Flicka Friends
Articles from the newsletter
24 stories from 6 issues of Flicka Friends, written by Flicka owners between 1995 and 2020 and now on the site in full with their original photographs. More are added as each issue is transcribed. For everything else, browse the complete issue archive.
Trailering & launching
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2003
Delivery of a New Trailer — Tuning the Setup
The plan was to lower the mast of the BEN MAIN, Jr, load the Flicka on the new trailer, winterize the engine and head off for dinner. We expected…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2003
Building a Cradle for Your Flicka
When we were looking for a trailer to carry s/y Happy Little Girls 2, I'm sure like most, we first started looking at normal boat trailers. We found…
Rik Sandberg
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Flicka Friends · Winter 2014
Cribbing and Boat Stands
After the trip to the San Juan Islands in Washington State in October 2012 to buy my Flicka, I needed a place for storage. The previous owner used…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Winter 2014
Flicka Factory Cradle
Flickas were shipped from the Pacific Seacraft factory in California using a wood cradle. The photo above shows one of these cradles in use. There is…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Winter 2014
Hauling A Flicka
While many of the previous articles in Flicka Friends have been about launching and recovering a Flicka with a trailer, this issue includes…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Winter 2014
HEART of GOLD’s Cradle
While researching cradles for the Flicka, I discovered a Flicka cradle built in Australia by Richard Lawless’s father. It was simple and appeared to…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2003
Tom's New Triad Trailer
After researching the trailer market, Tom Grimes decided to purchase a new Triad trailer to fit his Pacific Seacraft Flicka BEN MAIN, Jr. Initially,…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2003
Trailer Recommendations
I purchased my trailer last year in basically "junk yard" condition then had it completely rebuilt. I paid $800 for the trailer and spent around…
Lee Crockett
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2003
Getting the Mast Down
The new Triad trailer was in the parking lot and the only thing remaining was lowering the mast. Dick Shepherd was the second owner of this Flicka…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Winter 2014
A Jowi Cradle for ZANZIBAR
When Randy Richardson purchased his Flicka, he needed to get the sailboat back from Maine. A local boat service was hired to make the trip to Maine…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2003
HOTSPUR's Trail-Rite Trailer
I have a Trail-Rite trailer for my 1989 Flicka “Hotspur.” I believe it is original to the boat. It has bunks (instead of pads), keel guides, dual…
Eric Jungemann
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Flicka Friends · Winter 2014
Shopping For A Cradle
There are a number of places to find boat cradles. A number of companies built them in a variety of styles. Any internet search will likely come up…
Flicka Friends
Engines
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Flicka Friends · Summer 1998
Engines, Schedules and Plans
“Let's sail to Bermuda” “Oh, OK.” replied my wife and shipmate. With those simple statements, the pilot charts for the Atlantic were dusted off and…
Rod Bruckdorfer
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Flicka Friends · Summer 2001
Inboard or Outboard?
One of the fundamental decisions when buying a Flicka is engine choice. A number of comments from various sources have been gathered here. One Flicka…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2003
Flicka Towing Advice
We tow our Flicka with a 1-ton Chevy, dual back wheel truck, with a huge engine (7.4 liters)---and, needless to say, we feel well-powered and stable.…
Mal Misuraca
Rig & sails
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2000
Flicka Profile: BEN MAIN, Jr
Since 1985, Richard Shepperd has been sailing BEN MAIN, Jr. (Pacific Seacraft Flicka # 315) out of Sutton’s Bay Marina in Traverse Bay (Lake…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Summer 1998
Bristol Boats
Pity we "puddle sailors". Tides don't breast us. Currents don't set us. We don't heave to swells nor count the rollers. The only rogue waves we…
Bill Strop
Passages & cruising
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Flicka Friends · Summer 1998
s/v SELECTED RISKS, Voyage of a Pocket Battleship
After 260 days of exposure to the elements in a 19 foot open boat, you would think that I would have chosen the easy life. Every man has a right to…
Anthony Steward
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Flicka Friends · Spring 2001
Flicka Performance Under Sail
When people ask, “How well does a Flicka sail?”, there are two common replies. “A Flicka can sail faster than 6 knots” and “They can not sail out of…
Rod Bruckdorfer
Projects & improvements
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2000
Installing Radar on s/v HOTSPUR, # 386
I sail s/v HOTSPUR (Flicka #386, formerly “SENIOR FROG”) on San Francisco Bay. I have done a fair amount of short-handed sailing (Single-handed…
Eric Jungemann
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Flicka Friends · Fall 2000
One Way to Get a Flicka, Start with the Hull
My dad built a small plywood sailboat when I was a toddler and I grew up on ever larger sailboats since then. At about the age of 17, I decided to…
Dave Kenyon
Interior & systems
More from the newsletter
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Flicka Friends · Winter 2014
Lifting A Flicka
If the boat yard is unfamiliar with the Flicka, you need to let the lift operator know about where to place the slings. The placement of the straps…
Tom Davison
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Flicka Friends · Summer 2001
Newsletter or "E-Zine"
Recently, I began converting the Flicka Friends files (Microsoft Publisher) into Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Hopefully, all of the back issues can be…
Tom Davison
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