Tahiti Ketch MELVILLE

Description Designer: John Griffin Hanna , born in Galveston, Texas, October 12, 1889. In 1917 he moved to Dunedin, Florida, USA, where, the purchase of a boat Greek sponge fisherman, symmetrical ends, and his detailed study gave him the ideas which would later lead to the Tahiti Ketch model. This specific book tells the story of the designer and his boats (a copy of the book is on the MELVILLE).      The principle of this boat was to offer plans for a dream boat (and why not from Tahiti, the island that made Gauguin dream?!), and which could be built by amateurs in their free time. It was the time of the Great Depression in the United States, and plans for large, expensive yachts were not in the news.   The hull pointed at both ends, rigged in ketch and cutter, horned mainsail and marconi mizzen. It was a traditional but modern plan for the time (we are in 1923, the date of the launch of the first Tahiti Ketch named Neptune). Its well-defended bow allows it to ...