I have a Pacific Built 911S, which I wouldn't consider spartan. There's
plenty of weight in cabinetry and trim that could have (and should have)
been taken out of the boat. Before I bought the boat, I looked at a Capo
30, which you may not know is the boat Carl Schumacher actually designed and
that became the Olson 911. The Capo 30's were truly Spartan, with 3/8"
Brynzeel plywood bulkheads and a very simple interior, much like the Santa
Cruz boats Bill Lee was building. Not many were built. Olson bought the
rights from Carl Schumacher, and the 911 was born.
Derek Reijnen
The Reijnen Company
phone: 206-842-4409
email: derek@reijnenco.com
-----Original Message-----
From: WiltW@aol.com [mailto:WiltW@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 9:46 AM
To: mtove1@comcast.net; olson911@SailPix.com
Subject: Re: Principal Differences 911S vs. SE?
In a message dated 11/1/2003 9:17:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, mtove1@comcast.net writes:
> I gather that the "E" in "SE" means that the boat was built by Ericson.
Curious to learn if there are any other principal differences (e.g. weight,
interior layout, rig
> configuration, etc.) between the 911S and 911SE.
Wrong. I owned the first Ericson 911S hull (ERY91101Axxx). The Ericson 911S
had a solid fiberglass hull, lots of interior amenities for cruising
(pleasing the wife) like fancy wood cabinetry and liquor locker on the
fold-up galley table, hot water heating system, and no race oriented gear as
standard. I had to add spinnaker stuff, checkstays, hydraulic backstay
adjuster, secondary cockpit winches, etc. to race. The 911S was the only
version in 1988. Then in later years Ericson introduced the 911SE, with less
cruising amenities to save weight and cost, and some racing oriented things
as standard features. The 911SE had no water heater system, no Origo
oven/range, no liquor locker, and much less cabinetry. But the 911SE
interior was still not as spartan as the Pacific Boats 911S. I don't recall
which race accessories was added as 'standard' to the 911SE configuration,
but it was priced about the same as my non-race boat (before I added the
racing stuff).
I raced once on a Pacific hull, on what was the SF Bay Champion of Champions
(winner against all other fleet champions) skipper's boat, in the same years
as Ericson was building both 911S and 911SE, and have had the designer (Carl
Shumacher) out sailing when I was initially fitting out and planning on race
equipment, etc.
--Wilton Wong Received on Mon Nov 3 14:56:33 2003