Garage Sail: Canada to the Bahamas by Homemade Sailboat
The boat I built as a starving steeplechase jockey that scratched my sailing itch. An 18.5-foot homemade sailboat, stitch and glue, homemade sails, gaff rig, built in my friend Mel Wyatt’s garage. Mel loved puns and garage sales, hence the name.
Posts are in chronological order, oldest first.
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Boat Building for Jockeys
It was 1991 and I was riding as a steeplechase jockey but what I was really dreaming about was running away to sea on a sailboat. Unlike these days, when…
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Winter Wren – Southern Pines, North Carolina
I tackled the weight problem first. The least a steeplechase jockey had to weigh was a bit less than 130 pounds. 130 pounds. I weighed 165. That was to ride…
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Dreaming of Building Garage Sail as a Starving Jockey
The Garage Sail was the first boat I built that floated. I built her in 1991. At the time I was in my early twenties and in the grips of…
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