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Wednesday, April 25. 2007

Boat designer of the day: Skip Etchells

Boat designer Skip Etchells, who lived in Connecticut during most of his career, is best known for the International Etchells. That sailboat is no comfortable day-sailer, but a sleek, knife-like racing boat which unfortunately was never chosen as an Olympic class, but which has been a racing sailboat of choice for many of the best skippers in the word.

Etchells are still going strong after Skip's death.

 

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For me it was a Snipe that first let me soar as helmswoman with Goomp as my mentor in Annisquam Yacht Club races way back when. Later as the mentor myself when Tuck and I plied the New England coast on our own bottom in the totally awesome 30-foot Redwing "Dove," the most intense moments were when it was just the "Dove" and myself -- with Tuck under the weather down under the galley table -- against the elements, she herself telling me which way to go. A Winthrop Yacht Club group heading back from Scituate to Boston one wild and wooly Sunday was my moment in the sun. All the guy-skippered boats went the safe route inside the Boston Harbor islands, while the "Dove" beckoned me to go outside. Terrified, I followed her lead and reached the finish line way before those sissy boys.
#1 Sissy Willis (Link) on 2007-04-25 08:44 (Reply)
Completely forgot about Snipes. Wonder whether they still exist.
#2 BD on 2007-04-25 08:51 (Reply)
It looks like it's not a corpse yet:

Serious Sailing, Serious Fun.®

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8219384/
#3 Sissy Willis (Link) on 2007-04-25 08:59 (Reply)
Oh, Sheryl Crow. That link was stuck in the annoyingly sticky iMac select-and-paste. Here's the correct link for all things Snipe (I hope):

http://www.snipe.org/
#4 Sissy Willis (Link) on 2007-04-25 09:02 (Reply)
The Etchells is a thoroughbred, no doubt about it. Much faster and more kindly to the eye than the Soling. For my taste, being a member of the geriatric set, my next, ultimate and penultimate racing boat would be the Wyliecat 30. It now looks like it will elude my grasp. But if I ever obtain one, it would be, happily, my last boat
#5 Vigilante (Link) on 2007-05-06 18:10 (Reply)

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