Roger & Kathy Strube's Stuff






	Roger Strube MD / Roger H Strube MD

Welcome to Roger & Kathy Strube's Web site. Thanks for dropping in and spending some time.

If you have found this site because you are interested in purchasing my Ocean Catamaran 48.8 (Millennium Dragon) please click here.

THE PRICE HAS BEEN REDUCED !!

Kathy and I live in Punta Gorda Isles Florida at the top of Charlotte Harbor where we are able to enjoy our favorite outdoor activities year round. We belong to the Punta Gorda Sailing Club. She loves her garden and we both spend a great deal of time on the water. We have been sailing together almost 50 years and as time has passed our boating interests have evolved. After 30 years of sailing slow, water pressing, rib bruising monomarans, we have spent the last 15 in the pursuit of the ideal cruising multihull vessel and accouterments. This is not a “how to” or an equipment recommendation site. If you want sound advise subscribe to Practical Sailor and read the universally known and respected technical authors of our sailing fraternity. The West Marine Catalogue has more advice than most of us well ever need. This site is about my interest in some of the more esoteric and some would say fringe developments in our floating world. Simple and uncomplicated is preferred by some people but I am not interested in substituting the old wooden bucket for my pair of Raritan PHII Heads. My 49 foot cruising catamaran Millennium Dragon is rigged for long distance single or short handed sailing with every cruising convenience including a washer/dryer, water maker, generator, four burner stove/oven, 12.5 cubic foot refrigerator/freezer and a microwave. It even has a full size deep kitchen sink.

I am interested in developing those innovations that will extend our ability to comfortably, safely and with ease continue our water sports as we age and/or become disabled. My present interests are small rigid wing sails on small trimarans for use by elderly and/or disabled sailors to minimize the effort and maximize the safety of small boat sailing and racing. Two of the boats I have built are pictured above.


	I have completed building the idea (for me) dingy as what I wanted was not available commercially. As the design and building progressed the vessel evolved from a “dingy” to a “tender” to a “launch” and some might now consider it a “run about”. This is not a Port-a-Bote but more of a Family Dinkster.

Hopefully the future will hold the development of a wing and diesel (or electric?) powered motor sailor that will look more like a Star Wars transporter than a Nat Herreshoff classic. Don’t get me wrong. I respect ol’ Captain Natty as much as I do the Wright Brothers but technology has advanced significantly in 100 years. I do enjoy looking at old wooden boats from a distance as long as I don’t have to sail or repair one. I am speaking from experience. Our first boat (see 1970 picture to left) was a 1929 Herreshoff designed 52 foot universal “Q” Class that we repaired, sailed, refinished, raced, repaired, refinished and cruised on Lake Michigan from 1968 to 1975. The picture shows Mark at 2 y/o, giving orders to me, my wife Kathy and his older sister, 3 y/o Jill. Mark- [B is now a professional sailor. After his employment by the Swedish Victory Challenge Team as the “Starboard Grinder” he has returned to racing professionally. He has been on other America’s Cup Teams during the last two campaigns and holds a high position in the world rankings in the Star fleet.

Jill is an adjunct professor at theUniversity of Texas<at Austin managing projects and PhD students. She and her spouse Sam Blasco live in Smithville, Texas. Our grand baby (tottler) was born August 9, 2006 so we seem to be spending more time in Texas. Sam teaches woodworking seminars for Mini Max and sells their large woodworking power tools out of his shop/studio in down town Smithville. If you are interested in attending a woodworking seminar in Smithville, contact Sam through Mini Max or his web site. There are several B&Bs in town that Sam can recommend. If you visit the Mini Max site you may click on tool demonstrations by Sam Blasco on the right side of the home page. I purchased the MM16 Band Saw and have been very happy with it. Sam builds exquisite custom furniture to order in his studio. His work may be reviewed on the web site Jill built for him: www.samantics2.com

Questa is doing charters at Averill’s Flathead Lake Lodge in Bigfork Montana. To learn more about the “Q” Class go to Cotton Blossom, now owned by Dennis Connor.

If you are still interested, click on.

Feel free to browse around my site. If you have comments or questions please drop me a line at wingsailorflorida@yahoo.com.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy your stay.

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