Okay Pete,

What I wonder is how many Patins are sailed outside of Spain. Is there one in the US????

In the time I owned one (15 years ago) there were only two in Holland (my friend had one and I had one).
By the way I found mine totally destroyed in a garbage container near the beach; so I had to rebuilt it completely. The mast was gone too, but I could use an old sawn-off H14 mast (which I first had to bend straight with fireheating and a jump on it with two men). Those were the days..

Anyway a Patin a Vela is a very, very simple cat, back to the beginning of sailing. Undestructable on the beach, just a hull frame, a mast, four stays, a sail with no battens and one sheetrope with no delay.

It takes 5 minutes to rig it completely and ready to sail.


ronald
RAIDER-15 (homebuilt)

hey boy, what did you do over there, alone far out at sea?..
"huh....., that's the only place where I'm happy, sir.