Perhaps more than any other boat in my harbor, she is admired for her good looks people are always inquiring about the origins of this sloop named Martha. It was this sloop-rigged design that I built in 1967. Crocker designed her as a yawl in 1953 later, in 1955, a sloop-rigged version was drawn. 60), you were looking at perspectives of this boat, Sallee Rover. If you have studied Sam Manning's fine drawings for the "Anatomy of a Wooden Boat" in the tenth anniversary issue of WoodenBoat magazine (WB No. I had a great deal of enjoyment with the project, and the client enjoyed a great little boat for many years. In 1967, I was privileged to build the little sloop shown here for a rather special client.
He was a cruiser rather than a racer, a man well versed in practical yacht construction with a good knowledge of what makes a boat look "right." If my theory is correct, Sam Crocker must have been a practical, sensible man, one who enjoyed comfort and rugged good looks, a man who preferred simplicity to extravagance. I have built two boats to his design, and have stored and maintained several others in my boatyard. (Sam) Crocker, but over the years I have come to know a number of his boats. John Alden, ardent racer and deepwater sailor, took the fisherman-type schooner and modified the design into offshore yachts that were simple, strong, and economically appealing to the yachtsmen of the Depression years. Francis, was inventive, eccentric, a lover of beauty and simplicity he produced a number of beautiful and simple yachts as well as some that were more inventive than beautiful. Nat Herreshoff, genius designer, workaholic, a demon for speed, turned out a huge body of work, meticulously designed and crafted, fast and long-lived. have a theory, difficult to prove but intriguing to think about, that the best yacht designers are able to instill some of their character traits into their designs.
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