Matthew claims the Pipe Dream

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That's a sisu. They had two different molds. One was a hard chine and the other a soft chine. Peter Brown built these boats in NH for a number of years.
The hard chine model was built/modifed by Rosborough in Nova Scotia. Well built boats but tender side to side kind of like a sail boat. When weather get rough you have to slow down. However they can go through a lot of bad weather. I'd rather have the V 20 myself. If you get serious about any of these downeast hulls be sure to run them in a following sea (esp quartering following seas). I loved our downeast hull for many things (economy, pilothouse, etc) but after buying a V 20 I sold the downeast hull and bought a Bertram to replace the downeast/novie hull. That being said many people love the semi displacement hulls.

Here's a few photos of new Sisu's with pilothouses being rigged in Nova Scotia.