We realized that we have been running this blog for over four years now. This is the second iteration of it,as of last Winter,so our analytics are incomplete. It is the case for the last several months,however,–and we promise that it has basically always been the case –that one of our first posts,on the Wayfarer Dinghy,is the most popular on the whole blog. Specifically,we called out the poor decision on the part of designer Ian Proctor’s descendants and the various Wayfarer Dinghy associations to not publish plans for the Wayfarer so they could be built at home.

We find it interesting that this post has had such legs and dare to think that it might mean that we are not alone in searching for the plans. Want more evidence,over the same period (3/14/09 to 12/14/09),one of the top search terms that brought visitors here was “wayfarer dinghy plans.”We think there is unmet desire here and it is time to publish the plans. Again,we are all for fair one-design racing,and we also think that issues raised by home-built boats in this context could be mitigated (e.g.,validation by the association at the owner’s expense). We just don’t find the reasons for holding back compelling.