Joseph Mix: Photo of my Escargot on Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
John Hughes: Misty, up north in the mist.
Patrick Grondin: My two kids discovering the joys of small-boat sailing as we put Serenity, my homebuilt little sailboat, in the water last summer at Thousand Islands National Park, Ontario, Canada.
Paul Smith: Ross Hatte designed Sapphire at anchor in the Broughton’s with my daughter.
Joel Bergen: Photo taken by Simeon Baldwin of me taking a photo of Simeon. My son and I are in our Welsford Navigator Ellie, Simeon in his Scamp Noddy. We were both sailing together near Anacortes, WA.
Rich Green: Forty years ago in the lower Columbia—a Benford 22 I finished from bare hull, launched 1980.
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Tom Luque: (Video above) On the Southern end of Puget Sound, heading for the boat ramp in Federal Way. Very good wind on a sunny day. I thought my Potter 19 was fast until I almost became Road Kill. By the way, I suggest not using this ramp when the wind blows out from the North. It blows wind waves right down the ramp's length. Ride-em Cowboy! The city needs to install a break wall for protection.
Roy Schreyer: A couple favorite shots of my designs.
James Thomas: A couple of images (above and below) and a story connecting them. Four years ago before Covid sidelined us all, I visited my brother John in Duluth to be present at the launch of his just completed Chesapeake Light Craft Skerry. He and our artist friend, Rick Allen of Kenspeckle Press, launched the Skerry and Rick’s traditionally built Whitehall from the Knife River Marina on a beautiful day on Lake Superior. I took the following photo of John ghosting along in the Skerry with Knife Island in the background from Rick’s Whitehall and later Rick adapted the idea into one of his Trapper’s Daughter prints with the same background but this time with many more participants both in the Trapper’s Daughter’s Whitehall and following behind.
The shanty boats are the wave of the future for some of us older types. Small houseboats, so to speak, fill the needs of we geezers nicely. Those of us less steady on our pins would have more to hold onto, easier bunks to sleep in, good vision around on fine days or rainy. I vote wonderful on boat like Escargot, Diane's Rose, etc.
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The shanty boats are the wave of the future for some of us older types. Small houseboats, so to speak, fill the needs of we geezers nicely. Those of us less steady on our pins would have more to hold onto, easier bunks to sleep in, good vision around on fine days or rainy. I vote wonderful on boat like Escargot, Diane's Rose, etc.