Made To Measure

I’ve always known the importance of having good sails. As a low-budget boat punk, I prioritize making sure I can get where I’m going with the help of the wind, as opposed to under power. It isn’t necessarily my goal to be engineless, or basically engineless. It just happens that way, as I never seem have enough money to put much in the way of resources into an engine when there are other, more pressing matters necessary to make the boat seaworthy.

Like sails.

My current boat, , is a 1962 Tripp 29 with an electric inboard that has a max range of nine miles traveling at 3 knots in a dead calm. Before that I had a 2.5hp outboard on a boat displacing nearly 10,000lb. At times my only form of auxiliary propulsion has been a sculling oar. My first boat had an old Johnson 9.9 that died soon