Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/29

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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 37: Sailing around Friesland with a fellow LUGger
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Thu Sep 29 14:53:04 2005

Correction - Not dagger boards, of course, your boat has lee boards. 
My typing got ahead of my brain.  Also, having checked the 
dictionary, I am reminded that a lugger is a two- or three-masted 
lug-rigged (i.e., has a gaff as well as a boom for the sails) 
sailboat.
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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
>
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Regards,

Dick
Boston MA