Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Lluis. This whole boating pad thing has been fun but I'm glad I won't be posting daily images, at least for a while. Regards, Dick off-list comments to r.s.taylor at comcast dot net please. On Nov 1, 2008, at 6:40 AM, Lluis Ripoll wrote: > Nice!, I like this style 50's... "Time Life Magazine" > > Lluis > > > El 30/10/2008, a las 1:26, Richard S. Taylor escribi?: > >> This is "Bewitched," a 23' on the waterline cutter-rigged sloop, >> under full sail on Buzzards Bay last August. Most of the photos >> I've posted in this PAD were taken from her cockpit. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2008_PAD/300_2526-2.jpg.html >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/66fdky >> >> Sam Crocker designed the boat in 1931. She was originally built in >> wood specifically for the waters of Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound >> and has some of the prettiest lines of any boat sailing today. Her >> large main, staysail and jib allow her to ghost along in the >> lightest of breezes but also allow her to be reefed quickly to deal >> with the worst the Bay or the Sound are likely to throw at a sailor >> on even day when it really honks. Best of all, she won't even dump >> much water in the cockpit when it blows like that. She is simply a >> pleasure to sail and a beautiful boat to boot. >> >> So, thanks to Tom and Lynne, her owners, and to Dory the Leapin' >> Lab* for may happy weekend afternoons sailing through the summer, >> for all those boating lunches you provided, and for the opportunity >> to take the pictures I've shown the LUG over the last month or so. >> I'm looking forward to more of the same next year. >> >> Time to move on, photographically. I wonder if there's any Fall >> color left to shoot... >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> off-list comments to r.s.taylor at comcast dot net please. >> >> *See here if you miss the reference: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2008_PAD/300_3174.jpg.html >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/3t8ljp >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information