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?