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09-AUG-2007	by Arthur Langley

Tanton 43 ketch AVELINDA

Rockland ME

met owner who had done a write up on her boat in the August 2007 issue of Cruising World

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Nonsuch Photo Galleries		14-Dec-2009 02:40
A most interesting comment was left on this gallery in the past day but it was unsigned, unvarifiable, and in this condition cannot be published. If the author would please leave his/her name and e-address it would allow this fine comment to be published. Thank you. :)

Guest		13-Dec-2009 04:37
My dad built all of these boats. I installed all the masts and rigging and everything else on all of them. I delivered lots of them many times all up and down the East Coast, and took them in a lot of races too. We won the Bermuda Race and a lot of others. They are fantastic. The easiest rig to handle, bar none. You can definitely run the reef lines into the cockpit and rig lazy jacks under the wishbones (like this one has them) and do all reefing without leaving the cockpit. You tack or gybe just by turning the wheel. I have done gybes all standing in 30-40 kts of wind, like butter because the wishbone acts as a shock absorber. I have tacked up narrow channels, even through a drawbridge singlehanded with a broken down engine, no problem. I have sailed backwards off a grounding with no engine. The boat is perfectly balanced and will steer herself upwind with just the wheel brake on for miles and miles without having to move the wheel. The rig is so strong and foolproof it is the best thing about it. You only need to check the deck partners and the mast step, rather than 18 or 20 turnbuckles, clevis and cotter pins which are all potential failure points. The rig is so light it improves the stiffness and lack of pitching, plus allows the boat to get away with only five foot draft but sail upwind right with the full race boats. Downwind she really hits her pace and you can pass boats flying chutes and trimming in a frenzy while sipping a beer and steering with your foot. This was probably one of the most seaworthy boats I have ever been on, and I've been on a LOT. While fast and fairly light, she is built like a tank. One of them broke loose in a hurricane and surged about Ipswich harbor and sank four other boats while suffering minimal damage. I had various ones through several gales up to 100 kts and 20 foot waves with no trouble at all. Plus this particular one has the teak decks which were an option and are a major improvement in my opinion. Hopefully this boat is hull number 6 which for some reason was the fastest one, I had her hit 18.6 knots as the all time top speed, surfing down a big wave.

Guest		19-Aug-2008 21:01
re Hardwoods Fall Forest and wildCryImages.com.... forgot to add my email: susan.wortman@primus.ca thanks, Susan

Guest		19-Aug-2008 21:00
Are you the Geoffrey Iles who does photography in Ontario Canad? I've been trying to access your website, wildCryImages.com without success....bought one of your photos on canvas...Hardwoods Fall Forest....love it! Let me know if you are still doing photography...would love to see more, thanks, Susan

Geoffrey Iles		14-Jul-2008 12:09
Since reading the article in Cruising world I have become very interested in the Tanton rig. I am getting on in years and have been wondering how easily the sails are reefed under this system. Can it be done from the cockpit with some form of "slab reefing" using the wishbone to cradle the redundant canvas? How many reefing points are practical given the two sails and all the rope slab reefing would involve? I envisage using the last reef point as the "storm sail". My current yacht is a Laser. I have just added a 50 foot main sheet in an attempt to maintain my trophy here on Aylen Lake this summer - ie I hope to enhance downwind performance!