| "Mr. Squiggly" 1993 Thirty five inches on deck, three masted ketch. The sails were made of this high-tec stuff used for the skin of a radio controlled glider. Mica-film I think it was called. Sortof like Tyvec but probably lighter. More recently a couple of years ago I attempted to make this one into a wall hanging sculpture. I took everything out of her including the deck, keel rudder, radio components, and I painted the whole inside white with light green circles here and there. Then I added wooden feet on her bottom so she could hang on the wall with her bow pointing upwards without rolling around. The result looked too pretentious to me so I put in in storage. I guess it didn't turn me on as much as it did when it actually floated and sailed around the pool. I do remember making endless drawings of her sail-plan in a kind of pictorial way until I got it right. She was a blast on a down-wind run with her low sail-plan, long lightweight balsa hull. Gee, as I write this (7/06) I feel like dusting off her plans If I still have them and making a "Mr. Squiggly II" she got her name from her odd habit of drifting sideways at low speed in light wind due to her small keel which I later enlarged. |