[1] In the past the design was built by South Coast Seacraft and Kenner Boat Company in United States.
It has a fractional ketch rig, a spooned raked stem, an angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel.
[1] When not sailed, the boat is normally propelled by oars, but may also be fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.
[6] In his 2012 book, In the South - Tales of Sail and Yearning, Geoff Heriot wrote of the boat, "the teenager immediately recognised and responded to the concept of simplicity in design, design for purpose and the elegance of what might result.
So too did the supposed skipper of Herreshoff's lean sailing 'canoe', even though the designer said, like Don Quixote, 'seven-eighths' of the adventure might take place in the mind.