Some issues ago I reported that, on Phil Bolger s recommendation, I was to build a June Bug as tender to Sylvester . I completed Tweety Pie some weeks ago and am very pleased with the result. If, like me, you plan to keep your Chebacco out on a mooring in open water, and need to row against tides to get there, then the June Bug is perfect. As well as using the Tweety Pie as a tender, I ve also enjoyed rowing her for pleasure in the Tay Estuary - sometimes with a passenger. Instuctions for building the June Bug appear in Dynamite Payson s book Build the new instant boats .
Lateral resistance is provided by leeboards.
Interestingly, Scottish designer Iain Oughtred was reported in Classic Boat magazine as having Black Skimmer as one of his top ten favourite designs of all time. The new design, first of a class, we hope and think, is well along in construction. At the mast head three blocks are needed - one for the peak halyard, one for the throat halyard and one for the topping lift. I put three stainless eye-bolts through the mast head, as attachment points for the blocks. The eyes for the peak anad throat halyard blocks are on the aft side of the masthead, and the eye for the topping lift block is on the port side.