- This is my classic photo of Clipper Mac which ususally hangs wherever I have an office. The photo was taken from my other boat, Solution, off Kirkland on Lake Washington.
A guy comes into the camera store I was managing and wants to buy a Hasselblad camera system but first he must sell his sailboat. I want to own sailboat so I ask him, “how big is it?” The guy responds, “21 feet”. So I go sailing on Puget Sound with the guy and I buy his sailboat from him. The next day, the guy buys the camera system from our store. I ask, “Is the check good?” He responds, “Was your check good?” Both deals were done. So I now own a sailboat. We named her “Clipper Mac”, because she is a Clipper Marine 21-foot sloop with “McKibben” sails (now defunct).
She was a truly fine boat.
J.R. Hudson
See “Rare and Fantastic Sail” aboard the Clipper Mac.
November 14 at 4:58am Reply• Report
I do remember sailing with you in the mid seventy’s with Dave Bradley we sailed out of gig harbor spent a great day doing what we did in that time period my first experence on hanging out as we tacked fishing with lunch meat and stopping at the Tides great day great memories. Thanks Jim
Thank you for the info on the CM21. I found one. in beautiful shape this summer aqnd decided to get it for lake sailing. I had it out on Siltcoos Lake (Near Florence, Oregon) just once before bringing her home to Roseburg. With just the mainsail, she made over 4.5 mph (Garmin GPS). I suspect she willbe even faster than the San Juan 21 I had in the ’80′s.
One of my fondest memories about single-handling Clipper Mac was when heading north on a strong southerly (the normal off-season prevailing wind) and I placed her on wing-wing. I felt the urge to do something fun out of boredom. I left her by climbing into the sport-yak dinghy and let her tow me like a water skiier. I reversed the tiller so that it pointed aft, and extended the hiking stick. In this fashion I continued to control the helm. What a blast!!!!!!