Sailing Stories

Orbit II: Stories of sailing around the North Atlantic in a 35' steel schooner, 2000-2002

 

 

 

Rosemary Ruth: My current boat, a 40' steel schooner, 2004-now

Rosemary Ruth is now FOR SALE

 

Issuma is a 15m (50') steel staysail schooner with lifting keel, built by META in France to a Damien II design. The draft when sailing is 3.1m (10.5'). When motoring, the keel can be raised to reduce the draft to as little as 1.3m (4.3') to get into shallow places. There is a blog about my travels in this boat at http://www.sailblogs.com/member/rhudson