Here’s an unusual vessel about to launch at Naskeag Point and motor up to Great Cove to moor. She’s a stitch-and-glue constructed Lichen 20 designed to be easily transported and to sail primarily in relatively calm waters.
Her name is Gulley Jimson, the name of the talented but disreputable artist in Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth (1944). She’s a 20-foot cruising sailboat with a pram (flat) bow for extra cabin space, a vee-bottomed hull for a good draft, and a relatively narrow 7’8” beam (widest width) for “trailerability.”
Gulley also has a large open cockpit, a mast that pivots up or down on a tabernacle, extra-large portholes, and a huge “barn-door” rudder. She was designed and built by Sam Devlin, who has a boatbuilding company on the shores of the Puget Sound in Washington and who is part of the faculty at the WoodenBoat School. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 19 and 24, 2023.)