15' Gartside Tomales Bay One-Design Sloop (2009) - WREN
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SOLD to a young local couple for their use nearby. They have a larger schooner they keep down the coast some distance that they cruise for longer periods.. WREN will be available for us to sail still. It will be a ‘Good Deal’ for us.——- WREN is the original JESSIE, a 15′ Tomales Bay (California) One-Design. Her owner brought her east from California to Maine when he moved here for a few years but when he returned to California, he left the boat behind and had Paul design and build a slightly larger and lighter boat with a split rig. We purchased her for sailing the local waters of Boothbay Harbor to teach grandchildren and for single handing. A hollow mast and gunter rig make rigging, unrigging and setting sail easy.
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When we sold Wren to the new owner I saw her at her mooring nearby a year or so later. I’d forgotten that she had 150 lbs of lead pigs just forward of the mast to get her down to her designed lines. The new owners took them out I suppose, because she was floating substantially bow up on her new mooring.
Also nice to see the photo of “Sweet Dreams’, also commissioned for Mark Ropers of Tomales Bay, Inverness YC. Her new owners sail on the Chesapeake. I rather hoped she would show up here on the OCH boat show.
Nice to hear from you again. I searched my email files for our last correspondence and read again that Sweet Dreams went quickly once listed and off to the Chesapeake. My brother lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland now and I visit from time to time. I’d dearly love to know where exactly Sweet Dreams is. I always like to keep track of the various moves boats that interest me make. I also found this note from Paul: “Dave, Mark Darley is an interesting fellow with all kinds of irons in the fire. He was a good friend to Mark Ropers in his final years as his health failed. He credits the building of Sweet Dreams, Ropers’ final boat with keeping him alive. It was just too bad that he only got to sail it a couple of times. There we go, a lesson of some kind for all of us – make the most of the summers we have left I guess.
When we sold Wren to the new owner I saw her at her mooring nearby a year or so later. I’d forgotten that she had 150 lbs of lead pigs just forward of the mast to get her down to her designed lines. The new owners took them out I suppose, because she was floating substantially bow up on her new mooring.
Also nice to see the photo of “Sweet Dreams’, also commissioned for Mark Ropers of Tomales Bay, Inverness YC. Her new owners sail on the Chesapeake. I rather hoped she would show up here on the OCH boat show.
Nice to hear from you again. I searched my email files for our last correspondence and read again that Sweet Dreams went quickly once listed and off to the Chesapeake. My brother lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland now and I visit from time to time. I’d dearly love to know where exactly Sweet Dreams is. I always like to keep track of the various moves boats that interest me make. I also found this note from Paul: “Dave, Mark Darley is an interesting fellow with all kinds of irons in the fire. He was a good friend to Mark Ropers in his final years as his health failed. He credits the building of Sweet Dreams, Ropers’ final boat with keeping him alive. It was just too bad that he only got to sail it a couple of times. There we go, a lesson of some kind for all of us – make the most of the summers we have left I guess.
Best to you both,
Paul “
Dave and Margaret, Greetings from Tomales Bay. Good to see “Jessie “ again!
Wren is gorgeous: She is such an elegant girl.
how beautiful
Yours is too!