The Paine 15 is a new sailing design which will be built by Todd French up in Belfast. The first one is sold and will be sailed near San Francisco, and the second is just getting started for a very special customer. She is the latest design in my series of high performance keelboats styled to look like the Herreshoff 12 1/2.
At the festival we arranged to meet up with “Queen Bee” and her partner Mikey. She is the little lady that lived aboard her 24-foot “CAROL”, a little double ender of my design that one cannot stand up in, for a number of years. The boat was on a mooring, so she had to row into shore to go to work and row back to spend the night on the boat. Part of the fun of doing what I do ffor a living is meeting interesting people like Bee.
MY VISIT TO THE AUSTRALIA WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL