These photos were taken by top sailing photographer, Billy Black, in Newport and Mystic Seaport. He has generously allowed us to use them in this low resolution form.

Go to Billy's website if you need high resolution versions of these or others of the many photos in the series.

Lite rig, freestanding mast in forward mast step.

This is the same boat that you see in the photos above but now changed into a simple and forgiving boat, requiring a much lower level of skill.