my2fish photos

adding some more recent photos…

Noah sailing our Minifish on Lake Michigan.
Noah minifish

drifting along on Lake Michigan: me and Noah on the Sunfish, T2 relaxing on the Minifish.
t2 drift minifish

my double-fish trailer setup to carry my Sunfish and my Super Porpoise

doublefishtrailer

my Sunfish – rigged and sitting in the driveway after a spring cleaning

sunfish rigged

my youngest son, enjoying our trip tubing down the Platte River

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my 2 younger boys hanging out in my brother-in-law’s Sandpiper 8

2 boys in sandpiper

me, sailing the Sunfish on Lake Michigan

this is me - photo taken by my 8-yr old (hence the unusual cropping!)

my 8-yr old son T2, sailing with me on Lake Michigan

8-yr old son Thad 2

another picture of T2 and I, taken from the shore

t2 & me sailing in towards shore

one of the holes I cut in my Sunfish for an inspection port – I cut the other hole in the deck, just behind the coaming

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photo of me on the Sunfish with my 5-yr old and 2-yr old sons, 9-yr old son in the blue kayak and wife in the yellow kayak, all enjoying a calm day on Lake Michigan near Arcadia, Michigan.

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16 comments

  1. These picture are so wanderful and amazing ,I
    I am a Chinese ,and I love sailing too. I wish to be your friend.

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    • Linda, i think it would be an ok place to start. You might start him out in lighter winds. And have him practice capsize recovery, to see if he can flip the boat back over by himself.

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  7. Have you ever checked “Alpa Skip”? It’s an Italian clone of Sunfish, quite similar to Super Purpose. I’m trying to put the attension of italian sailors on this boat. Your blog it’s very interesting for me

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      • It’s a pleasure! Alpa was an iconic shipyard in Italian yachting history. Under the leadership of Danilo Cattadori has build beautiful yachts but also great dinghies such as Alpa 550, Alpa S. They build also a Sunfish clone named Alpa Skip that was robust but lighter than sunfish. It is a very good boat, so good that even if the sunfish class is quite strong in Italy, Alpa Skip is today still more common. Alpa skip is the tipycal 80′ and 90′ sailing school or family boat. Cheaper than Sunfish. Easyer than Laser. Actually “Skip” is still produced by Paiardi shipyard (www.paiardi.com) that holds Alpa’s moulds.
        Information are not so common, but you can refer to Alpa Historical Club
        https://www.alpahistorical.org/alpa-skip.html
        One question, being in USA, have you ever managed to add to you collection an old Alcort Sailfish? JFK used sail with it!!

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      • thanks for the video – is that you sailing it? looks quite similar to a Sunfish.
        I’ve never sailed or owned a Sailfish, but am familiar with them – and yes, JFK had great passion for sailing!

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      • No,i’ts a video i’ve found on youtube. Unfortunately I don’t own a boat at the moment, but it’s in my plan to buy an Alpa Skip as soon as possible.

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