Hi Bruce, I got a good laugh when looking at your profile picture. Where we sail we get both Can/Usa Coast Guards passing our boat from time to time but the trend seens that yours likes to go heavy on firepower, speed, and boat size. Whereas we look after navigation, tend bouys, do the easy stuff, Like eh! were Canadians eh! Hockey is our thing as we've got 7 months of winter! ;)

Hi Frank,

Are you a Sailing Instructor? If so in which association do you belong to and what courses do they offer?

As far as your Golden HInde boat you sure have kept the woodwork in nice shape, what did you use? I have been looking for a used small drifter/spinniker myself but haven't found one yet.

I like your humor! You seem to be true Sea Dog Type of Sailor! Can create a storm or weather one anytime.

It's lucky for you mate that I sailed into these new waters before testing the currents and without looking around with me looking glass. I hadn't planned to be a priate to plunder and run, but we'll be here in the harbor and docking from time to time.

Anyways thanks for helping out and adding yar input. Actuallly I just discovered this website today and the overall boaters.com concept community is really a good one idea. Being new though I didn't needed to greet eveyone twice as i had already done so in the group thing that i also created, but then who reads everything on a map! I guess it will be revised it a bit and it sure is nice that you replied so quickly to greet me.

Anyway the problem is that when you buy a old sailboat, and it's no longer in production, no new parts, and you have no documentation, and you need technical help, what do you do? Talk to old sailors and then scour the web, but if you can't seem to find much info (hey for a boat close of 40 years there should be lots of data out there) you start beach combing, collecting from all over and then build a web site to put it all together.

Ayways, the overall goal is to promote Sailing, and to help others learn the sport as well. Having a such a small ship means that the turnover is high as there is a lot of upgrading to bigger ones hence constantly having new folks learing the ropes.

The purpose the Sandpiper 565 Sailboat Owners Group, Forum, and Website, is for Sandpiper 565 Sailboat Owners to collaborate; hang out, share photos, ideas, and technical advice.

The Sandpiper 565 is a Sailing Sloop and can be classified as a pocket or compact cruiser, a micro-cruiser, or a trailer sailor. The Sandpiper 565 was orginally built in England and then in Canada. The Sandpiper is popular in eastern Canada and in the Great Lakes region and intended for recreational cruising and overnight stays. The Sandpiper 565 can be sailed single handedly, has a wide beam for stability, and is built to Loyds of London Shipyards Standards.

Some of the features of the Sandpiper 565 Sailboat are; small size (18.6 feet or 5.65 meters), lightweight and trailerable (1200 lbs), contains a cabin (headroom 4'4", sleeps 4), with a mast 22 feet high, with a hull speed of 5.8 mph.

The SANDPIPER 565 SAILBOAT OWNERS GROUP has a website at www.sandpiper565.com that helps out those who are new to Sandpiper Sailing, and provides a portal site to known Sandpiper Information, URL links, Photos, Movies, and includes a Sandpiper Boat Registry.

Hence do enjoy these resources and feel free to add to them to promote overall Sandpier 565 Sailing.

Thanks.