One of the things that makes sailing so different from so many other recreatonal activities is the extreme variety sailors have in choice of 'equipment'. Compare it to tennis or hiking or just about anything. As a sailor you can choose a traditional tallship, a foiling Moth or a Rhodes 19. Or build some unique vessel all your own. We have no idea how many different models of sailboats exist in the world but one website with a pretty darn good list is sailboatdata.com which has 7,486 different sailboat models listed. And are they different. Consider these below:
It's impossible to imagine the vast variety of boats created over the last 4,000 years of sailing and, unlike tennis, when you go sailing it really could be viewed as almost entirely different sports.
Now could we get all 7,486 boats listed in Sailboatdata.com sailing on the same weekend? It's a challenge but if, over time, we really get the whole world sailing it will happen. Do you have a unique boat or one not widely known? Make sure you sign it up for Summer Sailstice. Maybe you'll be adding the 7,487th design to Sailboatdata.com!
What will you be sailing on Summer Sailstice?
Know what this is? Neither do we but someone's having fun.
