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Blue water sailing, Cape Dory sailboat, engine free sailing, Engineless Sailing, Lin and Larry Pardey, sailboat restoration, sculling a displacement sailboat, Sculling oar

During the six year rebuild of the Far Reach I decided to remove and sell the original Perkins 4-108 50 hp diesel engine (you can read more about the decision process to ditch the engine here). We initially relied on a sculling oar to propel and maneuver the boat for the first year after the launch which included 3,500nm of sailing and a voyage to the Virgin Islands and back to North Carolina.
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