04/25/2007, Lake Ontario
The hanging locker, together with the head is just abaft the forward stateroom, with a paneled wood door between them.
It is about 30" wide and very commodious. We have seen a few Wanderers where this has been converted to shelves, drawers, or a combination thereof. Other folks just pile duffel bags or sail bags in there, while we have used it as intended, as a clothes closet.
There are several hooks on either side of the aft door, which gives visual privacy from the main salon.
The head is opposite. There is a large, sliding wash basin unit above and outboard of the head. Above the wash basin is a largish locker, while there is a small drawer just under the basin. There is a 24 hour solar vent in the coach roof above the hanging locker and an opening port above the head. If you need a picture of the hanging locker side of this compartment, please email me (click on the "email me" link at the upper right).
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The dining table drops down and becomes part of the base of the port berth in the main salon. That berth is called a double, but probably that is only apt for young children or newly-weds (not to be confused with one another!).
There is considerable storage under, outboard, and above this berth, as well as a drawer that opens into the walkway at the forward end of the cabin.
Opposite the dining table is a 6' 6" settee, which makes a wonderful sea berth, with a lot of storage beneath, as well as outboard the settee, and an open shelf above.
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03/05/2006, South Shore, Lake Ontario
Several people have asked why this wasn't in our blog. Well, I forgot the camera that day. So here's a photo from a 2003 Snipe regatta at Newport Yacht Club, on Irondequoit Bay. Peggy and I served as Principal Race Officers and John Boettcher was kind enough to take this photo of Canto. Please ignore the swim towels on the lifelines. Here's a story from last fall.
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - Yesterday George and I moved his Soverel 33, Outrageous, from Rochester (New York) Yacht Club to Sodus Bay for winter storage and some work by Great Lakes Yacht Works. It's a 30-mile sail along the south shore of Lake Ontario.
The forecast was for a warm (~65 degrees), clear day, but with southwest winds of 25-35 mph, and occasionally gusting higher. Mutual respect and a certain amount of testosterone prevented either of us from doing the intelligent thing by being the first to chicken-out, so we left the mouth of the river at 9 a.m.
My Pearson Wanderer's 7 oz. 100% roller furling working jib was the smallest heavy-duty sail that either of us owned, so that was hoisted on the Soverel's Tuff-Luff. I'm guessing it is about equal to a #4 on the larger, lighter, Soverel 33.
With the main sail cover firmly in place we turned east at the end of the river and headed east toward Sodus Point. The jib filled with a SNAP and set beautifully. The port jib car was pulled forward to power-up the head of the sail; as though we needed any more horsepower! The lake's surface was not just lumpy with waves, but covered with breaking seas and spindrift as the heavy winds blew the tops right off those waves.
With no main set, George reported that the helm was light as we surfed the rhumbline across the building seas of the Irondequoit embayment. We expected that the seas would moderate as we got across the embayment and closed on the Webster shore and got into something of a lee.
We noted several large flocks of black birds with white wings bobbing about in the lake. Our friend John Boettcher later told us that they were probably White-winged Scoters, who fly down from northern Canada and often winter on Lake Ontario. They feed on Zebra Mussels, among other things, so maybe they will help keep that infestation down.
We found little shelter out on the lake by the Webster shoreline. The winds seemed to channel along the shore and became mostly west. Waves were even breaking on the south shore, so we resigned ourselves to living with what Mother Nature was serving.
The fastest we saw was 13.5 knots on the GPS. With just the working jib pulling us down the lake we entered the channel at Sodus Bay at 12:45 p.m. I know (hope?) that's the fastest that jib will ever go while attached to a boat. Needless to say, it was a fun day.
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