Comments on: A Sail-and-Oar Cruise in the San Juans    https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/a-sail-and-oar-cruise-in-the-san-juans/ Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:04:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Barry Muller https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/a-sail-and-oar-cruise-in-the-san-juans/#comment-143923 Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:04:21 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=188788#comment-143923 I really enjoyed your story about the season’s shake-down cruise on the Haven 12 1/2 and it brought back many memories visiting my parents who bought a house on Chuckanut Dr. after my father retired in the late 1980s. Although I’m an avid sea kayaker, the only time I was on a boat in that area was paddling my father’s Old Town canoe in the bay below Chuckanut hills.

Thanks for the great story and accompanying pictures of such a beautiful part of the world.

]]> By: Brad Kurlancheek https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/a-sail-and-oar-cruise-in-the-san-juans/#comment-135584 Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:18:11 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=188788#comment-135584 As beautiful as the writing, and scenery, are, wish you had shown a bit more of the interior, and closer pics of the boat overall, of this apparently very well kept 25 year old Haven 12 1/2.

]]> By: Scott Grealish https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/a-sail-and-oar-cruise-in-the-san-juans/#comment-135226 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:56:20 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=188788#comment-135226 Wonderfully observant and descriptive writing….and understated. It’s not trivial managing higher winds against tide in a 12 1/2. Capable as they are, freeboard is still low and swamping is a real risk. Captain Nat Herreshoff knew that, and designed front and rear watertight compartments (perhaps recalling his own youthful adventures whilst designing the “Buzzard’s Bay Boys Boat”)

But to flesh out the bio a bit for other readers, Sean was sailing these waters in this boat at 18 months onwards, so he “knows” it a fair bit better than most (says the proud dad).

The article does clear up a recent conversation we had before the unmentioned trip:
Sean- Do you think that forward watertight compartment would keep Lazy Dog afloat?
Dad- Yeah pretty sure….why?
Sean- Just wondering…

]]> By: Thomas Buzzi https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/a-sail-and-oar-cruise-in-the-san-juans/#comment-134280 Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:35:40 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=188788#comment-134280 I kayaked among the San Juans decades ago. Always meant to return under sail but that is still in my bucket list.

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