Yawl Boat #16/#77

Bob found the original of this smooth-planked yawl boat, along with a number of other boats, in an abandoned boat shop in Inverness, California. She is heavily built, but rows nicely once underway. Originally, these boats were designed and built by Beetle from New Bedford, Massachusetts for use as yawls for the scow schooners in California. "Bob was interested in any existing old boat. Not for comparison with a modern boat form but the boat for what it was. What the early men thought about it and what they did with the designing of the boats." Pete Baker