Okay, here's what I have found out about the Prindle 20, with information provided by Steve Lohmayer:

It was a one-off boat made by Performance as a special order for Roy Seaman, who raced it in some event on the West Coast.

It is a "stretch 19" -- they added a foot to the aft end of the boat, and it has a 10-foot beam. It has daggerboards instead of centerboards. The mast is about 34 feet (4-5 feet longer than the P-19 mast. The main mast spreaders are 2.5 feet on each side, so 5 foot from one end to the other. Plus, there are smaller, inside spreaders. Randy Smyth had something to do with reconfiguring the mast -- the additional mast height was sleeved onto the bottom of the mast.

Robert Onsgard of South Florida area bought the boat from Roy Seaman and raced it in the 1988 World 1000 (that was after Mike Worrell stopped doing the Worrell and it was the World for a couple of years).

Steve Lohmayer (Key Largo, FL) currently has possession of the boat and won the Key Largo Steeplechase with it in 1992. The last time he raced it was in the 1995 Steeplechase.

Steve says the boat has a self-tacking jib and is set up to use either a furling reacher or a spinnaker, both of which were carried on the boat. The bowsprit was integrated with the forestay somehow, like a Formula 40. (Something about putting on the bowsprit first and attaching the forestay to the bowsprit.)

Since 1995 the boat has been sitting in the weeds next to Steve's house, and now one of the hulls has become home to a thriving beehive.

Tomorrow a beekeeper is coming to collect the bees and take them to a new home. (Apparently, the bee population in general has been dying out, so beekeepers are happy to find new hives in the wild.)

Steve says they are going to somehow vacuum out the majority of the bees into a container, so they can be transported. And then they have to get out the main hive and the honeycomb and the queen bee, because the other bees will go with the queen.

I asked Steve how the bees got into the hull (through an open deck hatch or what), and he says they got in through the open drain plug hole in the transom.

I know this is more than you ever thought you would know when you asked about the Prindle 20. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

P.S. It is going to be interesting to find out what the Prindle Bee Honey tastes like.