When Winnipesaukee Is Too Small for a Sailboat...
Your boat breaks while racing other sailboats around the world, so the solo sailor, Isabella, has to head home. :(
This is what a VendeeGlobe sailboat—and skipper—looks like while "limping" to safety. :eek2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyO8P7h4OVE |
Looks like a typical day sailing on San Francisco Bay. I would have loved to put my 34' Sabre on Lake Winni. That's about the max size I'd do on Winni.
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...... is so totally fantabulous
My next door neighbor has something like a 1980 Contessa-32' sailboat, made in England and it supposedly weighs in at 16,000 lbs with its' weighted keel. Its a beautiful dark blue hull with a white upper and all white sails. It has four stays, bow-stern-port-starboard ..... stays-all around going from hull to top of aluminum mast ..... and it steers with a tiller handle and NOT a steering wheel .... so it is good-to-go through those large North Sea swells off the island nation of Great Britain.
It swings from a mooring, close to Horse Island, out front here, awaiting the next big windy day here on Lake Winnipesaukee. It's a real looker and you've probably seen it out and about. It is in beautiful condition ...... just a fantabulous big water sailboat! Here's a video of a different similar sailboat ...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q4Y27JvbuA ..... ".... romping across the North Minch on her way from Stornoway to Stromness." |
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Any sail boat is a good boat for our lake
I have a J-22, circa 1985, that I bought used in 2010 from a guy on the Cape. I thought it would be the perfect size for our lake and damn if it didn't turn out to be so. I can sail off the mooring in seven minutes flat, spend about 6 hrs off season waxing the hull, cleaning the deck and she's good to go. Love the simplicity of the J-22 and she sails like a dream. I sail single handed most of the time or with the wife but have as many as five people onboard and it is still a blast to sail. Can't wait to get back out there. A day sailing on the lake is truly a good day.
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Hey ...... here's a good look www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBUtfKHOg_4 at the inside/outside of another Contessa-32' while tied to a dock in the coastal town of Portimao, Portugal in November, 2019. A number, maybe four sleeping bunks were removed and replaced with two large sofas. Believe a Contessa-32' comes with maybe seven sleeping bunks??? .... sufficient to house an expedition sailing from Meredith ...... all the long way to faraway Wolfeboro! ..... :rolleye1: |
The Lake's Too Small...
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In reviewing that video again, the camera seems to move and yaw with the boat, which would tend to rule-out a drone. So how was that footage made? :confused: |
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Towards the end of the clip you can see the base attached to the bottom of the transom, and also see the extension arm, out of focus. Is made with a somewhat flexible material? Maybe they found an old aluminum roof rake handle at the Wolfeboro transfer station, 18' long, and adapted a base and a camera holder to it, using Gorilla tape. ...... :D www.gorillatough.com/ .......$8.98/roll for the good strong stuff at the new Heath's Hdwe in Lakeport ...... when there is NO second chance! |
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