Photos and Feedback from the Owner

[Tim]

For you daysailor (aka Windsong) fans, I thought I'd provide a quick update on the boat.

I recently spoke with the owner, and he says he's thrilled with the boat and her performance. He said that all his guests who have been aboard want one of their own now.

In a separate email, he wrote, "Windsong sails like a dream, like I expected it would, and you get 10 Gold stars for putting this design together." Nice to hear.

Here are a few recent photos of the boat under sail. They need some vang tension, and more jib halyard tension, but otherwise she looks good!

[bcooke]

So does that mean we can expect a flood of Daysailors to begin emerging from the new Whitefield facility soon?...

Beware Triton Owners! Someone wants to cut up your boat :-)

Luckily there are more than enough Tritons that would benefit from a daysailor conversion - could be the best new trend to happen to the Triton fleet in 20 years. If it keeps them alive I am all for it.

Really though, it must be nice having all that planning, sweating, bleeding, worrying, struggling and general harrassment from the forum crowd be so positively validated.

2 Kudos (to borrow from MySpace).

-Britton

[bcooke]

Hah! I just noticed the Lackey Sailing emblem on the mainsail. Nice touch.

-B.

[David VanDenburgh]

What a strong sense of accomplishment and pride you must have. I'm thrilled for you.

David

[PGplastic]

Wow! She is Beautiful!!

I noticed the reflections in the finish.

Worthy goal to strive for such a beautiful finish. We'll see.

Great job!!

Paul

[Figment]

Vang tension, halyard tension, etc.... pesky details.
In the Big Picture, she's a stunner, and she's making people happy.
Fantastic.

[bcooke]

Vang tension, halyard tension, etc.... pesky details

Tim is nothing if not a fanatic about those pesky details.

That's why we all love him so much!

[MikeD]

Thanks for the update Tim! A beautiful and graceful design, skillfully executed. She looks absolutely gorgeous under sail. Sheer poetry.

[Peter]

Awesome boat. How great to have the new owner so happy with his new baby.

...sheer poetry

or shold that be "shear poetry" ;-)

[Robert The Gray]

The caliber of your work and high level of finish standards set a high instructive bar for us all. This is as it should be, quality work must be acknowledged. It is nice to know that even with the incredible creative power of the electronic age, where by we of course see this wonder of a boat, a simple vision, pursured with intensity and purpose can yeild a thing of timeless beauty. The integration of radical thinking and classic rigor can be seen within the small of the toe railat the stern, and the large of the cabintop placement within the length of the boat. The concrete form of your vision has an existence of her own now. Her beauty will attract the proper attention like a flowers' form draws the bee. Truly a vessel with which to gather the seas harvest of incredible memories. Long may she sing. Congrats Tim!

On a more practical note I think the fin keel underbody makes a very uncomfortable boat at anchor. These modern underbodied daysailors would just wrap the heck out of the keel with the rode here in our tidal areas.

My humble opinion
R

[Robert The Gray]

PS
Are those BIG men or do I have a smaller boat than I thought?

R

[Shark]

Windsong is just beautiful ...

Congratulations Tim.

Lyman

[Tim]

Are those BIG men or do I have a smaller boat than I thought?

hehe...no, the boat is small!

One thing I've noticed about Tritons is that they look much larger than they are...until you put a person in the way to provide the necessary scale. With one or more people on board, the true smallness of the Triton really comes through. I had the same thoughts looking at these photos--that the boat looks really small compared to her occupants!

Part of this is caused by the fact that the cockpit and seats on Windsong are located rather high, with a low coaming to keep the looks appropriate. So the people in the cockpit seem to loom far above the deck. But then the deck design was all about looks.

I would have loved to have built a deeper, more encompassing cockpit (more like an Ensign), but my design requirement to have the cockpit remain easily self-bailing (unlike an Ensign), as well as provide room for an engine beneath the sole, meant that the sole had to be higher than that. That said, I kept the sole as low as possible given those requirements.

Great boat, Tritons...but filled with design compromises!

[The Good Goose]

Tim
congratulations she looks great. I think you got her balanced a little better than the triton. Look where he's holding the tiller and with one hand no less. I don't have a problem with you cutting up a triton to make a beautiful boat But removing the weather helm! That crosses the line.

Seriously I hope you get some more orders she's a beauty.Maybe you should take a break from building and sail on her for a day. You never really got a chance to try her out.

Brock

[Tim]

But removing the weather helm! That crosses the line.

That's just proof that she's really not a Triton anymore!

I think the overall diet that the boat went on during construction and the shift of some of the weight forward (engine, for example) may have helped the balance. The rudder is also redesigned with more area at the bottom.

I'm just glad to see her being enjoyed. That was the point.