Various Sailboats 2002

Article By Shorty


Milton "Skip" Johnson designed an outrigger type sailboat for a boat design contest.

Here skip is posing with his Granddaughters' first canoe, and the wooden sit-on-top kayak he built called the "Bionic Log".

You can't see very well from these pictures, but the deck plates he used are actually rubbermaid containers that have had the tops cut off. What an ingenious way to use a cheap and readily available material! I can't remember who I was admiring them with, but he mentioned that Home Depot has 5 gallon buckets with screw off lids that would be perfect for turning into waterproof hatches.



Here is Jerry Scott on the left, and Roger Harlow on the right.

Roger designed a beautiful boat called a "Nabisco" that is of similar concept to a brick, but with many refinements and lots of pretty details.

This is the next generation of the Nabisco, a bit bigger, but still as beautiful as the first.

Roger's son taking it for a ride.



Greg Rinaca brought a new prirogue.
He told me an interesting story that happened to him on Lake Livingston (which is just a little bit to the North of here). One day while out sailing with his wife at Lake Livingston in a Dave Carnel $200 sailboat, he sailed right up on top of a submerged stump. He gestured the size to be about 6" in diameter. Evidently this stump came right up thru the 1/4" plywood bottom of is boat and they started to sink. He quickly handed his wife a cushion and had her sit on the stump. As he tried to free them, the wind healed them over and blew them off the stump. They sailed back to the dock all the way with his wife sitting on the cushion, and nobody they saw on the way back was the wiser.



Not sure what happened to Greg's wife, but this is Greg's girlfriend Christina Wycoff -- this is the third year in a row that she has fully attended the messabout, and I heard a rumor that she is going to build a boat for the next gathering. Wonder what it will be?


Greg also brought his Michalak designed Jonsboat.

Randy Watkins brought this beautiful fiberglass lapstrake dinghy. It also has a sail rig, and when I saw it I declared "You are one of us Randy, you have a polytarp sail!!!". Then he pulled back the polytarp to expose the dacron underneath (with a big grin). Randy is a very active member in the Texas Gulf Coast Potters Association, a sailing group that ventures in the waters around here.

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