Windance was a 51-foot sloop that Trumbly designed as his retirement project. He had always wanted to do a cold-molded hull, and this was his chance. He sold Osage in fall 1977 to pay for materials for Windance. In 1978 he prepared parts of the backbone in the Bates shop. This might seem like a misuse of public school facilities for a personal project, but in fact, Trumbly involved students in whatever he did related to Windance at Bates. It simply provided another learning opportunity for students, and was essentially no different from students building their own boats in the shop. In summer 1978, the whole class set up the keel for Windance in front of Trumbly’s home on Raft Island. By November 1978, Trumbly had the complete backbone and frame molds set up and an open shed erected over the vessel. The same month, he bored the propeller shaft hole, and the class was there to observe. Early in 1979, Trumbly hired Patrick Chapman and me to rip a large stack of Port Orford cedar into strips for cold molding, and to run the strips through the planer; we did this work in the Batres shop after school. It was heartbreaking work in a way, turning at least 1/4 of that stack of beautiful cedar to sawdust. This section includes photos of the early phase of the construction of Windance from spring-summer 1978 to March 1979. After his retirement in 1979, it took Trumbly another 9 years to complete the boat; it was launched in summer 1988 and, after rigging, underwent sea trials in summer 1989.