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SCOW BOW JUNK RIG 

Let your dreams take over your life

Don't let your life take over your dreams

Doesn't have a V berth...

42 ft 50 footer

Fifteen hundred years

Fifteen hundred years

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SCOW BOW

One of the original scow bow designs was by J.O. Johnson 1894 With little knowledge of what he was doing, he began his design at the White Bear Boat Works in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.  It had a radical dish design so it could skim across the top of the water and had a centerboard for stability.  Johnson then entered his boat in one of the regular scheduled Yacht Races in 1896.  It looked so different his friends laughed and teased him saying, “It looks like a slice of bread” and “It looks like a scow”.  This jeering was short-lived, however, as the Johnson Scow not only lapped the fleet, but was home with the sails down by the time the second place boat crossed the finish line.

JUNK RIG

Early as the 10th century, the Chinese were making their way across the oceans with a rig that has stood the test of the time.  It had a completely different looking sail plan, typically lacking any standing rigging (stays and shrouds).  The early Chinese engineers and designers appeared clearly way ahead of their time.  There are many who feel this very old but very innovative sail plan is superior to the more popular sloop rig and others.


MODERN SCOW BOW & JUNK RIG

In 1977, Barry Spanier began dreaming  about the concept of combining the scow bow and junk rig with modern technology, but didn't actually start to create the design until 2014.  With the help of Jim Antrim Designs and Cree Partridge of Berkeley Marine Center, the dream became a reality in January 2019 when construction started on the SV Rosie G.  With a carbon fiber mast, spar and battens, and super light sail material, the junk rig is exceptionally lighter than the Chinese a thousand years ago; and with the scow bow, it will be a magic carpet ride! 

Episodes

Holiday Episode

Episodes

Ep 16

Rosie G's maiden voyage 1.11.23

Episodes

Ep 15

Ep 15

Ep 15

Inside Rosie G

Ep 14

Ep 15

Ep 15

Magical sailing!

Ep 13

Ep 15

Ep 13

We kidnapped the harbormaster!

Episodes

Ep 12

Ep 12

Ep 12

Great day with many surprises.

Ep 11

Ep 12

Ep 12

Getting better and better!

Ep 10

Ep 12

Ep 10

SV Rosie's best sailing day ever!  

See a junk jibe and go downwind 

at 10 knots!

Ep 9

Ep 9

Ep 10

SV Rosie G's epic sailing on 

3rd September 2023

Ep 8

Ep 9

Ep 8

SV Rosie's sailing journey

Ep 7

Ep 9

Ep 8

Which do you choose -

List 1 or List 2?

Episodes

Ep 6

Ep 6

Ep 6

Sv Rosie G second sail on 1/21/23 She made 6 knots! 

Ep 5

Ep 6

Ep 6

SV Rosie G's maiden sail out the gate  1/1/23

Ep 4

Ep 6

Ep 4

Rosie's junk sail and modern rig

Ep 3

Ep 3

Ep 4

Launch of SV Rosie G 2.28.23

Ep 2

Ep 3

Ep 2

Building the inside of a scow bow

Our two year journey building out the Rosie G

Ep 1

Ep 3

Ep 2

Building a custom scow bow yacht 

with modern junk rig - SV Rosie G

SV Rosie G's Journey

    GREAT LISTENING - OUT THE GATE SAILING

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Barry and Samantha Spanier

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Barry and Samantha Spanier

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Barry and Samantha Spanier

    Episode 100

    July 17th, 2022


    The Rosie G is an innovative, new, scow bowed, junk rigged, boat that came from the mind of Barry and Samatha Spanier. She was designed by Jim Antrim and built by Cree Partridge and his yard at the Berkeley Marine Center. All of these folks are friends of the show, which is why it was such a treat to sit in the dog house on Rosie G in the Emeryville Marina and talk with Barry and Samatha about the boat’s conception, construction, and coming sea trials.

