Intense racing

[Dan McCosh]

This photo made the cover of the club's newsletter--note the intensity of the crew

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff159/dmccosh/IMG_5258.jpg

[Ian McColgin]

Finastkind

[ILikeRust]

I note they have a deck hatch open, which I have always been told is a no-no when under sail. Granted, the water is pretty flat, but ya never know when some yuckapuck with a hi-power boat will come by and wash you with his wake.

[Ian McColgin]

The foredeck hatch is shut - we hope dogged. The butterfly high up on the coach roof won't matter on this nice a day as even a big wake won't get to it.

[Dan McCosh]

The big risk is snagging the hatch with a sheet, not the wave action. The tradeoff is keeping it cooler down below.

[Larks]

I note they have a deck hatch open, which I have always been told is a no-no when under sail. Granted, the water is pretty flat, but ya never know when some yuckapuck with a hi-power boat will come by and wash you with his wake.

Perfect day to be sailing along with a few hatches open getting a nice bit of air through the boat. There are no rules about how you should sail your boat (other than the obvious safety rules that you must abide by) - just prudent seamanship, if it looks like you're going to get a bit wet below you'd keep them shut, if it's a hatch that might jag a sheet when you tack you'd shut it before tacking or have a spare hand guide the sheet over it while you tack.

[Paul Pless]

Nice :)

[John B]

You must show us more photos some time Dan , she's a lovely looking boat and I only recall seeing one other ( 2 ? ) over the years. There was one under kite I think .. maybe.. stbd quarter beam ?

[TimH]

I can almost smell the lake...

[Dan McCosh]

You must show us more photos some time Dan , she's a lovely looking boat and I only recall seeing one other ( 2 ? ) over the years. There was one under kite I think .. maybe.. stbd quarter beam ?

Don"t really have many of the boat under sail. This was taken by a friend who shoots a lot of racing activity at our club, at a weekly double-handed race which we had entered. (The guy in the hatchway was not allowed to crew during the race.) Some of his other work is posted here: http://hubpages.com/hub/Beautiful_Sailboats

It's a great essay on the local sailing scene.

[JimConlin]

One of the things that would make a bad race would be if too many beers are spilled.

[John B]

Thanks for the link.. I had a good look through... there's a second shot of you there. 32 means 40 or so o'all?

I'm wondering which photo and boat I have pictured in my mind now .. maybe one of the Ross's( ?), a white boat the more I think about it.

[Dan McCosh]

Thanks for the link.. I had a good look through... there's a second shot of you there. 32 means 40 or so o'all?

I'm wondering which photo and boat I have pictured in my mind now .. maybe one of the Ross's( ?), a white boat the more I think about it.

The boat is a New York 32, a Sparkman Stephens design built in 1936 as a one-design class for the New York Yacht Club. 20 boats were built in 1936, and about 15 are still sailing. There are three left in the Great Lakes, where about half the fleet was located for about a half-century. We share a dock with another S&S design, a Pilot sloop, which also is in the photos, which I think is the oldest actively raced wooden sailboat in the Great Lakes, which I think also has the most Mackinac races (a 200-mile-long-distnce race) of any boat on the lakes--maybe 50 entries, and about 5 first-place finishes.