A wet sheet and a
flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast,
And fills the white and rustling sail,
And bends the gallant mast.
And bends the gallant mast, my boys,
While like the eagle free
Away the good ship flies, and leaves
Old England on the lee.
Allan Cunningham
Buying a boat
How to Decide if Buying an Older Boat
is Right for You - Food for thought before you purchase that used boat. One of the
things that I did when I purchased Wisp was to have her surveyed. The survey was
reasonably priced and gave me a clear picture of her condition.
A Comfortable Pocket Cruiser
Sailboat
Chip's Pocket Cruising Page
Boat Check - Read the good and the bad
about the boat in which you are interested.
Sailboat List Archived
Boat Show
Selecting a Cruising Boat
The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Bryan W. Proctor
Small Boat Camping and Cruising
Jeroen Hoekstra's Dinghy
Cruising Page
Open Boat Cruising
Trailer Sailor Europe
Trailer Sailor
Boats and Ships...
and Trailer Sailing
Cruising Dinghies and Trailer
Sailers
Lacasita Dinghy Database
Dinghy Cruising Association
To cruise an open
boat is to play with the powerful elements.
Plan well, listen to experience, and stay safe.
Johnny Adams
I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea!
I am where I would ever be,
With the blue above and the blue below,
And silence wheresoe'er I go
Bryan W. Proctor
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Boats for Sale
AAAA
Sailboats
Marine Mart's Boatlist
By-the-Sea
Boats for Sale
Soundings
Starboard Tack
University of Rhode Island
Foundation
Bargain News
Classifieds
2000 - This was where I saw Wisp first advertised.
Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam,
Where the shrill winds whistle free.
Charles MacKay
Boat Building, Repairing, and Projects
BYYC (Back Yard Yacht Club)
- The plans are inexpensive and they have a wonderful video that show how to build their
Weekender. Small Island is a
support and help site for people building BYYC boats.
Clark Craft
Common Sense Designs
Worldboating
Duckworks Magazine
McNaugthon Associates
Devlin Wooden Boat Builders
Glen-L
H. H. Payson & Co. - Home of the
"Instant" Boats
Jim Michalak's Boat Page
Shell Boats
Messing about in Boats
Building the Vagabond Plus
Do-It-Yourself
Cymodocea - An
Australian micro-cruiser
SBI Marine - Lots of
traditional British boats in Salty's catalog.
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I know where the most
perfect silence is,
Seen it in the wild blue off Hatteras,
A mile out, rainbowed sails in silent bliss,
Looked like they'd collide, but they safely passed.
Drake Raft
Bob's Hot
Boating Tips
San Juan 23 Guide to Trailer
Light Troubleshooting
Repacking Trailer
Bearings
Ray's Santana 2023C Projects
I must go down to the
seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a gray mist on the sea's face, and a gray dawn breaking
John Masefield
There is
nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats.
In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter.
Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it.
Whether you get away, or whether you don't;
whether you arrive at your destination
or whether you reach somewhere else,
or whether you never get anywhere at all,
you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular;
and when you've done it there's always something else to do,
and you can do it if you like,
but you'd much better not.
Kenneth
Grahame
Some Voyages and Cruising Pages
Voyages of the Spellbinder I
Sailing the Dream
Avalon of Arne
Blue Moon
Chalupa
Cruise the Sea of Cortez
Go West
Krynos
Mid-Life Cruising Sabbatical
Out of Bounds
Shadowfox
AdventureGrrl!
Snow Goose
My soul is full
of longing
For the secret of the sea,
And the heart of the great ocean
Sends a thrilling pulse through me.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
West Wight Potter Sites
In the July, 1999 issue, Cruising World Magazine wrote of the West Wight Potter 15 foot sailboat as "a springy-sheared cockleshell of a cruiser that's only 15 feet long. Its diminutive size hasn't held it back from becoming one of the all-time favorite mini-cruisers, and thousands of these boats have been made and are still sailing today." (I am not sure what "springy-sheared cockleshell" means, but it sure sounds salty to me!) They also say that the 15 foot Potter stuffs basic sleeping and other amenities into an eccentric 15-foot hull topped with a saucy sheer and a high roach mainsail." The 19-foot Potter is described as the "biggest boat of this group (under $10,000) and, although she feels an order of magnitude larger than her sister, can still be trailed behind a compact car."
International Marine
West
Wight Potters
Pot Wight (British Potters)
Sailor's Sourcebook P15
Sailor's Sourcebook P19
Boatshow P15
Boatshow P19
Potter Yachters
East Coast Potters Association
Minnesota Potters Association
Rocky Mountain Potters
Association
South Carolina Potters
Club
Southern California Potters
T-Pots Texas-Gulf
Coast Potters
Colorado Potter
Get Together
Beatrix (Potter)
J. J. Falkanger's Trip to Cape Lookout
on Fozzguppy
Judy B's West Wight Potter Pages
Paul's Home Page
Kidogo
Amazing Grace II
Deep
Blue
Don, Nancy, and Emily Evans
West Wight Potter
Kirilou and the Swan
Little Dipper
Guinea Pig
Pierless
Potter 19 Avid Sailor
Rye's Short Rig P-19
Sayoko's Page - Pictures showing a installation
of a new motor mount for P-19 Sayoko.
Sea Squirt
Sterling's
West Wight Potter (19) Site
Oh swiftly glides the
bonnie boat,
Just parted from the shore,
Joanna Baillie
Other Micro Cruisers
There are a number of other manufacturers that make fine micro-cruisers. It is certainly worth looking at these other sites so that you can get the best boat for your particular needs.
Montgomery 15 and 17
The Peep Hen 14
Com-Pac 16
Com-Pac 19
Catalina 16
A little theory
goes a long way toward developing
an understanding of how a sailboat works,
but getting in the boat and actually going sailing
is more fun.
John Rousmarniere
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A collection of sea shanties, fo'c's'le songs, forebitters, sea songs, sailing songs, old songs, new songs, some popular and Bob Hornett's favorites |
Got out of town on a
boat goin' to southern islands
Sailing a reach before a followin' sea
She was makin' for the trades on the outside,
And the downhill run to Papeete Bay...
When you see the Southern Cross for the first time
You understand now why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from is so small
But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day
So I'm sailing for tomorrow, my dreams are a dyin'.....
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
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The sail, the
play of its pulse so like our own lives:
so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest,
so noisy and impatient when least effective.
Henry David Thoreau
To reach the
port of heaven,
we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against the it,
but we must sail, and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take the Boat US
Safety Course.
The cabin of a
small yacht is truly a wonderful thing;
not only will it shelter you from the tempest,
but from other troubles of life;
it is a safe retreat.
L. Francis Herreshoff
Everything
significant is small and slow.
Richard Bode