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I have seen several boats with roller booms in our club. All of them are production boats. I attempted a roller mast on a trimaran I built several years ago but aborted the project for standard reef points. We’re lucky here in Texas that we have a long sailing season and also almost the entire coast of Texas is protected by barrier islands. It makes for some great small boat sailing and exploring.

Hell Yeah!

Pleasure meeting you also. That was a fun weekend. Been going through all the video. Ziggy will probably release his video on Sunday.

Yes Ziggy did a great job documenting this boat build. It sails amazing. Needs more sails though 😂 he is having a larger mainsail made and is also talking about adding the mizzen soon.

Lake Somerville in Texas. It’s a wonderful lake for sailing.

It’s an Enigma designed by Matt Layden. It’s the little brother to the more popular Paradox.

Thanks Lee. I hope it made you laugh too!

Thank you for the comment. We have many more adventures planned. Glad you enjoyed.

They are a heavy duty boot that helps protect from oyster reefs and shells. The area north of Port Aransas is full of oyster reefs. If you have to get out of your boat for some reason. Which you probably will. You’re going to want some good protection. A lot of people use tennis shoes. Those shoes from Teva will work just be careful these oyster clusters could get in those openings on the sides.

Thanks Buddy!

That weight was what was recommended for ballast. It sailed best with at least that amount, more was better since it got the chine deeper in the water. I later went with bottled water instead of sandbags. After I drank the water I would refill the bottles with seawater. The cement blocks were formed in the floor of the boat and easily removable. Also secured in case of a knock down.

@willrobertson14 Thank you for your reply. Yes, I have heard of having water-filled canisters as ballast. It is a good choice especially for cruising long distance. It doubles up as portable water storage without losing precious space onboard.

I wouldn’t even think about trying the Texas 200 without reef points. I also wouldn’t want to get stuck in a 50 knot storm in a sunfish! We got in a storm this year that was about 35-40 luckily we got the sail down before it got to us. Another hobie capsized and that ended his trip.

Thank you glad you enjoy these videos!

Thank you. I love the catboats. They are beautiful.

I need one on my Jeep Wrangler. I’m always finding the wrong gear!

​@@willrobertson14 is the Wrangler's shifter one of those very loose and sloppy ones?

⁠@@aaronbryan5095yes it was the rubber bushing that was shot. I welded it solid. It still doesn’t shift very well I think it might be the shifter fork assembly in the transmission.

The hull seams are joined with fiberglass tape inside and out. That’s the only fiberglass on the entire boat. I’m not sure if the builder coated the surface before painting with latex house paint. It’s very simple and easy to repair.

We should have shaken out the reefs. Yes we should have.

Until owning this boat I had never seen a double down haul. What a great tool. The sail tuning ability with the lug and mizzen is amazing!

@@ronkirk5099 that’s a huge trip! I would love to do an adventure like that. Well done. I will look up the book you mentioned. Thank you

Thanks for watching! I would love to visit that area of the country. I have heard it’s beautiful.

@willrobertson14 let me know if you want to cruise up this way...I'm a retired large sailing yacht Captain and after 44 years in the business, still have not seen it all.

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you and your family too. I’ll try to make more videos like this in the future.

We can ask Jim if we can take it for a sail.

Thanks Michael.

Merry Christmas from Texas. Thank you

Thank you. I may try to make more similar videos.

It helped a little bit but it probably wasn’t worth it to install the leeboard. The chine runners were very effective. I wish I still had this boat, I gifted it to another club member here in Texas.

Don’t think I’ve seen a chine runner before. Very interesting. Can you share a little about the boat handling characteristics and what, if anything you might do differently? Thanks for sharing. The magazine cover is definitely cool!

@@timneely946 the chine runners along with the hull design act as a keel. It’s a concept that probably only would work with a small sailboat. The boat needs to be healed over to get the chine deep in the water. Of course you need speed to make it work. I don’t think would change anything about this boat except for I wish I still had it. Gifted it to another club member.