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Barry Spanier

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Barry and Samantha Spanier

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Barry and Samantha Spanier

    Episode 26, Part 1

    September 29, 2019


    Long before Barry Spanier started Maui Sails and became a legend in  windsurfing sail design, he built a ferro-cement sloop in San Francisco  and sailed off to the South Pacific. He was running away from the madness of the 1960s, but he found plenty of new crazy adventures, from  "borrowing" the 76-foot Alden Schooner Constellation, to having a curse put on him, to loosing his boat and almost his life when he was shipwrecked off New Zealand.


    Episode 27, Part 2

    October 6, 2019


    In the 60s, Barry Spanier built a boat in San Francisco, sailed it  through the South Pacific and then lost it, and everything but his life, in a shipwreck. Starting over again, he launched a sail loft in Hawaii, Maui Sails, and became a legend in windsurfing sail design. Today he's building another boat at the Berkeley Marine Center. 

    The Rosie G is a junk rigged, scow-bow 42-footer designed by Jim Antrim. 

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Cree Partridge

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Cree Partridge

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Cree Partridge

          Episode 87

    Cree Partridge / Racer, Boatbuilder, Owner of Berkeley Marine Center

    January 10, 2022


    Cree Partridge started building boats in his parents front yard while still in elementary school. His passion for being on the water started at a young age and continues to this day. In college, he channeled his desire to be on the water into racing and traveled all over the world to crew aboard big, fast boats. He then got into boat building. For the past twenty years he’s run the Berkeley Marine Center, where he helps bring many a dream to life.   



    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Jim Antrim

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Cree Partridge

    Listen to Ben Shaw's interview with Cree Partridge

     Episode 96

    Jim Antrim // Designing & Racing an Eclectic Portfolio of Sailboats  

    May 15, 2022


    Jim Antrim, often called the Wizard of El Sobrante, is a naval architect who apprenticed under Dick Carter, Britton Chance and Gary Mull. He’s designed record breaking multihull and monohull sailboats as well as popular production boats. He’s an expert in composite material engineering and has developed several computer programs used in performance analysis and prediction. 

    I met him in his office to talk about many of his designs and how he got into naval architecture in the first place.



    FUN READING

    FUN READING NOVEMBER 2023 LATITUDE 38 ISSUE - THE RADICAL UNIQUENESS OF ROSIE G

    Have a look at  The radical uniqueness of rosie g - page 36-37

    FUN READING

    FUN READING - APRIL 2022 LATITUDE 38 ISSUE - WHEN DREAMS GO AFLOAT

    Have a look at When dreams go afloat. Pg 54

    FUN READING - APRIL 2022 LATITUDE 38 ISSUE - REPOWERING WITH GREEN ENERGY

    Have a look at Repowering with green energy Pg 66

    FUN READING - SEPT 2020 - KEVIN MILNE, MARSKEEL TECHNOLOGY

    Have a look at SV Rosie G Project: A Journey of a Dream

    FUN READING - SEPT 2020 - RONNIE SIMPSON, SAILING ANARCHY

    Have a look at Oh, that's what it is?

    FUN READING - SEPT 2020 - EDITOR, SAILING ANARCHY

    Have a look at What is it?

    FUN READING - JULY 2019 - CHARLES DOANE, WAVETRAIN.NET

    Have a look at Rosie G: A Scow-Bow Junk Named After a Dead Dog

    FUN READING - APRIL 2019 - CRAFT OF UNCONVENTION - LATITUDE 38

    Have a look at Latitude 38

    FUN READING - MARCH 2019 - GMT NEWS

    Have a look at GMT Composites News 

    FUN READING - MARCH 2019 - GMT IN SAIL ANARCHY

    Have a look at Sailing Anarchy

    FUN READING - JUNE 2018 - LATITUDE 38 - SF BOAT BUILDERS

    Have a look at Latitude 38 SF Boat Builders (PDF)

    FUN WATCHING - OCTOBER 2013 - SAILING A SCOW BOW

    Have a look at Sailing a Scow Bow Mini by David Raison

    FUN READING - MARCH 2013 - CHARLES DOANE, WAVETRAIN.NET

    Have a look at Sails & Rigging: Junk Rigs for Cruisers

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