Coolboats to admire

[Bull City]

@MauiPunter I get your point, but as an old fart a mature fellow, I would feel comfortable in the Herreshoff for hours on end; in one of those pictured above, no. 

 

[MauiPunter]

@MauiPunter I get your point, but as an old fart a mature fellow, I would feel comfortable in the Herreshoff for hours on end; in one of those pictured above, no. 

Yea, I totally get it. I too would enjoy the H boats.  More relaxing.  The sport boats seem like work.

 

[Diarmuid]

Brisk conditions?  It's a lake boat.

I've put the mast in the water on a lake 1.5 miles by 3. Gone from 3kts wind to 65 in -- not joking -- five seconds. The flat-cockpit daysailers pictured are specifically intended for mountain lakes like Garda, Geneva, and Como; and anyone who has sailed on Tahoe, Dillon, or Granby in the US has stories about sudden microbursts from completely random directions, often out of a blue sky. I like nice deep benches you can brace across when the world goes katabatic.

 

[Steam Flyer]

Yea, I totally get it. I too would enjoy the H boats.  More relaxing.  The sport boats seem like work.

Yeah, you would. At least on the VX1, you would. It's one of the most comfy boats I've ever sailed, of any size.

The only awkward thing on it is going forward past the cheese-cutter shrouds to the gooseneck (actually, to the upper end of the gnav).

FB- Doug

 

[European Bloke]

Interior...

Dad's fallen off. Quick run down and grab the lifebuoy.

Ah never mind, fuck dad. He never liked keeping it on deck because it made things untidy. Now we can sell this POS and but something untidy and comfortable.

 

[Veeger]

Let’s compromise…Just give me that cockpit on the H 15 and make this one big enough to do so.  

https://www.chantierdesileaux.com/polar-bear/

 

[Santanasailor]

If i want to go fast, gonna stay on a lake, This is what I want to sail.  Get to go fast, pull a waterskier if I so choose and have a party all at the same time.  

Its just been right since 1892

 

[Bull City]

The sport boats seem like work.

Work. The curse of the drinking class.

 

[Matagi]

Work. The curse of the drinking class.

Indeed. I just got this to replace my kids' Lego ships:



(In fact, I saw this last week in the Technikmuseum in Berlin, a model fully made of Amber. A piece of art)

 

[Priscilla]

 

[Santanasailor]

Most uncomfortable helm seat.

Most uncomfortable crew seating.

Worst ergonomics for crew work.

Worst toilet facilities.

Not a candidate for ugly dodger thread, however.

Missed one, worst case of weather helm since the advent of IOR.

 

[Crash]

Paging @Bull City

https://www.sailboatlistings.com/view/93665

 

[Matagi]

That is a Vindö 45 (I believe the sail area in sqm is what determined the model name, not length).

Here is a 50, on the road to the winter location, behind a nice old 'Trecker', as Germans say.

Undoubtedly, everyone in the queue behind enjoyed this beautiful look

 

[Panope]

I know nothing of trimarans, but I thought this one looked cool.

Anyone know what it is?

Steve

 

[Kris Cringle]

A custom 1967 Cal 48'? 

 

[Malaya]

I sailed on a Custom Columbia 50 in Maui cira 1978 named Fire Bird, sure looks like this one.

 

[Russell Brown]

I know nothing of trimarans, but I thought this one looked cool.

Anyone know what it is?

Steve

Crowther Bucaneer 33, I'm pretty sure.

 

[MauiPunter]

I sailed on a Custom Columbia 50 in Maui cira 1978 named Fire Bird, sure looks like this one.

I wonder if that's the same boat as "Island Star" now moored in Ma'alea.

 

[SloopJonB]

I wonder if that's the same boat as "Island Star" now moored in Ma'alea.

That's a Columbia 57.

There was one locally, Lioness, when I had my 43.

They are spectacularly beautiful - that pic doesn't remotely do them justice.

Pretty sure Kris's pic is a custom Col 50 - there were a small handful done in similar fashion.

 

[Bull City]

Knud Reimers Bermudan Sloop 1957

Length on deck: 29'
Beam: 6'10"
Draft: 4'6"

https://woodenships.co.uk/sailing-yacht/knud-reimers-bermudan-sloop/