You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed

Thinking about building a similar boat, combining a couple of different boat plans, maybe a little larger cabin for sleeping. Cheers

@@BT-is4zb check out his plans. There are some with larger cabins.

Unfortunately those things are just a bit out of our price range, but it sure is nice to dream.

@@willrobertson14 Indeed. Im dreaming of a smaller home made rather than a third hull.

@@Aheitchoo I’m sure you probably saw the new to me wooden boat in my other videos. Back to a monohull for us.

The Dunes rock!

Thank you! We did take awhile to get going. I guess when we do these type of trips our pace slows down a little bit. Plus when we got home we had to go back to work so we had nothing exciting to look forward to 😁

I didn’t build the boat it was built by Chuck Lienweber. Come join us at next year’s Texas 200. There’s usually a dozen Michalak boats every year. Its my favorite week of the year.

Thank you. She is a good looker for sure.

Well that solves that mystery. That place is crazy incredible. Very interesting.

@@willrobertson14 Yes it's out of this world. I was friends with Doc and actually painted that piece years ago

@@lennydog666 that’s freaking awesome! Amazing place. He must have been very interesting to hang out with.

@@willrobertson14 he was a colorful character for sure!

Buddy built a nice boat. It took him a year to build. It was really cool getting to go sailing on it.

I had know idea that existed. That would have been really nice. Thank you for watching. Please check out some of my other videos.

I’ll work on a good sailing video in the future. It is flat bottom but has bilge panels. It sails like a typical sailboat. I’ve had it above 7mph a couple times but usually cruise 4-5. It’s narrow for its length. Here is some more information on it. duckworks.com/toon19-plans/

Thank you. I’m lucky to have this boat. I’m grateful Chuck chose to send it my direction.

It’s a cool place. One of my favorites. Thank you

Thank you. I’m really enjoying this boat. It’s almost perfect for the area we sail in.

Definitely check out the video in the description. 3 night 4 day trip. It was pretty fun even though we had some rain every morning. I think it rained more in my tent than outside lol

@willrobertson14 oh no lol I'll definitely have to give it a watch

Yes it is. The anchor drug when that northern blew in but the spike did not! Thank you Buddy

Thank you for watching

I’m sorry.

Keith must be having bad day​@@willrobertson14

@@tomwaite4594 we all have bad days

I’ve never sailed it with the cover over the cabin. It stays pretty dry in rough water in there. I’ve sailed it in a thunderstorm pouring down rain 😂 and we had to bail when we got to camp. I’m really excited for this year 200. This is a super shallow water boat that’s lightweight. Don’t have to worry about running aground you just get out and float it back to deeper water. Plus we can carry all the ice cold beer we want!

Think of it as a compromise. The designer of this boat often will design boats to peoples specific needs. This boat spends most of its time doing multi day camping trips in the very shallow back bays of Texas. Take a look at the Toon19 plans on Duckworks, there is a pretty good write up on it. Thank you for the interest. Also check out my video of us sailing this boat on a 3 night 4 day trip ua-cam.com/video/4oxu3zsHjN4/v-deo.htmlsi=nfOZ9LePXa7jtOwr

@@willrobertson14 it’s purpose built design is genius. The only criticism I have is with me not being able to look past the asymmetry.

Yes my favorite also. That was a perfect day of sailing that ended at a perfect camp for the night. Thank you

Thank you

Thank you for the information. It’s a confusing subject for me since I’m very new to this type of rig.

@@willrobertson14 I've heard people say if the sail extends past the rudder then it's a yawl, but i was told by old fellas that the mast must be behind the rudder post

It’s a spot about 6 miles south of the bird island basin boat ramp that is located on the backside of the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas. It’s often referred to as the “Dunes” and is one of my favorite places to sail camp.

Thank you Michael. Enjoying this boat.