There are other blogs that do a great job covering traditional and open boat sailing.....
DoryMan is my favorite (in my blog list) but two others that also do a good job covering open boat sailing are InTheBoatShed and 70.8% .
The increasing popularity of RAID's (a weeklong event for open and traditional sailboats with each day featuring a point to point race/cruise) and MessAbouts (events based out of one location) are giving open boat cruising new impetus. I would like to do an open boat cruise myself somewhere in the future.
This video is of a Welsford open boat design Navigator (Welsford designs are very comfortable in big wind and waves) sailing from Auckland NZ to the island of Kawau (about 30 km NE).
The Navigator is a great gunkholing boat. I would imagine it would be a workout to row in a RAID, but under sail they can take a lot of weather, as the video shows.
ReplyDeleteI've recently "met" a new friend from Australia who's building a Navigator. He's a violin maker by trade, so you can imagine how his boats turn out!
Maybe you've seen this already but if not...
http://middlething.blogspot.com/
doryman (thanks for the plug!)
I guess you heard that the ultimate day boat adventurer, Frank Dye, passed away recently. He sailed a Wayfarer from the UK to Iceland among other jaunts.
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