What is the Minisail?

If you have got this far, you are likely to be either a Minisail owner, or someone with a passing knowledge of boats. But just in case...

The Minisail is a flat bottomed, round bowed dinght designed in 1959 by Ian Proctor, one of the most successful dinghy designers of all time. More on him in the future, I'm sure!

A picture is worth a thousand words, so here goes:

That is Peter Matthews, sailing his recently purchased Minisail, a very early GRP version, a Monaco MK1. There is more on the differnt designs of Minisail on the Minisail website, www.minisail.org.

 And this is me sailing a wooden Sprite design, with a lovely new sail from R&J sails. More on that another time, too!

Minisail News

A few months ago, I brought out a pdf newsletter, Minisail News, to begin to bring news, hints and updates to Minisail sailors, via the Minisail website, www.minisail.org.uk.

However, that does seem rather 19th century, harking back to the days of giant printing presses, the Royal Mail and proper paper. What was needed, really, was a 20th century approach... wel, we wouldn't want to get too up to date now, would we?

So, the answer would appear to be a blog...this way, when an article comes in, or something interesting happens in the world of the Minisail, it can be posted straight away, rather than waiting several months for the newsletter to come out.

And it can be commented on, by you, the reader, I think... I am still working out how all this blogging stuff works!