She’s Robb White the boatbuilder’s sister, the daughter of Robb White the author (Robb the boatbuilders dad). Robb White the elder wrote a bunch of novels (Up Periscope is one) and also a lot of the old Perry Mason TV show episodes. Confusing, eh?
Jerry Barth
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Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:56 AM
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FYI
June Bailey White is Robb's daughter, not his sister..
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Jerry Barth <shredderf16@
Tom,
I’m a big fan of Robb White and his fascinating family. I go down to the BVIs a lot and have seen the house his mother and father built on Marina Cay. For those of you not familiar with him, his sister Bailey White has written some very good books. Robb’s last book “Flotsam and Jetsam” just came out a couple of months ago, edited by his sister after his death. It’s well worth the $10 at Amazon. The pictures I’ve seen of Rescue Minor running fast in 6 inches of water are very interesting. I wonder if you would have to get the boat up on a plane to get that shoal draft like that, or would it do it at displacement speeds? I believe he said it got on a plane at about 10 knots, although I’d have to recheck to be sure. I’ve always wondered what happened to him, one month he was writing in Wooden Boat and the next month he had passed on.
Jerry Barth
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Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 9:32 AM
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Subject: [Electric Boats] electric prop and re-charging
Just joined 'electric boats'.
Over the next year & 1/2 I plan to built an 20 to 25 foot Atkins tunnel-stern, most likely the Everhope or Shoal Runner plan. I lived
Subsequently, we moved away from T'ville, and I started off with an 18ft basswood stripper canoe. Over the past 25 years I've constructed 9 canoe or bateau type boats, the largest being 20+ feet. After construction, most have been used for ten or twelve day fishing/canoeing treks in Georgia/Florida/
I also lived on the ICW at St. Simons for two years and talked to all sorts of folks traveling the ICW from New England or the Great Lakes to
A shallow draft motor boat with 150 to 250+ mile range or further became a long-term construction goal.
Construction for trip & use: a shallow draft Atkins hull using electric motor propulsion & a LARGE battery bank with a dual or triple re-charge system by: 1. generator, 2. plug-in, 3. perhaps solar.
Components off-the-shelf: E-tek electric motor, Honda generator &, hopefully, solar.
I've definitely decided to use an Atkins plan, due to the economic 'protected' prop and shallow draft of their tunnel-draft designs.
But for propulsion, any & all suggestions about the dependability & size needed for electric motors, generators and solar will be appreciated. And, of course, where to find such.
Thanks so much,
Tom H. Johnson, Jr.
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