Hi Jay,
Thanks for posting this and adding the video to the home page!
We're off to a great start with the crowd funding so far at just about $1500 in 2 days and we are working to keep the momentum going.
If you can share these links with as many fellow sailors and friends as you can to help spread the word it is truly appreciated!
I just spent about an hour chatting with Larry Kendall today about his beginnings at boat building and creating the Kendall 32, the precursor to the Westsail 32. The Kendall 32 was taken from the Atkins/Thistle design and shrinking down to scale the Colin Archer 47. Really interesting history.
http://www.atkinboatplans.com/Sail/Thistle.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Archer
"Archer's designs were adapted to pleasure sailing in the twentieth century. In 1904, he built a boat for the writer Robert Erskine Childers named the Asgard; the boat is now in a museum and considered the "most important yacht in the history of Ireland".In 1928, William Atkin scaled down Archer's 47-foot (14 m) Regis Voyager, a pilot boat, to make the 32-foot (9.8 m) Eric, and in 1934 the 38-foot (12 m) Ingrid . The Eric went on to become very influential in ocean sailing, with boats such as Vito Dumas's Lehg II and Robin Knox-Johnston's Suhaili making notable circumnavigations, the latter becoming the first boat to be sailed single-handed and non-stop around the world. In the 1970s, the design was adapted to glass-reinforced plastic by William Crealock, and became the Westsail 32; this famous cruising boat has, in turn, inspired many imitations, so that the "Archer double-ender" style of boat continues to be popular to the present day."
We are working on setting up some dates later this year to interview Larry. He's 79 and sharp as a tack!
Cheers,
Randy
W32 Tortuga
