SKETCHBOOK: "John's Faering Cruiser"

John C. Harris Designer

Commentary: 

After much hard work on the unusual Faering Cruiser, I still had some energy to fool with the idea, and doodled a version just for myself. It's longer and much heavier, with a thousand pounds of lead in a shallow keel. It was a nice design exercise and a fetching thing to look at, and yes, the keel is ample lateral resistance. I concluded the boat would be tender and wet, however, and it went no further. If you had deep cruising waters and a mooring, the hatchet-blade keel transplanted from a J-22 would stiffen her right up... (The nicer renderings are by Dillon Majoros.)


John's Faering Cruiser

John's Faering Cruiser

John's Faering Cruiser

John's Faering Cruiser

John's Faering Cruiser

John's Faering Cruiser

John's Faering Cruiser