love this abstract picture I found over on H2uh0’s blog: Bonehead Moves on the Water from SF Bay and Beyond!
at first glance, I thought it was a bunch of sailboats off in the distance on a grey horizon.
maybe it’s the sheet music for Christopher Cross’s song “Sailing“?
may you and yours have a blessed and merry Christmas and a happy new year!
trying to ignore the drama and politics that has been going on in the last few months (years?) between both the Sunfish and Laser classes and the official builder, Laser Performance, and instead focus on the positive: Sunfish production has begun in the UK. hopefully this will improve quality and help with new model and parts availability for the Sunfish sailing class.
here are pictures (all photos by Laser Performance, shared on Twitter and Instagram):
a nice glimpse at the construction process and inner workings of a Sunfish.
a healthy dose of fiberglass and gelcoat.
not sure of the significance – but no sign of the foam flotation blocks. are they truly being phased out? or just not shown in any of these selected photos?
saw this photo posted on the Dinghy Shop Instagram account and had to wonder:
how can this boat builder not be called the D’yer Mak’er?
When I read the letter you sent me, it made me mad mad mad
When I read the news that it brought me, it made me sad sad sad
But I still love you so
And I can’t let you go
I love you
Oh, baby I love you, oh
sailors at the North Shore Yacht Club on Lake Michigan in Highland Park, Illinois have developed some new techniques to help Sunfish sailors assist nearby sailors that have capsized their Sunfish sailboat and are having difficulty righting the boat or getting back out of the water into the boat. Alan Cohen is an American Canoe Association certified Level 2 Sea Kayak Instructor, an experienced Sunfish sailor, and former Commodore of the North Shore Yacht Club, and he prepared an article discussing these methods and helped with the re-enactment to make the video below to help explain the methods. Alan’s article can be found here or here (.pdf file).
a few of the reasons this method might be beneficial are highlighted in the article and video, including the following:
there’s often discussions over on the Sunfish Forum about various ways to help with one or several of the above list, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen them summarized so nicely in a written article, and now a video demonstration as well. the article and video highlight (4) basic techniques to help a nearby Sunfish sailor recover from a capsize:
North Shore Yacht Club has been a leader in putting together great videos to help Sunfish sailors, I’ve highlighted some of their previous videos on my blog already:
for today’s tunes, a selection from the latest album “Ghosteen” from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
For we are not alone, it seems, so many riders in the sky
The winds of longing in their sails, searching for the other side
if you don’t know some of the back story about Nick Cave in recent years, look into it a little bit (his teenage son died in an accident in 2015). you can feel the raw emotion in a lot of his songs on this album.
here’s an album review from Pitchfork that gives some background on it: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-ghosteen/
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