“My baby’s bottom!” wrote Kevin Alles. This lovely tender hangs off the stern of Kevin’s Bayfield 32, Sea Alles.Kestrel is a Tumlaren, a 20-square-meter sloop designed by Knud Reimers in the mid-1930s. “She was built in Saskatchewan in 1983 by sculptor David Riome,” wrote Mark Vincent. “We found and fell in love with her in Boothbay, Maine, in 2012 and trucked her to the Pacific Northwest. When she’s in the water, Kestrel is moored at the Semiahmoo Marina in Blaine, Washington.“That’s 9 tons hanging on two 4-inch straps!” Wrote Joel Mastel about his 1992 Catalina 36 Mk II, Aquila, dangling in Port Superior, Wisconsin.Mark Hungerford’s 38-foot Alden Mistral, Carmina Burana, is the first of only about a dozen ever built, this one of fiberglass in an aircraft factory in Portsmouth, England, in 1964. Mark sails on Puget Sound and adds, “Everybody appreciates the view of an Alden’s rear end, although maybe not when they’re being left behind in a race (nothing unseemly intended).”David Fay’s 1967 Alberg 30, Blue Teal, ran aground in Oven Mouth, near Boothbay Harbor in Maine. “It took about 6 hours before she refloated. The scary thing was watching the water creep up the hull and wondering whether the boat would right herself. Just before water came over the cockpit coaming, she started to roll upright. Good old boat!”Mark Fontaine sails his 1966 HR28, Marquesa II around the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario. He also owns a 1947 Owens Cutter named Lady, which he sails out of Annapolis, Maryland.Ed Carter named his Yachtcraft (Islander) 37, Bold Venture for a radio drama he used to listen to as a kid in the 1950s. “I bought the kit directly from Islander Yachts in 1972 and finished her myself in my backyard in El Toro, California. These days, we sail her on Galveston Bay, Texas.”After spending years outfitting a Corbin 39 from a bare hull, here being launched by crane from their property on Bath Creek, Bath, Ontario, David Salter and his wife sold her in 2014 and the new owners sailed her to Australia, where she is today. David Salter now sails a 1978 Mariner 28.Harold Beer sent us this photo of Arcturus, a 1976 Cal 2-27 he sails from Muskegon, Michigan. “We bought her in 2000, spending the money we’d saved for a kitchen remodel on a sailboat. (We are finally finishing the kitchen remodel next week!)”
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