This is one way of putting 4 sailboats on the road. 3 PDRacers (Puddle Duck Racer) and one Marisol skiff.
Launching the PDR. The PDracer weights less than 30kg and is made of hardware store materials.
PDRacer ready for boarding with a "reef" in the sail, i.e. the sail is wrapped around the mast a few times before the sprit boom is lashed on.
And they are off! Watermelon made it back to the beach a few minutes later but the rudder was broken (design flaw - not construction).
The 12foot Marisol ready for a sail.
This beautiful little boat seats 4 people comfortably, is very stylish and practical with deadeyes and belaying pins and few concessions to modern gear.
It was breezy enough to put in one reef (smaller sail area).
Under sail, passing a wreck run agound.
This wreck also serves as a good bird perch. But swabbing the decks on the moored boats at tehe local marina must be a pretty dirty job!
It has a gunter rig (which stows inside the boat) with 3 reefs. Jonathan's mother even hand-stiched this sail.