If the winds around you are strong…
In the waters around Cape Cod, the winds are often gusty. Buzzard’s Bay, off one of our flanks, is known for its “afternoon hurricane.” If I lived in a place with milder winds, my thinking might have been different but one afternoon in 2004, I borrowed a Sunfish rig and improvised a way to hang it from my standard Potter 15 mast. It heeled much less than the standard rig and pointed quite well. At the time, I was campaigning my Potters in waters all around the USA and writing about the boats in several magazines. Consequently, I had a sweetheart deal with the company. I’d design some interesting variants of the Potters, sail them in all sorts of photogenic locations, write about them…and keep the boat. So I convinced the company to try a lateen Potter.
A PVC tube was drilled through the cabin’s forward edge and glassed to the floor of the bilge and to the cabin overhead. The mast was socketed into that. No stays. The halyards were routed through blocks flanking the mast, to cleats at the aft-cabin bulkhead. They made no other changes.
We got the boat just before departing for an expedition to the Rocky Mountain lakes. HMS Marine shipped me the boat with a sail cut back from the standard 75 square feet to 55. I never understood why—and got a full-sized sail made as soon as I returned.
If you usually single-hand…
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A HEAD FOR RUBATO
I dislike port-a-potties. I'm not too fond of poop in any form, really, being non-scatological by nature.
THE ARTFUL SAILOR
Ain' nothin' new about using sails as nautical billboards. The ancients painted all sorts of signs and symbols on their sails.
Twin Keels
OUT WIHUEIRIJE with Howard Rice
Cedar Key 2022 Windy Boat Meet
Cartop Cruising
A New Trailer
THE BIGHTS
PLAN STUDY: Fancy Free
If you're looking for a simple and inexpensive cruising sailboat with traditional character, our FANCY FREE should fill the bill. The sharpie-dory hull with flat-bottom, hard-chine form is ideal for the amateur.
BOAT REVIEW: Rhodes 22 Revisited)
Overlooked by the masses, admired by owners—there are good reasons the Rhodes 22 has been in production for over a quarter century.
Another Favorite Mod
The always creative Tom Luque sent us details on one of his favorite modifications
BLOODY TUESDAY
“Although the author if indeed he even used his real name) calls this story fiction, we arent so sure. You be the judge. Eds
CRUISING ISLE ROYALE
I sle“ Royale on Lake Superior is one of my favorite places to cruise. Established as a National Park in 1931, Isle Royale is located about 20 miles off the North Shore of Lake Superior near the Minnesota/Canadian border.