A good way to end a crummy week - a sailing video

[Jim Garfield]

Originally Posted by Buckterrier

Boy, that's a pretty boat.

[Bill Verburg]

The Tornados are awesomely fast boats, they used to be on the same course as us at CORK. You had to adjust your sightlines way off to the sides to keep track of them when converging on a mark.

Problem is when it really kicks up there's no where to hide, 1 day there were 10 ft seas and 30 - 40 knots of wind, the Canadian cost Guard ended up having to go out for the whole fleet. It was a nasty day

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Buckterrier

Yes indeed. You could adjust the luff of the sail with it. Again she was a beautiful little yacht. The spars were all Douglas Fir, all the trim inboard was teak. The boat is fashioned after a Chesapeake Bay goose hunting boat from the late 1800's. What was really nice about her was the rigging time. The dinghy took what, two guys 15-20 minutes or so? "BadSeed", the name of mine could be rigged in litterly maybe 10 minutes by myself. Dang, I have to stop talking about her, I'm starting to miss it

Agreed, a true beauty. I started dinghy sailing as a training tool for a bigger boat. After a few years, it sunk in...bigger boats were more hassles. Me too, I miss it. I still have many found memories. We gave the boat to our daughter when Cindy was unable to sail any more...

[Buckterrier]

Originally Posted by Jim Garfield

Boy, that's a pretty boat.

Thanks Jim. A fellow in Marshfield Ma. builds them. Pricey but yes beautiful lines. I sailed her at Mystic Seaport & off Barn Island.

[Buckterrier]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Agreed, a true beauty. I started dinghy sailing as a training tool for a bigger boat. After a few years, it sunk in...bigger boats were more hassles. Me too, I miss it.

Thanks pwd. That's what I did also, learned to sail in a dinghy. You can sail anything if you can sail a bathtub!

[JeremyD]

Amen to that - I started off in Sunfish - went to 5o5's and Flying dutchmen - then to Venture, Lancers, soling, echels, then 420's and 470's and lasers. Then I took a little break, then on to a Sweden 34, a cal 30 and an endevour 41. Then bought a Thistle, fixed it up and sailed and raced that for a few years. Then went back to racing sunfish. Then bought the San Juan.

Although I intended to take the SJ24 out this Saturday - actually the wind was non existent - so I took the kids out in the other boat to get some bait - Oh well - at least we got on the water.

[JeremyD]

[pwd72s]

Damned straight wake...your daughter steers well.

[Buckterrier]

Uh a stink pot, you should be ashamed of yourself . The hound a bull terrier?