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go into the local West Marine store to look over the sailboat rigging,
the standard, annoyingly cheerful question from the store clerks is
"What are you rigging?". Obviously an attempt to be friendly
and get the customer talking about their boat. My problem with it is
that if I tell them "I'm rigging a Michalak designed 20 foot gaff
rigged lee board sharpie camp cruiser I'm building from plywood and
epoxy." I would generate more questions and have to be sociable... When I was looking for my next boat to build, I looked at many designs. I knew I wanted a camp cruiser, something that I could day sail, and still overnight in if I wanted to. It had to be big enough to carry three or more adults as well. I considered building the Bolger Micro, but even if "real sailors don't sail to windward", I wanted to. I considered a 17 foot camp cruiser from Glen-L, a very pretty boat, but it was a tad small for my tastes. |
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As I kept reading Jim
Michalak's essays
on various aspects of boat building I kept seeing the AF3, and various
tests that were being run on it. My first thought was that it was a,
well, square, boat. As I read more about sharpies though, I began
to see the inherent beauty in the simple designs. The AF3 was a bit small for my needs, but the AF2, now, that was a boat! It didn't hurt that the AF2 would be easy to try different sail rigs on, that it would be easy to build over the winter, that the big flat bottom and shallow buttock angle looked like it would plane easily, and that the plans were only $30 bucks or so. Also, there is something about building the prototype that took my fancy... Anyway, to the pictures! |
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