From the following article on the excellent small trimarans blog:
http://smalltrimarans.com/blog/?p=10766
White Waterman and Blue Waterman – An adventure in the North Channel
– July 2013
Mac MacDevitt – Windrider 17 Trimaran
The Odd Couple
No predicting a how a beach cruising
adventure is going to turn out. Paul and I both have Windrider 17 trimarans. But
we were certainly the odd couple. Found him on the Windrider forum. Paul is a
white water canoe trekking adventurer. He gloried in incredibly challenging long
trips, far from support, dealing with ice, overturned canoes, lost gear and
paddles and rugged wilderness camping. His Windrider 17 was his first sailboat
and he was learning to sail by the seat of his pants. Couldn’t name many of the
lines or the stays or the fittings. Before this trip he had never sailed alone.
Not sure how he was going to manage hoisting the main without someone to steer
into the wind. Had no idea why anyone might want to make the mainsail smaller –
never reefed.
Blue Waterman (Lite)
Compared to
Paul I was Blue Waterman. Well, not really – not compared to other sailors who
have made serious off-shore passages – maybe Lite-Blue Waterman. I started
sailing with bigger trimarans on Lake Champlain, a Jim Brown 27 and a 31,
finishing up with a Corsair 27. And I’ve gotten in lots of tight spots: cracked
an ama on a dock piling on the Chesapeake, ran seriously aground and had to wade
out with an anchor and kedge off before the situation would require a dredger
and a tow (and that was with the whole family aboard), even once sailed for
quite a while in high winds off Valcour Island before realizing that my sluggish
performance had to do with the new Honda 8 outboard I was trolling behind the
boat connected only by the control cables.
read more here
Thanks for posting your adventure!
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