Ryan, What was your grandmother's family name? I may know them. I have a lot of ties to Culver; the academy and the community, and Lake Maxinkuckee. I graduated from the Culver Summer Naval School in '77.

I've sailed that home-built Sailfish many times on that lake, along with all the variety of boats the academy has had over the years (they now have a large fleet of Interlakes as trainers), including their 65' three-masted square-rigger.


I'll add here that my point to starting this thread was... Any beginner boat that inspires a love of sailing has done
it's job. From Snark to keelboat, it doesn't matter, as long as it was there. Although it's interesting, not one respondent has mentioned Optimists.