Flicka QED

QED was built by her owner, Dave Kenyon, who told the story in a series that began in Flicka Friends #19 (Fall 2000). In late 1974, aged seventeen, he paid $110 for a set of lofting sheets and drawings for a ferro-cement Flicka, then decided to build the hull in fiberglass instead, setting up plywood mold ribs in his parents' side yard in Rochester, New York. Thirteen years and about $15,000 in materials later she was finished — a home-built hull carrying a Pacific Seacraft Flicka deck, a green topsides and a gaff rig on a tabernacle mast step that lets one person raise and lower it.

He launched her in the Bohemia River at the head of Chesapeake Bay in June 1987, and sailed that summer to a Pacific Seacraft rendezvous at St. Michaels, Maryland, where he had dinner with Katy Burke. In 1994 he trailered her to Southern California, lived aboard at Newport Beach for four months and then sailed five years out of San Diego and Los Angeles; in 1998 he entered her in the Newport-to-Ensenada race and finished seventh in the cruising division. By the time the last installment appeared in Flicka Friends #22 (Summer 2001) she was back on Chesapeake Bay at Herrington Harbor south of Annapolis, hauled out for a complete refit with the Bahamas in mind.

Built from BB plans from Rudder Boat Plans.