Flotsam and Jetsam

Odds and ends and Reader Mail

Our friend Hugh Horton forwarded this info about small-boat legend and designer, Jim Brown:

Today, June 7, marks the 90th birthday of sailor, multi-hull pioneer and free spirit Jim Brown. Along with the normal celebrations, we are marking the day with a new website: JimBrownBeyondMainstream.com

ABOVE: Meade Gougeon & Jim Brown, sitting in Woodwind in CK at a boat meet, probably 2011 or 2012.

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Many of you were curious to know more about a particular boat pictured in our Photo Flood 6. We asked owner Scott Henderson for more details and photos:

Here is a photo of my Sirocco 15 while sailing Everglades Challenge in the Gulf of Mexico. 

The white Sirocco has Waters Sails, and the yellow Sirocco has sails I sewed from a Sailrite kit 

From reader Tony Davis: I believe I‘ve sailed most small boats ever made. My question is why nobody ever talks about this boat—the Guppy 13. Built like a Mack Truck! Yes, surely not my Westsail 32,  but no small boat would ever have gone where this one went! Yes I added a wing to the keel to get better pointing, but that’s it. I took it over 2,000 miles in the Sea of Cortez—sometimes with 10-foot wavesand never once lost control.

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Here’s a reader survey suggested by Mike Smith. It’s true confessions time. Have you been faithful to the first boat you fell in love with? —Eds