Pics from the shakedown sail!

By Sailor Keddy -
Great times last Monday, thanks to all who could attend. More to come!

Note the chainplates in the first two pics, working hard!



Nefertiti in front of Clingstone. The boat I had the pleasure of working on this spring. I know the contours bottom of that hull more intimately than anyone ever should. Boom of Soveraine in the foreground.


Left to right: Seabass, Gretchen, Micah and Liz. And myself. Thanks to Miss Watson for taking the picture from the poop deck.


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