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Bring the transom of a Sharpie forward to just aft of the cockpit and you would have a hard-chined planing hull much like my 17-foot Windmill. Add a marconi rig and you couldn’t tell them apart, except that the ‘Mill burdens us with a monstrous long daggerboard instead of that nice pivoting metal centerboard. The Windmill was designed in the 1960’s, I believe, to be homebuilt from plywood, ideal for the planing hull. That low boom gives one a lumpy looking skull after sailing them for a few decades, as i have. Both lovely, quick-to-accelerate, high-pointing boats.
Watching with my nightcap in bed on the laptop. I did watch the racing on the broads on the telly – so far my fave.