Shadow Line is for sale

The current owner of Shadow Line injured his back shortly after purchasing the boat, and has been considering selling it ever since. He's listed her for sale on Latitude 38. The boat is in Monterey, but it's easy to truck around. Here's the link:
http://latitude38.com/classifieds/classy_display.lasso?cat=24

Jolly Roger for sale in Ventura

There's a JR listed on Ventura Craigslist for sale for $600. If anyone's interested, here's the link: http://ventura.craigslist.org/boa/2679222951.html
I'm happy to help out with inspecting and thinking about restoration...

Windward Yachts Jolly Roger 24

While I owned Shadow Line I had a whole webpage devoted to my research about the Jolly Roger model, and the builder, Windward Yachts. Since that webpage is now defunct, I thought I would post this information here, for posterity.

Initial contact with the previous owner of my boat, John Healy, had revealed the following:

I did find a bit about it in an old BUC book (the boating world's version if the car world's Kelley Blue Book). She was built in Jacksonville Florida by Windward Yachts.  They built boats just two years 1968 and 1969. In '68 they build two Windward 30' boats; a 23'4" Jolly-Roger and a 21'6" Windward. In '69 they built only two models; a 23'4" Windward 24 and a 21' Trail-n-sail.

They list the 1968 JR as a sloop, sail, fiberglass, keel boat, outboard power; 7'3" beam; 3350 pounds weight and 3' draft.

This actually didn't jibe with me. Shadow was older (1965), and the hoist showed her clocking in at 2,200 pounds.

In October 2008, when I listed Shadow Line for sale, I was contacted by Kathy Broyles, who was an invaluable resource in providing information about the boat and the builder. In her words:

My dad, Ken Broyles, designed and built the line of Jolly Roger boats. He had a shop in Costa Mesa in the early 60's and did business under the name of "Windward Yachts" and Ken Broyles Inc.
We also manufactured a 21' weekender and a 15" day sailer. We advertised in Yachting Magazine from about 1962 to 1968. My family owned Windward Yachts in Costa Mesa, CA from the late 1950's through 1967 and manufactured the hand-laid fiberglass boats including a 24 foot model which he named the Jolly Roger. The closest competitive boat at the time was 'The Venture'. The emblem on the original sails was a skull and crossbone. 

My dad built the molds for these boats in our family garage in Westminster, CA back in the early 1960's. He had a shop in Costa Mesa until late 1967. At that time we moved to Jacksonville, FL for one school year and continued to build boats. (Which would explain the guy with the boat from Jacksonville). After that the business moved to Miami, Florida where in 1976 my dad and mom divorced and my dad sold what was left of the business.  

Our Jolly Roger was featured in Yachting Magazine when I was 12 and I was in the photo in the magazine ad. My dad shot all his own photos of the boats from a motor boat while my mom took prospective buyers out for "test sails". I have attached 2 photos taken about 1965-66 by my dad. My mom is at the helm of the blurry one.

Before I sold Shadow I was aware of the following boats in California:

• Shadow Line - Hull #27 - now in Monterey, CA
• Nuestra - probably still in Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard, CA
• Spam - Santa Barbara, CA
• Ann Bonnie - Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard, CA
• Minuet in Sea - Vallejo, CA

I know the Nuestra was sailed around Pt. Conception by its owner while towing a dinghy, and it was a great story!

Shadow Line has a new owner

Shadow Line's new owner
Originally uploaded by slampoud

This is Shadow Line's new owner Steve. We hauled the boat on Wednesday, and Steve is having her trucked up to Monterey. I hope she keeps him safe and dry!

South winds be damned

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Originally uploaded by slampoud

This Saturday Alli and I decided to head to the backside of Anacapa for an overnight trip. However the wind was from due South and only about 6 kts, so we tacked back and forth in vain for 4 hours and got about halfway there. Sigh. We had a great time nevertheless, saw a roving pod of dolphins several times, and got a chance to practice foresail changes. Alli also went overboard and got a nice tow-swim, and I got a fabulous sunburn on my back. On the way back I decided to see whether Shadow balances as well as Nevermind under jib alone -- we did much of the trip from Monterey to Pt Conception that way in 2005. Indeed she does! It was super fun to fly down the channel towards the slip under genoa, turn west and drop it, and zoom into the slip. Best docking I've ever done :-)

Nevermind the weather

 

Paolo and I took Shadow out yesterday afternoon for a lazy sail. It was light air 4-5 kts, so I did a sail change to the genoa, for practice, instead of putting it up right away. Shadow tracked nicely in the light air, and we passed a bunch of much bigger boats which were on a lower course than us when we were heading back into the harbor. Nevermind was also out, so I took a picture.

New rubrail

 

The new rubrail looks great!