Schoolboyheart
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Not mine but cool old girl!
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/boa/d/seattle-ericson-37-cutter-thin-air/6839343216.html
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/boa/d/seattle-ericson-37-cutter-thin-air/6839343216.html
The E37 is a great boat. Spent lots of time racing one, back in the day.
I'm not sure, though, why they refer to this as a "cutter". It was designed to be competitive in the IOR "1-ton" class, and has pretty typical rig proportions for that era. Definitely not a cutter in the traditional sense - cutters normally have the mast set farther aft than on a sloop, and are set up for inner staysails...
Bruce
Regarding the question about a fire with a diesel engine..... there is a Newport 30 moored near me that had a smoky and destructive engine compartment fire several summers ago. Yup. Original Universal with the wiring harness and those cursed "trailer connectors". They lost their summer vacation time, - had to towed in and the boat trucked home, but a year later did end up with all new wiring and it is now 'better than ever'.
My theory (and if you do like that one I have others...) is that electrical fires due to ancient connections and wiring chafe are becoming a larger concern than flooding, per se, as all boats age. Especially boats from the 80's with oodles of wiring runs and odd connections to give owners lots of new-fangled interior luxuries as the market tried to move "upwards" --- without investing too much more in design, labor, or parts.
The higher end builders like EY, did a better job of this, but it was still a bell-curve of reliability.
Gotta say, if I were 20 years younger, I would for sure be headed up to Seattle to look at that sexy E-37. Just sayin' .......
I I noticed that one of the diagrams at sailboatdata shows a cutter rig with sail areas for the foresails
Yeah, I noticed that too. It was pretty common in that era for IOR boats to use a double-head rig (big 150% high-clew "jib top", plus a low aspect-ratio genoa staysail raised on the topping lift) when close-reaching at angles too narrow to fly the "star-cut" reaching spinnaker.
Any thoughts on that??
I think there's some optical-illusion going on in that photo. The staysail is almost certainly tacked to a fitting (probably the pad-eye for the spinnaker-pole foreguy) on the centerline of the foredeck.
That double-head rig was remarkably effective in close-reaching conditions. In light air (as in that photo) you'd get the benefit of a "double slot", which was pretty magical. In more breeze, that double-head rig was a way of staying powered up without creating a lot of heeling and weather helm - it pushed the center-of-effort forward and low, and turned most of the wind into speed instead of drag.
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