A crew of two would be ideal for the intended purpose. In test runs and races at my local club, the boat has proven to be very fast and able to handle winds to 20mph with just one person on board. The bottom finish is VC-17, a hard racing paint preferred by inland sailors in my area. The mainsail and jib are custom to the boat by Waters Sails of Columbia, SC, and are made of laminate cloth for the best flow patterns to generate as much power as possible, so as to not have to use a genoa/gennaker/spinnaker of any kind, as that would overpower the boat. Towards that end, I incorporated ideas that I felt would enhance its purpose in those situations-plywood trampolines to be able to rest and sleep while underway, a fiberglass rudder from a Hobie cat for the high-speed profile and kick-up ability, adjustable forestay for mast rack, & loonnng tiller extension for positioning anywhere on the boat. “I originally purchased the boat with the idea to restore it and use it in some Challenge races-the NC Challenge, the Blackbeard Challenge, and the Everglades Challenge. Anyone interested should contact him via his email address (see below). It’s listed within the Facebook Sailbird group with pics. There’s no boundary, really.”Ĭlick here to continue reading the article on the SoundingsOnline website…Īt the time of this post, sailor Jack Young currently has a completely restored Aquadyne Sailbird for sale. If anything happens, whether it’s a challenge or a scare, you are in it. But being so close to the water, I felt vulnerable by the intensity. “Then there were moments that were so beautiful, you can’t believe you are in this. The race is designed for boats propelled by wind and muscle power only no outside assistance allowed. “There’s the emotional side-moments of terror, tedium, anxiety,” says New-York based artist and casual sailor Zoë Sheehan-Saldaña, 49, about her first taste of the Race to Alaska, a 750-mile mad dash from Port Townsend, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska. Of particular interest were some of the mods made to the boat. SoundingsOnline published a fun short piece here on the adventure as experienced by a couple that worked together in order to overcome the many challenges inherent in this particular race. It features the background story of the trimaran named Kairos4Two, which was sailed in this year’s Race to Alaska (R2AK). Sailor Ian McGehee shared the following article with us.
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