Daysailer King Fisher III 12ft SAILBOAT SAILING DINGHY LI NY

http://sites.google.com/site/thekingfishersailboat/
This is the first chapter of our little day sailer; recently bought on eBay. This film was taken the day I brought it home after purchasing it in Southold, New York. We live very close to Bellport Bay on Long Island. It is very shallow here, and we cannot have a boat with a large keel (ours has a swing keel). This boat also easily becomes a little motor boat, as you will see in my next video, cruising around our bay with a classic 1973 Johnson 4 hp 2 stroke motor. At the time of this video, new sails are being made at Doyle Sails in Huntington, NY. Through researching, I found that Philip L. Rhodes was the original designer of this boat in 1960 an the original builder was Atlantic Fiberglass , although this version was built by American Fiberglass Corp. in February of 1974. His 12 Meter Weatherly won the America's Cup in 1962. David Stanton of American Sails, SC was also very helpful in providing information about this boat. I am hoping to deal with him soon for more parts for this classic sail boat. If you have any information you may be able to share or photographs or your own American Kingfisher III, that would be greatly appreciated. You may contact me at cdalego@aol.com. I hope by posting this I may inspire other King Fisher III owners to write about or film their boats as well. There is not much information to be found online at this point in time -- they are almost forgotten about.
Oday Widgeon is very close to this design
look for us sailing out on the great South Bay of Long Island to Davis Park Fire Island or camping at Smith Point a Suffolk County Park campground
HAPPY SAILS TO YOU... until we meet again.
hope you enjoyed our little movie with the boat with a pirates flag jolly roger

American Sails are a great resource for parts for this and many other boats
visit there site for sailboats and parts
http://www.americansail.com/

this sailboat A.K.A as a Fractional Sloop The Mainsail goes to the top of the mast, but the Jib stops short of the top of the mast.
HANG ON SLOOPY HANG ON!!!
for more info go to

http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/kingfisher.htm
and http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/rhodes.htm

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[teenmod12]

I just brought mine home today and I'll be fixing mine this winter... hopefully. Cant wait to watch the rest of your vids. I live on Church Lane in Aquebogue btw

[cdalego]

@teenmod12 Very cool you will enjoy this Boat

[punkfunkubus]

I have a 15 foot American Discoverer with the same hull shape but just a bit bigger. I'll be restoring her too.

[cdalego]

@punkfunkubus We have had lots of fun with this boat I'm sure you will too

[mattt6511]

hey how are you doing i follow all your videos of your 22 courageous cat  i have a hunter 25.5 and am buying a daysailer that looks the EXACT same as yours just a different color hull, my question is can you fit two people in this or is that pushing it? Also the one im buying has a 4hp and i think thats a waste some i removing it, you can paddle something this size till the sails are up without a problem right? Thanks!!!!

[cdalego]

@mattt6511 there are kingfishers that were made by company named Atlantic that are pistachio green color

I'm a pretty big guy me and my wife where fine in it this came with 4 HP motor it was fine 73 Johnson weed less also I have kingfisher site on line and facebook too

[safeway56]

Why am I thinking Clark Griswald ?

[cdalego]

@HondosPlace Thanks

hope you check out the webpage and seen what it looks like fixed up and with new sails

[HondosPlace]

I caught this by accident while looking for wooden boat videos..

Nice wholesome and humorous video :-) This is like watching someone bring home a puppy for the first time, for their kids -- ha ha ha . It made me smile. Thanks for posting it.

[cdalego]

@jezcol I beg to differ

the new sails I have make this thing fly