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Two new family boats
Welcome our two new boats in the family. Yes, we are talking model boats. We now have two Dragonflite 95 kit boats we put together on the dinning room table boat shop. It was great fun putting them together, and even more fun sailing/racing. Brad Read started the Newport, RI fleet two years ago, with a lot of help from fleet members. The racing is close, if not at times bumper car close, but still great fun. The growing fleet races Saturday and Sunday at 9:30 am for 90 minutes and tries for 10 races. We hope to add a…
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Rejuvenated and Diving In
We just came back from an 18 day break visiting old and new friends down the east coast. While also getting in a week of wing foiling in Key West and Miami (where Carol sailed Comodoro Rasco Snipe Regatta) with great conditions in warm water. We did take some POV footage foiling, and I will put that together soon. It is always nice to travel, and always nice to be home. I feel fully recharged with the days getting longer, and am having a blast working long hard days for Paul Cronin Studios. As I said in my update for…
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Paul Cronin Studio Updates for 2022
I hope everyone had a great holiday season? I am always excited with the calendar changing over to the New Year. For me it sparks ideas, and gives me some time in January to implement them. Let me first catch up for the silence I have had on the site, it was a busy year. Racing the TransPac 2021 was a great experience with a team I had only sailed the California Offshore week with prior. Since a kid the Santa Cruz 50 has been my dreamboat to race to Hawaii. And this one has a Tuttle rudder, nice transom…
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2022
What a ride is has been for 2021. Had a fun time meeting some great people sailing down the West Coast, and in the TransPac. Have some new clients, fun with Carol foiling, Matsya, and traveling. And a loss that will always hurt, but we all grow and learn with life. Some exciting changes now the Kincora is sold. Lots of foiling coming, sailing with new clients, photography store up on the site soon. And back doing design work with an empty shop to try new ideas. So 2022 will be packed full, and hope it is the best year…
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Kincora is SOLD
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Best Raw Sailing you can do!
Summertime I love it, warm water, sea breeze, and sailing all the time. I am now home from TransPac (post with video coming), we are sailing Kincora, and Matsya, and I am back foiling. Foil windsurfing to me is the best raw sailing you can do. Before foiling, windsurfing was my best raw sailing, but adding a foil is a whole new layer. The gear is small, light, easy to rig, and it is all about the sailor, no wand, just your core. Get it wrong and you face plant, get it right and you will never forget the moment…
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Trogear Bow Sprit Solves it Again
I thought about building a sprit for my second Archambault 31, but only for about a week. Sure I could engineer it, build it, and then install it. But would it do all the things I want out of a sprit? Most likely, but the time and expense would not be well spent since I was just keeping up with the refit schedule this past off-season. So I made the wise decision, and went to Trogear for the second time, and am happy I did. This sprit is longer then the last one, for many reasons. First it helps the…
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Using the Core/Vector Feel for Boat Speed
What the hell does that mean Paul? Well we hear it in sport all the time, he or she has the feel, or they are in the zone, or look at that comeback. When we race sailboats this is one of the many skills we need to develop to be successful. There are ways to train for getting in the feel, which will help you, get close, and then there is the natural talent that covers the last 8-10 percent. I thought of this post while sailing in the California Offshore Week on a Santa Cruz 50. It had been…
Capturing the Passion
