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Picture 22 of 24 from Album Mary Sunshine
s/v Mary Sunshine, a 1983 Hinckley Sou'wester 59, no. 3 in a series still built today though with a different keel, an american traditional stiff and weatherly sloop from a time mostly gone by now, displacing 69,000 lbs. with over 24,000 lbs. in external lead ballast and a skeg hung rudder (nice when/if I ground her). Beautiful workmanship and thoughtful design touches, some of which are seen less and less today - a wet locker at the foot of the companionway, a large nav station and a separate large chart table to lay out your full size chart and get a good feel for your situational awareness (yes, I scold myself to still do this even with two chartplotters aboard and a handheld Garmin, and keeping the sobering example of the Volvo Ocean Race Vestas Wind to mind). Also a large sail locker in the forepeak, a walk in and sit down engine room, large tankage (300 gal diesel and 450 gal water), center cockpit with a good stout main sheet and traveller aft of the cockpit, large foretriangle with a movable forestay for a staysail or storm staysail, and a very open saloon. Lovely sea motion, she loves to make 8-9 knots in a fresh breeze. Old school for sure, and I love it.
s/v Mary Sunshine, a 1983 Hinckley Sou'wester 59, no. 3 in a series still built today though with a different keel, an american traditional stiff and weatherly sloop from a time mostly gone by now, displacing 69,000 lbs. with over 24,000 lbs. in external lead ballast and a skeg hung rudder (nice when/if I ground her). Beautiful workmanship and thoughtful design touches, some of which are seen less and less today - a wet locker at the foot of the companionway, a large nav station and a separate large chart table to lay out your full size chart and get a good feel for your situational awareness (yes, I scold myself to still do this even with two chartplotters aboard and a handheld Garmin, and keeping the sobering example of the Volvo Ocean Race Vestas Wind to mind). Also a large sail locker in the forepeak, a walk in and sit down engine room, large tankage (300 gal diesel and 450 gal water), center cockpit with a good stout main sheet and traveller aft of the cockpit, large foretriangle with a movable forestay for a staysail or storm staysail, and a very open saloon. Lovely sea motion, she loves to make 8-9 knots in a fresh breeze. Old school for sure, and I love it.
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