Steve Rankin's Bu'kwiis
On Friday Oct 29th, Steve Rankin and Mary Anderson passed through Santa Cruz CA
on their way to Mexico, aboard Steve's Gazelle Bu'kwiis (junk cat ketch). Steve and
Mary were kind enough to allow me to poke around their boat and take photographs
for my own education and for the benefit of other members of the junkrig
mailing list -- we have all been very curious about Steve's extensive refit
and re-rig of this boat. So, here are the pictures!
Bu'kwiis
- Wandering About On Deck
- Various details that caught my eye.
- Masts and Sails
- Pictures specifically of the masts, partners, and sail bundles.
- The Amazing Bimini
- Bu'kwiis has an ambitious enclosed bimini (a "greenhouse") aft.
- Davits
- The davits are very interesting and well worth studying.
- WindVane Self Steering Gear
- Bu'kwiis has a Brent Swain-design windvane self-steering gear (pendulum
action) with a couple of innovations by Steve.
- PilotHouse
- Shots of the pilothouse interior.
- Accommodations
- Below decks, comfortable and spacious accommodations.
- Stowage
- A few glimpses into the messy bits inside lockers and under counters.
- Systems
- Some plumbing, wiring, bilges, etc.
- Departure
- To get a better idea of the boat as a whole and of the rigging, here
are some larger, high-resolution pics of Bu'kwiis on her way to Monterey,
leaving Santa Cruz on a fine (dead calm) Saturday morning. Warning,
some of these images are very large.
I'd like to thank Steve and Mary very much for allowing a nosy stranger to
invade their boat and monopolise most of their day in port. It was very
good of them.