22 Mar 22:
Our little Alcort Sailfish WINNIE was spotted in the current issue of WoodenBoat, Number 285, with Skipper at the helm. This year marks 75 years of Alcort's first sailboat design, the little yacht that started it all.
The 11' 7" Sailfish is the boat that you learn to swim on, and during the pandemic we saw a resurgence in popularity as folks dug them out from under their family porches and put them back out to sea again. WINNIE came to us via car top from our friend Alan about 6 years ago, in pieces.
We repaired some leaks and put her back together. Fair, prime, paint.
She dates to around 1953, and has the nice vintage silk blend sail with a sewn on cloth logo.
Wood, bronze and soft line, doesn't get much better than that.
We restored WINNIE while also restoring BARBASHELA and building ST. JACQUES. Selaed her leaks with thickened epoxy and rolled 2 coats of epoxy onto her bottom and sides.
WINNIE borrowed paint from BARBASHELA, Valspar Ultra 4000 alkyd enamel Swiss Coffee and Whipped Apricot. Skipper of course was the Functional Check Float (FCF) and Sea Trial pilot. Skipper likes WINNIE's simplicity, one stick, one string, and says the Sailfish is just fun.
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I enjoyed WINNIE in "kayak mode." She is also a very stable SUP.
Lateen rig, 65 square feet. Shown here with our trademarked "Geezer Rig," where the sail rig is set high, so the boom clears the noggin.
The Sailfish design evolved into a 13' 7" wooden Sailfish 14, aka Super Sailfish and the wooden Sunfish, 13' 7" with a wider beam, cockpit and 75 sf lateen sail. (1953 Sunfish ZIP and WINNIE shown below)
FMI: Log Of WINNIE
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