Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Friday, 10 February 2012

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!