My guess is "Moses boat" is one of those expressions that occurs to more
than one or two people and gets passed around. It hits someone with a
following and may well become "his" expression. Who knows... it's an
amusing line and that's fine.

On the matter of reverse transoms, boats like Perry's Nordic series will
slam and bang while merely at anchor and caught by a modest wake from
astern. The notion of presenting the slab that they do to a following
sea doesn't strike me (pun not intended) as the most sea-kindly idea.
OTOH, a dock neighbor's Nordic 40, with her much longer waterline, will
effectively do a horizon job on the Baba 35 or Tashiba 36. This same
boat, power sailing to windward in a near gale north of Tortola, got
through the seas but was not the dryest ride I've had.

Not having seen the Brewer piece, it's hard to comment on the notion of
comparing the three boats he chose but on the basis of experience on the
water, adding the HC38 to the mix leaves me wondering what he was
thinking. This is the quintessential "leaky teaky" (well, maybe I'll
give that title to the Island Trader, in which case HC's run a close
second), unable to sail out of their own way. Baba 35's do *not*
compare well to these boats because, quite simply, Baba 35's put these
boats to shame.

Harvey J. Karten wrote:
> Hi Rick,
> I don 't know where the phrase "Moses" boats started, but Perry used
> the term to tease devotees of double enders in their belief that it
> "parts the waters of a following sea". Pretty grandiose notion when a
> breaking 15-20 footer is quickly overtaking your stern. The neat thing
> about the Perry design is that he added a lot more bustle to the
> stern, giving it a lot of buoyancy, and helping lift the stern with a
> following sea. As he has often said, the double ender is mostly a
> matter of esthetics. I sometimes do wonder, however, if the
> contemporary reverse transom with stern entry may provide too large
> and flat a surface for a following sea, and increase the surface that
> would be hit by a breaking wave on the aft. But countering that
> effect, is that most modern stern entries also carry wide beam all the
> way to the stern, thus adding a beneficial buoyancy (as well as wide
> aft cabins!), and longer waterlines.
>
> The lovely and extremely well designed and constructed Pacific
> Seacraft series by Crealock are canoe sterns, but have narrow stern
> ends, rather than the full bustle of Perry and Huntingford designs.
> Perry also likes a marked tumblehome curve to the stern. He directly
> attributes this to Aage Nielsen's designs. A very useful comparison of
> various double enders by Ted Brewer was recently published in "Good
> Old Boat" magazine. He compared the Tayana 37, Pacific Seacraft 37 and
> the Hans Christian 38. I can't recall if he also mentioned the Baba,
> but his comments would certainly apply to the Baba 35.[...]

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