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Permalink Reply by Rick Newman on July 12, 2010 at 8:34am

Nice setup, how do you get through town with that sticking up? What a great place to sail, some really great scenery. What is a Tirfor griphoist?

Enjoy your summer!

Rick Newman

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Permalink Reply by eric stevens on July 12, 2010 at 9:05am

That is beautiful !! How long did it take to build it? You should post some build pics if you have them.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Wilson on July 12, 2010 at 5:24pm

Eric and Rick, thanks for the notes. Eric, I didn't have the pleasure to build the yawl, it was built by Damian McLaughlin in Falmouth, MA http://www.dmcboats.com/ in 1997; we've had it for about 3 years and this is the first summer on the lake in Teton Park.

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Permalink Reply by Don Hanson on May 15, 2011 at 2:59pm

  I built my first 'big' boat there, too...or most of it.   A 22' cold molded cedar fast trailerable sloop with a fractional rig and a dagger keel.  Built it outside behind my house by the Wilson Arena, then took the mostly finished hull along when I moved to Gig Harbor, Washington and finished it while working in a boatyard there.  I sailed that one around Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands, took it to the Port Townsend Wooden Boat show and won a bunch of races with it when I wasn't crewing on the 46' Peterson design we built and raced at Blue Heron Yachts.  I was able to keep mine at the pier at the yard, or tied out to our staging float in Gig Harbor.  I sold that one to another Jackson Hole transplant who had moved to the NW also.

  I did another 'lake boat' while living there...a 20' Rangley Lakes boat...again cold molded.  I put a Lazer sail rig in that one, as well as set it up for two persons to row.  What a screamer...but Jackson Lake is a very frustrating place to try to sail..

  Don Hanson

 

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