Chesapeake Skies

The blue skies of the Chesapeake Bay becon. These are the waters being explored in the 2005 season by the Caroline and her crew.

 

Welcome to the World of the Sailing Vessel Caroline

The Caroline is a 2003 model 19 foot West Wight Potter Sailboat hailing from Mathews, Virginia USA.  The Caroline has a dark blue hull with white decking, and her sails are striped blue and white. She sails the waters of the Piankatank River and the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.

 

No photos of the Caroline are available yet, but we hope to take a few this season and add them to this site. Until then, we have included some photos of her sister vessels. The photo to the far right looks very similar to the Caroline.

 

 

As you can see, the West Wight Potter is a great family boat.

 

Caroline Includes Great Features for Sailing the Chesapeake :

West Wight Potters like the Caroline were originally designed to sail in the shallow waters around England's Isle of Wight. Drawing only 8" with the daggerboard up and with a flush, beachable bottom, she can go almost anywhere, including places that deep-draft sailors can only dream about. Other great features include:

  • Large cabin that can sleep 4 comfortably (no, that's not a typo)
  • Cooktop, a sink with a fresh water fawcet, and a port-a-potty
  • Roomy, self bailing cockpit with a kick-up beaching rudder
  • Reliable Honda 5 HP 4-cycle outboard.

 

 

Sail Away ...

 
Have you ever wanted to just get on a boat and sail away? I mean, really sail away. Just keep going, with no return schedule, no where you have to be two weeks from Thursday. Just to go. And go. 'I wonder what's in that cove?' you think, or 'Let's visit that town over there.' The world is a completely different place when you actually stop to notice it. Caroline is all about noticing. And being.

 

The Links :

 

Below is a link to the links page from the "Potter Yachters" website, a dedicated group of WWP owners in the Pacific Northwest. There are Potter clubs all over the U.S. and worldwide.

 

Potter Yachters Link Page

 

 

  

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