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Saudades
| Former Names | Merry Savage |
| Rig type | Schooner |
| Rig description | Bald-headed Cat Schooner |
| LOD | 19' 4" |
| LOA | 19' 10" |
| LWL | 18' 8" |
| Beam | 7' 2" |
| Draft: maximum | 3' 6" |
| Draft: minimum | |
| Sail area | |
| Gross tons | |
| Designer | Traditional |
| Design | |
| Builder | Blake Brothers Boatbuilders |
| Launched | 1985 |
| Planking | straight run sassafras |
| Framing | White oak, locust stem, keel, sternpost |
| Fastenings | copper rivets/bronze |
| Power plant | 12' sassafras sweeps |
| Charter | No |
| Primary home port city | Wickford |
| Primary home port state | RI |
| Primary home port country | United States |
| Primary home port season | |
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| Secondary home port state | |
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| Affiliation | |
| Web site | |
| Owner | Amaral, John D. |
| Former owners | Farbanish, Tom |
| Comments | "Saudades" is Portuguese for "nostalgia", as in "a longing for an earlier, happier, golden age." Solid spruce masts, oiled. Sassafras boom and short gaffs, beige. Handmade locust blocks, foresail lizards, belaying pins & thole pins, oiled. Internal lead ballast. Traditional green hull, beige shear plank, oiled oak gunnels, tiller & comb, black walnut thwarts, grey decks, red bottom, tanbark sails, synthetic hemp cordage (tan).
Traditional to Block Island fishermen. Lines taken off last Block Island Double Ender hulk lying ashore on Block Island, 1948 by Paule Loring & George Cunha. Lines published by Howard Chapelle in American Small Sailing Craft, 1951 |
