this weekend is the great Port Soy Boat festival
traditional boats gather from all over the East Coast
Some of them arrived as we were coming back to Whitehills this morning. The weather gods are not being that nice for Saturday - but Sunday looks pretty good for filming them from Katie L
interesting rig, gaff schooner? 2 masted cat boat?
lug ketch? Thanks, Dylan, as always.
That dipping lug has some lovely curves; looks pretty close winded in the first shot. Did you get to see them tack it?
Saves a bit of work lugging the sail around.
A couple of those pics look like it’s on port tack, with the sail aback. A real drive killer. But they’ve got the standing lug mizzen set, so it doesn’t matter as much. Thanks for the link. I think this is the rig Phil Bolger used on his Resolution.