Thank you Don and Carol. I have been blessed with not only the best and most loyal customers in the boat business, but the honor of working in the boat shop...
Newbie here. I am within one quarter of finishing boatbuilding school and wish to build a wood 15-16 foot daysailer ( all I have room for) in the spring. I...
Gerard, I have a Crawford Melonseed. They will take wind in a chop but you will get wet. They are very forgiving boats and can handle rough conditions in...
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There are a few differences between the plans you may be looking at for a 13'9" MS from Barto and the Crawford MS most of us on this site sail. Roger C...
OK, this sounds like a dumb question but I've never even seen a Melonseed in the water( Roger will have mine built by April) and I'm puzzled about the best...
Hi Jim From Kingston Point, its a beach at low tide with the ramp left high and dry, at low tide i may only be in 2 ft of water or less for 50 to 75 yards, I...
Jim, All right, at your expense, very briefly, and I'm going to have a tiny bit of fun here: yeah, do it that way. Jump on the bow and fling yourself around...
Jim, You'll be surprised at how stable a Seed is when you first step aboard. When I launch from a dock I step down into the bottom of the boat from the side....
HI, JIm, I think boarding by the bow, using the mast as a support, will get you suddenly dunked. The MS's fine bow lacks the beam and volume to support and...
Hi George, Thanks for that. What is "Keel Guard"? Jim From: melonseedskiffmelonheads@yahoogroups.com [mailto:melonseedskiffmelonheads@yahoogroups.com] On...
Ralph, Trevor & Jesse, Thanks to all of you for the fulsome responses (even the tongue-in-cheek portions). I think I understand the technique for boarding...
On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:36 PM, JAMES LEHR wrote: What is “Keel Guard”? Jim Jim, Keel Guard is a wide vinyl strip applied to the bow curve to protect it from...
Paddle float re-entry It just occurred to me that I would throw this out into the mix with regards to re-entering the boat after a nice swim on a hot day (or...
I swim off the boat all the time. To get back in I use the rear deck of the boat. Push the tiller away, grab to combing, pull/slide your way up on to the...
Great idea Roger. A picture is worth a thousand words; a video perhaps more. Maybe this will help some of the non kayakers get an idea of a paddle float...
Somewhat on that subject....... Several years ago we had one of the Summer Solstice Regatta events in Hingham Harbor. It was a nice sunny day, pleasant...
Wow. Two things that became apparent today: 1) For a boat born-and-bred on the New England coast, the Melonseed most assuredly feels at home on Florida waters....
Hey, I was there for that! I remember being one of the cheer-ers and hooters! For those of you (lake sailors in particular) who wonder how a Melonseed could...
Karen, While you're here in sunny Florida, point Folderol a bit east to the Charlotte Harbor Yacht Club and meet some of the 2.4mR handicapped sailors...
John, are you down here currently? Let me know if you'd like to get together for a sail. :-) My brother was telling me about the 2.4mR sailors. We saw a few...
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Twelve knots of wind, Eleven Melonseeds a sailing, (three) Ten foot spars, Nine minutes to launch and...
For a few chuckles we've pasted the (now very) old Christmas story about the Night Before the Regatta up on the MS home page for those of you who are newcomers...
Here we are again at the winter solstice, rounding the mark towards that time six months from now when we'll be sailing in the Melonseed Summer Solstice...
Oh, Roger, I'm glad you brought up the Solstice -- it had escaped me. Yeah, it's always a morale booster to know that the minutes of daylight are going to...
