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The Gary Underwood story – Under the radar

The Boating New Zealand magazine published an article back in September 2019 about Gary Underwood, the designer of Shoestring...

…is not going to happen. I’ve thought about it a lot during the past two weeks, I’ve been studying...

First of all let me apologize for not updating this site in a very long time, it’s actually been...

Roger Scott has just put up his Shoestring for sale on JRA (edit: ad has been removed). Shoestring has...

In my last post I mentioned that I haven’t found any production boats in the max 36-37 ft range...

All right. The dust has settled. Time to put up some pictures! I started out the build in my...

Note: Still tagging this as the “Wing Sail build 2015” as it’s basically a step towards it. Converting this...

After a lot of delays this spring I’m again working on the sail. I’ve decided, due to time constraints,...

Just started putting more focus on the actual sail plan. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far. There...

To continue the last article from a few weeks back, soft wing sails are a natural step forward from...