Sailing on "Wooton"...

We were going to do some sailing on kimosabi last Sunday-Tuesday but I got a call to help deliver a boat from Mackinac Island to Chicago. So...

We get to the island and what do we see...

Bob Seger's new ride at the dock after the Port Huron Mac.

The ride was on "Wooton", a Rogers 46 owned by a gentleman from Chicago, and it was interesting. She had just finished the Port Huron Mac also, taking 1st in Section.

Along for the ride was Captain Larry Burris and Rich Baker, a first class mate.

This boat is an all carbon racing rocket. See: http://www.bangthecorner.com/news/read/5126

Bob Perry also recently reviewed the boat. See: http://www.sailingonline.com/perry_rodgers46.html

Going to weather on "Wooton"gave new meaning to the term "beating" for me. With its flat bottom, while sailing or motoring into 2-3 seas, it was like being inside a timpani while someone was playing it... Boom...Boom...Boom

The helm was so responsive one could drive the boat standing backwards......


The Rogers 46 has a bulb keel drawing 9'6", a plumb bow and a VERY flat bottom., making her a downwind flyer.

When we got to Chicago we learned that the boat's berth at Belmont Harbor was an exciting place over the weekend. Two power boats docked one finger away caught fire and sank. Here the dock is being repaired and the photo of the Pacific Seacraft on the same pier as "Wooton" shows fire damage to one side.

Check out her sailing in light air below!!