More schooners to see

[MAGIC's Craig]

Each year for the last few, the Captain Raynaud International Schooner Race (CRISR) has been held in the Pacific Northwest(USA/Canada). The contestants are all schooner-rigged and have ranged in sizes from 30' to 128' LOD. Nearly all are wooden hulled. The CRISR is actually a series of races & cruises held over the course of a week during the summer (July).

Many photos from last year's event have been posted at: http://tropicstar.home.att.net/CRISR_2002.html
and I gather more will follow soon, so if you find these interesting, you might choose to bookmark Sheila's site.

This year, the 6th Annual CRISR(2003) looks as if it will be the largest yet, with a fleet on the order of 20+ schooners. FWIW, classic "other rigs" also known as "backwards schooners" have been known to sail in company - they just do not count (in the racing). ;)

Additional info about the dates of the CRISR - it's free - is posted on the WB calendar.

[johnw]

Wonderful! Hey, I haven't seen Magic in years. Where does she live?

[MAGIC's Craig]

Hello, John:

MAGIC is currently berthed in Sidney, B.C. awaiting our return in April. We have been doing the work thing and caring for parents in SoCal.

[Bernadette]

Craig, thanks for the link to the schooner photos...some SERIOUSLY nice boats there!!! great bunch of photos. we would really love to enter into regattas such as this. the photos are a good PMU at the moment!
Bernadette.

[Wild Dingo]

Craig!! Flamin brilliant mate!! truely some utterly aweinspiringly beautiful schooners and others there my friend... stuck into favorites for later quiet perusal :cool:

[John B]

thanks for the link. nice golly wobbler. :D

What design is Martha.? Looks a bit Malabar 7 ish to me.........
Whatever she is, she does it for me.

I did a google. Crowninshield eh. Yep. The more I see, the more I like .Art's boat is gorgeous.

My boat is 1907 too... same as Martha.

[ 03-18-2003, 04:12 PM: Message edited by: John B ]

[MAGIC's Craig]

Yes, Vicky has taken to calling it the purple-people-eater (dates us, doesn't it? ;) ). Nicely made by Hasse and crew from P.T. - and it has withstood far too much abuse from the skipper :(

MARTHA has a interesting history and she is progressing well - now in a healthy stage of fine restoration and earning her keep during the summers doing sail-training charters.

[Dave Hadfield]

Hey, I worked on Martha! I just showed up at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle one day when she was having her frames sistered and I pitched in. I ended up pulling big galvanized spikes from her deck planking for several hours and then got invited for dinner. I accepted, of course, and had a very memorable evening.

Lovely boat, especially down below at the time. Wonderful panelling and woodwork. Magnificent ambiance. The owners, whose names escape me at the moment, said she was built by the richest man in San Fransisco at the time, about 1907. They said some of her planks were full-length, cut especially for the boat. Sure glad she found the current owners.

[brian.cunningham]

Most :cool:
Screensaver VERY Happy! :D

[TomFF]

Thanks for the site info. Some great shots. Great boats in an awesome setting. I was surprised to see the rubber dinghies. Seems out of place.

[John B]

Purple people eater.LOL. I just got dated too then, although I can't remember what it came from.
something from about 1975 though I expect.

I love schooners.
My daughter was watching a music video last night made by an ex 'backstreet boy'Nick someoneorother, on his own at the helm of a large schooner( plus the obligatory bikini clad nymphette of course). From what I could see of it in the extremely short off boat footage , it's an America replica. Black.
The song was better than that which falls from a bull's tail, but not by much.

[MAGIC's Craig]

John:

I believe that the line went, "it was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple-people eater..." and I do not remember the rest, tho' I'm sure my lady does - and she can still sing the ditty. :rolleyes:

Our golly does set flying from the deck, with me on the throat halyard, the luff sliding up between me knees while Vicky hauls the peak aloft from a halyard under the dodger, all the while hanging on to the sheet - and on occasion, steering.

Say, look what you get to plan for, Bernadette!! ;)