Flicka Spellbound

The newsletter knows her as Escape, on San Francisco Bay. Flicka Friends #34 (Spring 2005) records her at the third annual Angel Island rendezvous over the weekend of 29 April 2005, arriving Saturday morning and lying on a mooring alongside Dream Catcher and Hotspur — five Flickas attended, a record for the group at the time.

A decade later her third owner, Bob Borgilt, gave Flicka Friends #64 (Fall 2015) a photographic profile of hull #201, more than two hundred pictures shot over two days at Sausalito. He had put five years and more than $6,000 into a boat he found in original condition: all lines led aft to the cockpit, jiffy reefing to spin lock cleats under a low-profile dodger of his own design, salon doors in place of the drop boards, an icebox lined with one-inch styrofoam that kept three blocks of ice for nine days, and bronze port screens made to order in Edina, Minnesota. He repaired the thin inner edges of the teak cap rail with epoxy and stainless wire nails, sailed her single-handed with an Autohelm, and lived aboard nine days a month.

This Flicka (#201) was recently (2018) bought in the San Francisco Bay Area where it will remain.  It's name has been changed from Escape to Spellbound as I am held "spellbound" in her presence. She has been well maintained, but is quite basic as far as equipment.  I plan to transfer a Monitor windvane from my Cal 20, Black Feathers, to her soon. She will remain in this area as long as I do! As most Flicka owners will agree, she is a treasure.