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Location: Western Montana, USA
Skerry Name: "Bonnie Dune"
Build Start Date: Fall 2003 ?
Launch Date: Spring 2004
Specifics: CLC Skerry kit with modified Sailrite sail kit and floorboards based on plans from Steven Roberts
Modifications/Customizations: Aft floorboards become thwart-level sleeping platform
Shortened mast
Lengthened steering extension
Athwartships through-bow painter eye
Boomless sail
Modified sheeting
Three-part snotter
All blocks have rope stropped wooden sheaves
Single reef line
Brailing line to quickly set and furl sail
Modified steering linkage
Lead weighted daggerboard
Daggerboard trunk narrowed by about 3/16 inch
Strengthened mast partner doubler
Seat edge slots for lashing gear
Seat edge slots for lashing gear
Inflatable flotation bags under center thwart
Trailering cover