17' Gaff-Sloop-Rigged Decked Daysailer (1913)

This boat is a gaff rigged Grew Sailing Dinghy, build date unknown, but close to 100 years old. Lapstrake cedar planking on steam-bent white oak ribs. Varnished sitka spruce spars (mast, boom & gaff). She was built by Grew Boat & Equipment Co. Ltd. Jackson’s Point, Ontario, Canada. She sails among the Alexander Islands on Georgian Bay, just south of Twelve Mile Bay, about 25 miles south of Parry Sound. Been in our family her whole life. Been restored a few times. She’s light and sails like a dream.