Hedgepig background.....
Designed for Tim Jones as a river boat without excessive compromise on open water.
I sketched a number of shapes until I came up with the final one.
It was designed to carry a moderate amount of weight and to have a little more rocker aft than was the trend at the time - Baggy 2 being the boat of reference then.
As a river boat tacking was important so the idea was to keep the waterline as smooth and narrow as possible with a fine straight entry like Pipedream but fuller however there was a definite attempt to put displacement into the topsides around 8ft. The objective was to give as much rocker as possible when the sheerline was on the water, hence reducing turning drag and speeding up tacking.
The final shape was passed by Rob Peebles who suggested a little more width to the garboard planks in the last two sections and that is what was finally built.
She was built by Tim and David, Martin Gunn and Peter Shore in Hucknall.
I do not think there is anything much wrong with the shape but I wanted a pure open water boat at the time and built Redshift 3270, effectively a Baggy 2 in 3 planks.
Very fast on flat water when windy but too light a dsiplacement - very VERY slow when it was light.
Designed for Tim Jones as a river boat without excessive compromise on open water.
I sketched a number of shapes until I came up with the final one.
It was designed to carry a moderate amount of weight and to have a little more rocker aft than was the trend at the time - Baggy 2 being the boat of reference then.
As a river boat tacking was important so the idea was to keep the waterline as smooth and narrow as possible with a fine straight entry like Pipedream but fuller however there was a definite attempt to put displacement into the topsides around 8ft. The objective was to give as much rocker as possible when the sheerline was on the water, hence reducing turning drag and speeding up tacking.
The final shape was passed by Rob Peebles who suggested a little more width to the garboard planks in the last two sections and that is what was finally built.
She was built by Tim and David, Martin Gunn and Peter Shore in Hucknall.
I do not think there is anything much wrong with the shape but I wanted a pure open water boat at the time and built Redshift 3270, effectively a Baggy 2 in 3 planks.
Very fast on flat water when windy but too light a dsiplacement - very VERY slow when it was light.
