Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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