Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michiel - Thanks for letting me know. What ever its type, you have one beautiful boat. It looks like its well adapted to your sailing conditions. I'm with the apparent ease with which you can raise and lower the mast. Are the dagger boards as easy to deal with as well? As a long-time sailor with an appreciation of traditional boats. I'm jealous. >Richard S. Taylor wrote: >>Nathan - I cannot tell you how much I envy you this sail on such a >>wonderful traditional Dutch thin-water boat. I feel like I know >>that territory from having re-read "Riddle of the Sands" at least a >>half dozen times but would have loved to actually sail there. >>That's a beautiful little boat, too. It just glows with the loving >>care its owner gives it. >> >>I hope you had a great time despite the weather. Great pix, too. >> >>B.T.W., if I'm not mistaken, isn't that sailboat type with that rig >>actually called, yes, wait for it,... a *lugger*? >> > >Hi Richard, > >It's a'Fries jacht' or in Englisch 'Frisian yacht' > >Cheers, > >Michiel Fokkema > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Dick Boston MA