Someone on the list said that they also had a
Windmill.
T'would be me. I own Windmill #5400,
which I built along with numbers 5380 and 5381, and I used to own
#3247. Neat class; one of the few if not the only in which you
can home-build a boat that's competitive and legal on the race course.
Also nice folks.
Windmills are strongest in the MidWest and on
the Gulf Coast. Like most dinghy classes they have waned since the
70's, but 35 boats still appear for the Nationals. The Nationals this
year are at the Rock Hall Yacht Club in Maryland, where I am not
coincidentally a member, and where Chimpanzee-the-Montgomery 15 will live
eventually.
>
>Well, now it is two of us. I picked
up Windmill hull 2895 today.
I owned two other Windmills years age and
finally changed to
other boats because the 'Mill was too
athletic. Must be senile because
>at age 64 I have another.
>
I don't think you're senile. Some large
percentage of the top ten finishers in the Nationals each year are your
age. It's a fun boat, not to be mistaken for a daysailer. But
wicked fast and without the bother of a spinnaker. And as I've noted,
the jibs fit great on Montgomery 15's.
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>Anyone know what happened to
the Windmill web site?