Gibban

I walk the Harrison portage. It has been a week since my last trip, a week of clouds and rain combined with wind. It is a black and white bird day on the big lake. A cormorant (black) surfaces far too close to me as I load the canoe. I wonder how far it has come beneath the water to make such an error. A contingent of buffleheads (black and white) float a bit farther out. Just far enough that I do not threaten them. As I kneel in the canoe and move off from shore, a crow (black) bids me farewell from somewhere inside one of the evergreens. Moving north on calm water I come across some goldeneyes (black and white for all intensive purposes). A cormorant (black) takes off with a pied billed grebe (gray) in formation and I think that I have never seen a pied billed grebe fly. I may be wrong. At the point of the bay, I stop on the shore of the rich townhouses. I find a plastic 5 gallon pail and half fill it with other debris and then leave it for the groundskeeper amongst a fifteen stored ...

This pretty boat is a bit out of character with typical Sparkman & Stephens designs of the period. The sale was generated out of our then Boston office but I can see most of the plans were created in New York. The boat was built by Simms Brothers of Dorchester, Massachusetts and launched in 1936. Here are the plans from what appear to be some marketing materials. Double click on the general arrangement for zoom. Principal Dimensions LOA 35'-0" LWL 28'-0" Beam 9'-4" Draft 5'-5"