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Another post about the straight-stemmed vintage dinghies. From the July 1967 issue of One Design and Offshore Yachtsman magazine, a stunnin...

From the February, 1971 issue of OD-OY. Lee shores are always tricky , especially if the run-in is framed by rock jetties. I ran an Int...

In my post about The Playboy Bunny , I mentioned that 2020 is the 50th anniversary of the America's Teacup trials on Lake Geneva, Wiscon...

Next year is the fiftieth anniversary of the Teacup Regatta, the regatta famous for introducing the world to the Laser (originally name...

I've written before about the group small boat building craze in the 1960's . That post featured an article from a 1964 issue of th...

The American sailing magazine, One-Design and Offshore Yachtsman , in modern times, morphed into Sailing World , actively published art cov...

Michael Storer mentioned in his history of the Oz Goose box boat that the ongoing group building effort in the Philippines became a key co...

  Although I can't see the sail logo in this photo, I'm confident the previous header photo is of the woodie Dutch class, the gr...

Paul Elvstrom, who, for my generation, is the greatest racing sailor of all time, introduced this dinghy in the 1960's. About the sa...

The previous header photo was of two El Toro dinghies racing. The El Toro is a 8' (2.438 meter) V-shaped, single chine, transom bowe...

Update, March 12, 2020. Class reforming. From Jeff Moses: "I was just able to obtain 2 Peanuts from The Augusta Sailing Club! ...

I went over last weekend to help George A. of Mid-Atlantic Musings> move one of his boat collection into a U-Haul. It wasn't a Moth ...

In continuing my series on U.S racing/home-built dinghies that were featured in the January issue of the One-Design and Offshore Yacht...

Voiliers classique Moth, dériveur classique Moth . Well it wasn't the Classic Moth when One-Design and Offshore Yachtsman published t...

In my continuing series on home-built sailing dinghy classes from the 1960's, as featured in the One Design and Offshore Yachtsman maga...

Back in the 1960's, a period I consider the apex of dinghy sailing in the U.S. (some might say this is old guy nostalgia but, in the 196...