Robert The Gray wrote:Are those BIG men or do I have a smaller boat than I thought?
hehe...no, the boat is small!
One thing I've noticed about Tritons is that they look much larger than they are...until you put a person in the way to provide the necessary scale. With one or more people on board, the true smallness of the Triton really comes through. I had the same thoughts looking at these photos--that the boat looks really small compared to her occupants!
Part of this is caused by the fact that the cockpit and seats on
Windsong are located rather high, with a low coaming to keep the looks appropriate. So the people in the cockpit seem to loom far above the deck. But then the deck design was all about looks.
I would have loved to have built a deeper, more encompassing cockpit (more like an Ensign), but my design requirement to have the cockpit remain easily self-bailing (unlike an Ensign), as well as provide room for an engine beneath the sole, meant that the sole had to be higher than that. That said, I kept the sole as low as possible given those requirements.
Great boat, Tritons...but filled with design compromises!