THE FIRST DAY

This is the first chapter of our little day sailer; recently bought on eBay. This film was taken the day I brought it home after purchasing it in Southold, New York. We live very close to Bellport Bay on Long Island. It is very shallow here, and we cannot have a boat with a large keel (ours has a swing keel). This boat also easily becomes a little motor boat, as you will see in my next video, cruising around our bay with a classic 1973 Johnson 4 hp 2 stroke motor. At the time of this video, new sails are being made at Doyle Sails in Huntington, NY. Through researching, I found that Philip L. Rhodes was the original designer of this boat in 1960 an the original builder was Atlantic Fiberglass , although this version was built by American Fiberglass Corp. in February of 1974. His 12 Meter Weatherly won the America’s Cup in 1962. David Stanton of American Sails, SC was also very helpful in providing information about this boat. I am hoping to deal with him soon for more parts for this classic sail boat. If you have any information you may be able to share or photographs or your own American Kingfisher III, that would be greatly appreciated. You may contact me at cdalego@aol.com. I hope by posting this I may inspire other King Fisher III owners to write about or film their boats as well. There is not much information to be found online at this point in time — they are almost forgotten about.

Oday Widgeon is very close to this design

look for us sailing out on the great South Bay of Long Island to Davis Park Fire Island or camping at Smith Point a Suffolk County Park campground

HAPPY SAILS TO YOU… until we meet again.

hope you enjoyed our little movie with the boat with a pirates flag jolly roger

American Sails are a great resource for parts for this and many other boats

visit there site for sailboats and parts

http://www.americansail.com/

this sailboat A.K.A as a Fractional Sloop The Mainsail goes to the top of the mast, but the Jib stops short of the top of the mast.

HANG ON SLOOPY HANG ON!!!

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HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM THE FIRST DAY BELOW ENJOY