!6 year old girl wants to sail solo around the world

[Valve Bounce]

Hey valve, check out the PDs at the 2009 Texas 200, a sort of sailing free-for-all.

Ya gotta link?

[Hondo]

Here's a link to the Texas 200 and there will be assorted PDR links within it. The PDRs were quite the heros last year. I may give it a go in 2010, but not in my PDR. It's a great little boat, for what it is. I built mine to the Oz specs with some legal modifications like an additional bouancy tank at the rear and a pivoting leeboard on the port side. Leeboards are ugly but they free up interior room. Anyway, If I get a wild hair, Sweetie and I can be sailing in 30 minutes. Throw the PDR in the back of the pickup and head for the lake. It takes more time to get Sweetie in her life vest than it does to rig the boat.

http://www.texas200.com/

http://waderweb.com/events/090608_tx200/index.htm

[gloomyDAY]

I'll start on her obituary.

[Valve Bounce]

Here's a link to the Texas 200 and there will be assorted PDR links within it. The PDRs were quite the heros last year. I may give it a go in 2010, but not in my PDR. It's a great little boat, for what it is. I built mine to the Oz specs with some legal modifications like an additional bouancy tank at the rear and a pivoting leeboard on the port side. Leeboards are ugly but they free up interior room. Anyway, If I get a wild hair, Sweetie and I can be sailing in 30 minutes. Throw the PDR in the back of the pickup and head for the lake. It takes more time to get Sweetie in her life vest than it does to rig the boat.

http://www.texas200.com/

http://waderweb.com/events/090608_tx200/index.htm

Very interesting yacht - lotsa sail area. I like the part that it will plane.
I wonder how the skiffs which race around Sydney harbour will go.

There ya go: http://www.18footers.com.au/index.ph...ff-racing.html

I'm going to get on a Manly Ferry one day to watch them, I vow!!

[Hondo]

Very interesting yacht - lotsa sail area. I like the part that it will plane.
I wonder how the skiffs which race around Sydney harbour will go.

There ya go: http://www.18footers.com.au/index.ph...ff-racing.html

I'm going to get on a Manly Ferry one day to watch them, I vow!!

Nice boats but I'd bet they are costly at this point. I like my Duck. I'm not young anymore and "Duck Nuts" can be sailed with a minimum of effort, you can sit in it or on it, a sort of bean bag pillow makes a conformal seat where ever you want to put it, and yes, my cheap, homemade blue poly tarp sails work great.

[Azumanga Davo]

I'll start on her obituary.

My thoughts exactly...

[Alfa Fan]

Why does the title of this thread still say 6 year old? That would have been far more interesting

[Valve Bounce]

Why does the title of this thread still say 6 year old? That would have been far more interesting

It needs to be corrected really. I wanted to post 16 but hit a cap on the way to the one.

Anyway, although she is still touted as being sixteen, she is really seventeen as her birthday was reported as yesterday, making her 17.

And yeah! Fiero, that Duck of yours looks really comfortable. The dinghy I used to sail was an Enterprise, http://images.google.com.au/images?s...ed=0CCEQsAQwAw
Which has got to be one of the most uncomfortable dinghies to lean out on.