Bull's Eye by Mark Chadwick
September 2009 Update
Where we started from this season
Fitting the outer shears
Outer shear to Breasthook
Inner & Outer shear join
Mast step with mast end cap in place for final test fit
Mast and boom standing for the first time
Hull complete and assembled for trials. Still some work to
complete final trim
Final assembly of the rig
Ready for Trials!
Touches water for the first time. She floats!
Under tow heading for the lake
Under sail for her trials
Her colours are white and green
My daughter has been working up the graphics and when her name is ready for the hull we will have the commissioning ceremony to officially receive her name. She will at that point receive the name Sparrow.
My daughters all loved the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and Capt. Jack Sparrow. I liked the name as it was the name of the first command of Captain Richard Bolitho in a series of books by Alexander Kent (excellent reading!)
The image on our sail is a drawing done by my daughter of the tattoo Capt. Sparrow has on his arm in the movie. She works part time at a company that has the ability to do embroidery, screen printing etc. We obtained material normally used for sail numbers from the sail maker. She did all the layout work and then had the machine cut the image. The result was then transferred to the sail (mirror image on both sides).
We think she ended up looking pretty good!
At Anchor
Thanks to everyone in your organization.
Best regards,
Mark Chadwick
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada