WoodenBoat Magazine corpus search, July 12, 2026. Search mode: broad vessel-name tokens. Search tokens: amanda lewis. Results shown: 6.
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| 1 | March/April 1982 | 045 | WoodenBoat_045_March-April_1982.pdf | 61 | Y | Y | net tonnage of 24 against the WAVE'S net of 33. Neither one would compare with a New England coaster of similar length which might have twice the tonnage. Captain H.H. Bradway of Port AMANDA F. LEWIS unloading lumber at a Pratt Street wharf in Baltimore's Inner Harbor about 1930. The light weight and minimum windage of the rig shows clearly. A neatly forged wrought-iron set of spreaders for the main topmast backstay serves the purpose of al... | |
| 2 | September/October 1987 | 078 | WoodenBoat_078_September-October_1987.pdf | 78 | Y | Y | ...ouache paintings that appeared at various times on the cover and subse- quently were offered for sale through the mail as fine art prints. They were profiles of sailing craft—the pilot schooner GEORGE STEERS, the schoon- er-yacht AMERICA, the Friendship sloop AMANDA MORSE, the Essex pinky TIGER, the pungy AMANDA F. LEWIS, and others—and were charac- terized by an authenticity of detail sel- dom seen in nautical paintings of the type. The artist's name, Melbourne, al- ways appeared on the keel of the ves- sel being ... | |
| 3 | March/April 1982 | 045 | WoodenBoat_045_March-April_1982.pdf | 61 | Y | Y | ...schooners were published in Paris as part of a report on American steam boats prepared by M. Marestier, a French naval engineer sent to this country to study our progress in that art. These show a definite relationship to the later pun- gies. The lines of the AMANDA LEWIS appear in the last edition of the cata- log of the Watercraft Collection of the Smithsonian Institution, written by H.I. Chapelle. They were drawn from measurements and offsets taken by me and Frank A. Taylor of the National Museum about 1937. Unf... | |
| 4 | March/April 1982 | 045 | WoodenBoat_045_March-April_1982.pdf | 63 | Y | Y | ... maximum hull speed. Ample beam carried well fore and aft provides great initial stability and sail- carrying power. Without some ballast, righting forces would diminish if she were heeled to a point where the lee deck was submerged. I have been told that the AMANDA LEWIS did capsize and sink off the mouth of the Potomac while hove to with all sail set. She was carrying a large fishing party and was caught by a sudden squall while all hands were below at lunch. With no one on deck to ease a sheet or pay her off, it... | |
| 5 | March/April 1982 | 045 | WoodenBoat_045_March-April_1982.pdf | 60 | Y | Y | ...in sheet block across the traveler every time he went about. The PLAN had a net tonnage of 24 against the WAVE'S net of 33. Neither one would compare with a New England coaster of similar length which might have twice the tonnage. Captain H.H. Bradway of Port AMANDA F. LEWIS unloading lumber at a Pratt Street wharf in Baltimore's Inner Harbor about 1930. The light weight a | |
| 6 | March/April 1982 | 045 | WoodenBoat_045_March-April_1982.pdf | View | Y | Y | ...h car and camera produced much information from old-timers, but few facts about the origin of the type, or name, pungy. The MILDRED ADDISON was found abandoned in a cove off Spa Creek, sails still bent, the JAMES A. WHITING on the beach in the Coan River. The AMANDA F. LEWIS was seen in Curtis Bay loading fertilizer for the northern neck of Virginia. Near Rock Hall, at Gratitude, the hull of the PLAN still lay in shallow water, and the WAVE was alongside the dock of her owner, Captain John Crouch, still painted the... |
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