A website dedicated to building and sailing ENETAI, our 26' Norwalk Islands Sharpie sailboat. The 26 footer is one of a series of cruising sharpies designed by Bruce Kirby. We launched her in 1998. We day-sail and cruise mostly in Maine.
October 2020: I'm still here. We have been very busy the last few years. We moved to Maine in 2019, (yay!) which was a huge deal for us after living in our old house for 33 years. Enetai is now an in-the-water boat, complete with a mooring and bottom paint. We have done a lot of daysailing, especially dinner cruises, the last two summers but no overnight cruises. We built a boathouse/garage this Spring and Summer to keep her comfortable in the off season.
We have also been touring the US the last few years in a slightly dilapidated motorhome that has it's own problems and needs.
I am going to try to write up our 2018 trip to the North Channel of Lake Huron before I forget too many details. I do remember the bear on Heywood Island. And bombing down Collins Inlet, a narrow cleft in the granite for 17 miles on a broad reach.
Latest :
Updated 08 October 2020: I'm still here. Notes on home page.(scroll down)
Updated 28 November 2017: Added Summer 2017 cruise around Nova Scotia to the Sailing page.
Updated 20 August 2017: Replaced sailing photos in the photo gallery to show off our beautiful new sails.
Updated: 20 February 2017 Added Summer 2016 cruise: Salem Massachusetts to the Canadian border to the Sailing page.
Updated: 24 March 2016 revised Trailer page. Latest on Kodiak disc brakes after 5 seasons of use.
Updated: 29 February 2016 Divided Champlain-Hudson-Long Island Sound cruise into 4 parts to improve readability.
Updated: 8 February 2016 Added 2015 Champlain-Hudson-Long Island Sound cruise to the Sailing page.
Updated: 19 April 2015 Added 2014 St Lawrence cruise to the Sailing page.
Updated: 3 July 2013
Added cockpit lockers and midship mooring cleats to the Details page.
Updated: 10 October 2012 Updated Building, Trailer pages.
Updated: 30 March 2012 Added 2009 trip to Northumberland Strait to the Sailing page
Updated: 03 October 2011 Added rudder and tiller to the details page
Updated: 15 Mar 2011 Added Granny Pram to the Details page
Updated: 4 Sep 2010
Added video clip to sailing (2010)
Updated: 11 July 2010
Added video to details/mast raising and sailing (2008)
Added disk brake update to trailer page