Huge bucks for an HR. Incidentially, the guy that owned the marina I worked for first year out of college had one of the 5 Hatteras 65 SAILboats ever made.

Sailing has got to be my all-time favorite hobby. It even beats working on my diesels. My dad has a 22ft Dolphin on the lake that's about 100 yards from my house. Its a pretty good sized lake, too. There's nothing like being out there by yourself with the wind giving you a lift, riding that sweet spot. I also get rides on small boats when I can and I hang out at the local sailing club whenever work permits. I own a 19ft Allen Lightening that I'm attempting to restore and a 14 ft Kite that needs a new dagger board. My parents regulary go to the Keys and I have a fellow Mercedes diesel owner friend who's promised me a trip on his 42ft boat, also in the Keys, in exchange for some work I helped him with on his diesel. Man I can't wait till next summer.

Lightning's haul ass! Tough boat to race (for me).

The next realistic sailboat in my future is a Cape Dory 28 when my girls get bigger.

All here seen "Wind" ??
 

Remember that PM comment about Cliff Robertson and the movie Wind being one of our favorites ?
Now there’s a movie most of these posters should have.

We’ve got a Laser II GP “Blow Me!!“, the wife and I race. She (wife) lives for hanging out on trap. An old (‘71?) Holiday Newport 19 “Amante” that’s up for restoration this summer and then teaching the kids. And a Hunter 386 “Infinity 4”, up on Texoma, that sailor15015 needs to get down from Norman and give a go just to keep her loose.

I’ll do a motorboat any day. So long as it’s my 14-6 cedar skiff “Vivienne” with the Johnson Seahorse 5 on the transom.:D

So Hat made sailboats? I will have to dig up info on them. Chris Craft did as well, they made a 42 that was an S&S design. Really nice boat, only made about 65 of them. They are built like tanks, because back in the late 60's and 70's they just loaded up on the fiberglass.

I'm not a hard core sailer like you folks (hell, I have not been on the water in years) but I grew up with a Skylark. It was a blast to sail. 14ft with a 21ft mast IIRC. It had a tunnel hull with twin keel daggers.

I wish I could find one again. I would love to have one again.


http://www.spruce.ca/images/Skylark/SkylarkManual1.jpg

was it indy/F1... i rember watching something on cig boats. my step dads friend has one

He was murdered in his 560SL convertable :silly:

Rassys quick??? I don't think so. Way too much wetted surface area and way too much wieght. If you want quick that you can cruise in try this...
http://www.wizardyachts.com/listings/sc52_allure/index.html

Hat, we're gonna make a tree hugger outta you yet.

Nothing on google, so I called a connected friend in High Point since I brought it up. I will share what he recalls when he gets back to me. The owner claimed that 5 sisters were made and that there were three afloat in 1994. This was a huge beamy motor sailor with full protection like a Nauticat, ect.... The owner died in a car wreck in 95 so I don't know what happened to the boat.

Hatt, I almost had a seizure when the Hatt archivist just called my office!!!!!!!!! Check it out: http://www.hatterasowners.com/Brochures/65SY/65SYArchives.htm

She said there were actually only 3 made: one went to my guy in VA, one went to the Islands and one went to the West Coast.

I am familer with the Santa Cruz, I still like the HR's better. Swans even more so.

Thats a neat boat that Hat made. Looks just like an Irwin. Actualy the layout inside is similer to the Irwin 52 I was on today. Although its probably built a lot better. Like a typical Hat it weighs a lot! Nice boat, maybe one day I'll get lucky and get to check one out.

Its a Hood design so it must sail pretty decent.

I want to edit my statement. I talked to a couple of people today with some serious ocean time. I am not that familer with Santa Cruz and wanted to be. SC's are good for going around the mark but light toys for offshore work. One took a 70 back from the USVI's and had a bit of weather, he thought that boat was going to come apart. He called my friend when he got back and said he wished he took the Swan 46 back.:D

So in conclusion Santa Cruz are light around the mark boats. Rassy is a different animal.

I grew up working the backstays on a wooden-masted Star. And Dad sank Corky Shields' Star right in front of the Larchmont Yacht Club one sunny afternoon on the Sound.

Used to race PHRF handicap every weekend too.