refined version that includes a
sliding hatch
UK-Built Gunter-Rigged Potters
The C
Type West Wight Potter
- Marine Laminates, Isle of Wight
The C Type
Glass Slipper - West Wight Marine, Isle of Wight
This
brochure is interesting because the boat is described as a C Type
and
it appears similar to the C Type Potter in the brochure above,
also
built on the Isle of Wight. (In fact, it uses the same photo of
#66.)
However, this C Type is called a "Glass Slipper," not a
"Potter." The
brochure uses the "WW" logo like the one Stanley Smith
used for his West
Wight Plycraft Potter and which was used by HMS
Marine for Herb
Stewart's gunter-rigged Potters except the logo does
not include the "P"
for "Potter." The sail emblem is a slipper
instead of the WWP logo. (The
original "WWP" logo is shown at the top
of this page.) Nowhere in the
brochure does the name "Potter" appear.
This brochure was sent to me by
Steve Oliveira, who owns Glass Slipper
Mydaoff #79.
For
photos of another C-Type ("Glass Slipper" or "Potter"?) see
Derek
Treuer's Frodo.
The D
Type West Wight Potter "Ghia"- The Potter Boat Company,
Durham
City
The following are articles rather than brochures.
The first was
reproduced in The Potter Yachter, but I don't
know its origin.
The article does not refer to the boat as a D Type,
but that is
suggested by the sail emblem. The article mentions that
the boat has a
"C-Type cabin." The second article is from the Dinghy
Cruising
Association in the UK and was contributed by Tom Grimes. The
author
describes his D-type Potter, identified as a "Ghia"
version. 
The following clipping from an old
Potter Yachter shows
the junk-rigged D-type option.
British Potter Junk conversion
Potter AX
A wooden Potter appeared
again in the early nineties
with the design and production of the
Potter AX by Martin Pook.It is no
longer in production. Photos of the
Potter AX may be seen on the WWP web
page at
http://community.fortunecity.com/marina/westindia/515/photos/British/British_potter.htm
The
following is a copy of a 1995 (or earlier) display ad for the
Potter
AX. The ad appeared in the UK publication, The Boatman.
(Click on
this image to see larger version.)
The Sparrow
Not
actually a Potter, the 12-ft Sparrow was also built and sold by HMS
Marine, the Potter manufacturer. The following HMS Marine flyer for
the Sparrow credits Herb Stewart as the designer. Herb
created the
U.S. version of the Potter 14 and designed the HMS-18
(Potter 19).
The Sparrow had a shoal draft fixed keel. The Sparrow was 2
feet
shorter overall than the P-14 but was only a few inches shorter
at
the waterline. Also note that the jib is larger than the
mainsail
The Sparrow was later
manufactured by Sparrow Yachts in Washington. Addiltional
photos of a Sparrow
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