Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice!, I like this style 50's... "Time Life Magazine" Lluis El 30/10/2008, a las 1:26, Richard S. Taylor escribi?: > This is "Bewitched," a 23' on the waterline cutter-rigged sloop, > under full sail on Buzzards Bay last August. Most of the photos > I've posted in this PAD were taken from her cockpit. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2008_PAD/300_2526-2.jpg.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/66fdky > > Sam Crocker designed the boat in 1931. She was originally built in > wood specifically for the waters of Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound > and has some of the prettiest lines of any boat sailing today. Her > large main, staysail and jib allow her to ghost along in the > lightest of breezes but also allow her to be reefed quickly to deal > with the worst the Bay or the Sound are likely to throw at a sailor > on even day when it really honks. Best of all, she won't even dump > much water in the cockpit when it blows like that. She is simply a > pleasure to sail and a beautiful boat to boot. > > So, thanks to Tom and Lynne, her owners, and to Dory the Leapin' > Lab* for may happy weekend afternoons sailing through the summer, > for all those boating lunches you provided, and for the opportunity > to take the pictures I've shown the LUG over the last month or so. > I'm looking forward to more of the same next year. > > Time to move on, photographically. I wonder if there's any Fall > color left to shoot... > > Regards, > > Dick > off-list comments to r.s.taylor at comcast dot net please. > > *See here if you miss the reference: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2008_PAD/300_3174.jpg.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/3t8ljp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information