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Ahhh...Sunfish sailing! Many a happy hr spent in one. The World Champion Sunfish sailor was for many years from Bermuda, Penny Simmons, then Malcolm Smith. We used to take our dinghy out at night, it was rigged with a modified sunfish rig, just ghost along in the warm summer air, stars...

'I did not feel comfortable!' Out of their mouths, they are milliseconds from disaster. Incredible.

Those things are next level. I've seen them up close and live. Jaw dropping.

Great posts guys! Shake down gone well by the sounds of it Ruel. Love me some kayaking too

Bob used to eat sardines and chase them with condensed milk if he had charter guests who were being a pain in the proverbial....never failed 10 minutes and they were calling for 'huey'

Those little hondas are great! Thanks for sharing your shakedown with us :)

...need crew? 🤣

And Maine is such a great place to cruise, we have so many good memories from our time there. PS, very glad we had radar and a good depth sounder. Eyeball navigation is not sufficient oftentimes 😎

Good boats come out of New England :)

Nice! Always love a full keel

That's right no reef points anywhere. Each sail was either up or down. Never run bare poles, hove to for extreme weather was mizzen staysail or main staysail sheeted tight, helm over. We had a drogue ready to deploy, never needed it. Only ever hove to twice in the time I was on board, once in...

Good eye Burnham! Yes she was a bit short rigged at first. When the top four feet of the mainmast broke on passage from Bermuda to the Bahamas, we took the opportunity to increase the height of the masts by five feet when we replaced the masts with aluminium ones. That also meant a complete new...

Here is a picture of our schooner "Christian Venturer' under full sail in Hamilton Harbour Bermuda about 1984ish. I'm pretty sure that's me on the helm, and Bob's legs peeking out from under the main staysail on the foredeck. No Idea who took this picture, it popped up on FB a while back :)

23 days double handed was my longest non stop on our boat, Gibraltar to Bermuda, forgot to mention the weight of our boat was 26 tons, full keel, that and her hull shape were the reasons she handled the seas so well. Did a delivery from Turks and Caicos to Puerto Rico on a little 28 footer...it...

The one thing I miss moving to another country is time spent on the water...salt water. Once you have salt water 'in your blood', it never leaves, there is a definable sense of 'something' when the scent hits your nostrils and the long, long view of a distant horizon hoves into sight. About the...

That will keep you busy! No accidents, many years on the ocean and two talented minds, as well as allll the history of successful boat design by many others, Herreshof, Hinkley, Frers, Fife schooners, grand banks schooners, researching why boats sank in storms etc etc The design phase happened...

Yes, it's truly impressive, thanks Ruel. The interior fit out he christened 'orange crate provincial' 😂 basics, staind plywood featured well. We added stuff as the years went by (once I came on the scene) The narrow hull with sharp double ends made it so she would cut and slice through head...

75' long bowsprit to boomkin, 57' waterline, 11'2" beam, 6' draft. Double ended staysail schooner (although she was originally rigged Chinese Junk) 7 sails, five lowers, two topsails. Five of the sails are self tending, outer jib we converted to roller furling...I took one too many salt water...

I did, for eight years. :)

Here is a picture of our schooner the 'Christian Venturer' after we sold it and the new owner changed the stern layout shortened the deckhouse and replaced the wooden booms with aluminium. Bittersweet to see her but still a very pretty hull. Built in Bermuda by my husband in 1976 launched 1977...