I built a series of Rodger Martin's designs for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound sea school: https://www.cruisingworld.com/sailboats/hurricane-island-30-new-tool-timeless-program/ When Gray Wolf sailed in Nantucket Sound she was one of my favorites. Seeing you win the R2AK had me cheering you on. What an achievement!
Hello again. I met you on the pier at Hodgdon Yacht Services in Boothbay Harbor before the regatta there. It was great to see SPIRIT return after the years of my youth when she was 'Queen of the (local) Fleet" as VELA. And we subsequently watched you do well in the Boothbay and Camden regattas. Best of luck!
Nice to hear from you again. I searched my email files for our last correspondence and read again that Sweet Dreams went quickly once listed and off to the Chesapeake. My brother lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland now and I visit from time to time. I'd dearly love to know where exactly Sweet Dreams is. I always like to keep track of the various moves boats that interest me make. I also found this note from Paul: "Dave, Mark Darley is an interesting fellow with all kinds of irons in the fire. He was a good friend to...
Hello Brett- How nice to see another Gartside boat here. We've had two and I'm tempted to build others... or buy one that has recently been finished by another amateur here in Maine. A question about your rig: it looks like your outer jib is on a roller furling drum. Does the luff stay tight enough to enable you to go to weather in a way you find satisfactory? Thx.
My family had a 32' Rhodes Swiftsure in the 60s also built in Holland by deVries Lentch, Inc. and Royal Netherlands Aircraft. It was incredibly well built so I'm not surprised your Javelin has lasted as long so well.
18′ Payor Muscongus Bay 18 Sloop (2011) – TRACIE
I see another red boat in one of your photos. It's the powerboat tied to your lake's float. Is it the Doug Hylan design Rumbly Rox?40′ Martin Custom Cutter (1997) – GRAY WOLF
I built a series of Rodger Martin's designs for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound sea school: https://www.cruisingworld.com/sailboats/hurricane-island-30-new-tool-timeless-program/ When Gray Wolf sailed in Nantucket Sound she was one of my favorites. Seeing you win the R2AK had me cheering you on. What an achievement!47′ Alden Schooner (1934) – SPIRIT
Hello again. I met you on the pier at Hodgdon Yacht Services in Boothbay Harbor before the regatta there. It was great to see SPIRIT return after the years of my youth when she was 'Queen of the (local) Fleet" as VELA. And we subsequently watched you do well in the Boothbay and Camden regattas. Best of luck!15′ Gartside Tomales Bay One-Design Sloop (2009) – WREN
Nice to hear from you again. I searched my email files for our last correspondence and read again that Sweet Dreams went quickly once listed and off to the Chesapeake. My brother lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland now and I visit from time to time. I'd dearly love to know where exactly Sweet Dreams is. I always like to keep track of the various moves boats that interest me make. I also found this note from Paul: "Dave, Mark Darley is an interesting fellow with all kinds of irons in the fire. He was a good friend to...18′ Gartside 93a Cutter (2023) – PHOSPHORESCENCE
Hello Brett- How nice to see another Gartside boat here. We've had two and I'm tempted to build others... or buy one that has recently been finished by another amateur here in Maine. A question about your rig: it looks like your outer jib is on a roller furling drum. Does the luff stay tight enough to enable you to go to weather in a way you find satisfactory? Thx.21′ Herreshoff Fish Class Sloop (1920) – PERCH
Now owned by Jim Spader of TV shows? If so I was taught by his father at school and my wife knew his sister Anne at college.45′ Nicholson Sloop (1965) – NORYEMA 4
Gotta love the old 'droop-hiking'!37′ Tripp Javelin (1961) – HARPOEN
My family had a 32' Rhodes Swiftsure in the 60s also built in Holland by deVries Lentch, Inc. and Royal Netherlands Aircraft. It was incredibly well built so I'm not surprised your Javelin has lasted as long so well.22′ Palomo Gaff Cat Motorsailer (2015) – ABI
If you ever get as far a Boothbay Harbor in Maine we'd love to have you stop and visit.30′ Garden Custom Cruising Tug (1986) – BON ACCORD
Wow, right in the heart of such great cruising grounds. Envious. Good luck on voyages northward. Our boat is not too different.