Board Boat Cruising Stories and Links
Michael Blackburn Crosses 117 mile Bass Strait in Laser
For the full story [click here]

Sunfish (Phantom) Races in Watertribe Ultra Marathon 2005:
The Everglades Challenge is a 300 mile long excursion race along the gulf coast of Florida with a concurent race of 67 miles to only checkpoint one which is called the Ultra Marathon. The race is often regarded as the pinnacle of all small boat excursion races. Most of the entrants use kayaks & canoes with various sailing rigs, but ironically the very first race was won using a Laser Expedition. Larry Melat highly modified his Phantom to run in the 2005 race, for the full story [click here]


Board Boat Cruising - article from SBJ
This is a great story where Jeremy Barnard and James Meadows sailed a pair of Phantoms (similar to sunfish) from from Louisana to Maine. They beach cruised most of the way sleeping in tents on the shore.
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Cruising Sunfish in SBJ
There is a neat SBJ article about cruising in a sunfish.


Sunfish Bible
In the book "The Sunfish Bible", there is a short 3 page article that described how this guy would beach cruise in his sunfish.


Palacios Raid
In the first Palacios Beach Raid, where I cruised in a Holder 12, and John Cody cruised in a Hobie Monocat 12.

Dinghy Cruising Associations:
Laser Cruising Association
Dinghy Cruising Asso

Board Boat Guide
all the board boats I know of


The ultimate book is Beachcruising and Coastal Camping by: by Ida Little, Michael Walsh ISBN: 0918752159
This book is a classic, the authors (a man and woman) sail to the Bahamas and other locations and camp along beaches. They use various small boats, one of them is a Hobie catamaran towing a canoe with their gear.


US Coast Guard Returns my boat
See the thank-you letter I wrote to SailingTexas.com

*** Articles about beach cruising seem to be hard to find. If you know of one on the net, could you send me the link so I can post it here? Thanks.