I wanted something that had that thoroughbred look of the Bailey, something that screamed classic rowboat. The Bailey is beautiful and, I am sure, fast. It is also, however, fairly tender due to its quite rounded bottom, but I wanted something that had some of the Rangeley's rough water ability.
It is very common these days to use computer software to design boats, and I have software to use for that. I still prefer to draw these boats out full scale so that I can get a really good feel for the shapes. You just can't see it the same way on the computer screen. I may still import this design into the lofting software one day.
So I drew out this boat with the stem and transom of the Bailey, but with almost the width of the Rangeley. I used the entry and exit shapes of the Bailey and a midsection that came close to the Rangeley. Then I had to connect the dots, as it were, to make everything flow together into a nice boat shape. Easy to say, difficult to do!
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