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Project "Sailboat"

I will be using this site to document the resurrection of this glorious sailing vessel.  Built in 1979 by Waterhouse & May Ltd in Pickering, Ontario.  These boats are still built today by C&L Boatworks in Fort Erie, Ontario http://www.clboatworks.com/.  The boat is modeled after the British Wayfarer 16 http://www.uswayfarer.org/.  Frank Dye has made many amazing voyages in this boat including an 11 day 650 mile Atlantic crossing from Scotland to Iceland.  He has documented many of these trips in his three books.

Here are all the before pictures taken on the day we brought the boat home.





































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