tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82486106409643343212024-03-05T14:33:24.282+02:00SA Yacht BlogReviews of popular yachts in South African waters. These are all good boats in their own way.justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-83720148876320829302021-06-22T11:54:00.001+02:002021-06-22T11:54:06.873+02:00Updates on Tara, the Sad Story<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Tom Murray has added some quite fascinating material and background on SV Tara, and Noel Redfern's previous yacht, SV Coimbra. Coimbra was something of a legend in SA yachting circles in those days and has an equally dramatic story to go with her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Many thanks to Tom for some amazing research on this all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://sayachts.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-sad-story-of-tara.html">Jump to the post on SV Tara</a>.</span></p>justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-58064355766738341582020-04-26T13:00:00.001+02:002023-01-22T16:51:41.119+02:00The Voyage of Delaney<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Attached below you will find a beautiful and well written account of the "Voyage of Delaney". Delaney was a Flamenca (25' Berckemeyer design, reviewed previously in this blog). The owners and crew were Richard and Jill Webb. The story starts in 1974, set primarily South Africa and Mocambique. It's a great tale of big dreams and small boats, about young people, and a great sense of adventure. And it's not fiction - this is Richard and Jill's own account of the whole adventure.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I thoroughly enjoyed this one, having owned an identical Flamenca, also built by Henry Vink. They are tough and seaworthy little boats but any sea voyage in a 25 footer is a proper adventure. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Read it <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/tf4yynfo9obl5l1/The%20Voyage%20of%20Delaney%20-Final%20compilation%20all%20work%5B26628%5D.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">here</a>. It will open in Dropbox as a PDF - from where you can read it directly, or download a copy. (best to close the Dropbox sidebars etc, but it works fine)</span><br />
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justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-90109859202709902382016-04-05T10:22:00.000+02:002016-04-05T10:33:23.377+02:00Stadt 34<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Design 391 from <a href="http://www.stadtdesign.com/designs/stock_plans_sail/van_de_stadt_34/">Stadt Design</a> is dated 1981 on their website. It carries much of the DNA of the Stadt range until then - good sea boats, modern underbodies, simple sloop rigs, relatively narrow, and quite conventional. Accommodation is much improved over many previous Stadt designs such as RCODs, Doggers etc. This design was drawn without undue consideration for the various rating systems that often compromise good sea boats, as were most Stadts in fact. Nor is it a charter boat. It is a good fast sea boat, suitable for offshore racing or cruising.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stadt Design claim this was their first design "where the computer played the title role". As such it is a very well proportioned boat, conventional and moderate, but very well optimised. It's the kind of boat where you can't really think of anything to change. The design allows for various materials - steel, aluminium, or GRP hulls - home built (multi-chine), or otherwise. It offers either a racing rig (fractional), or a cruising rig with masthead Genoa. The underside shows a fin keel and generous spade rudder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The majority of the Stadt 34s around Cape Town are steel (multi-chine) or GRP. Their club handicaps range from 0.94 to 0.98 (depending on rig and hull material), and are much faster than one would expect, especially when the wind is up. As a testament to their sailing performance, two Stadt 34s finished 2nd and 3rd in the recent Governors Cup Race (2013). The winner was also a Stadt (RCOD). Now admittedly this was on corrected time, but if memory serves the first two on handicap were also first over the line, and the first Stadt 34 beat a well campaigned Farr 38/40... Perhaps a bit exceptional due to tactics and the misfortune of some other entrants, but it does show these boats are no slouches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In South Africa, the best 34s to chose from include the DiDi 34, and the L34 covered elsewhere in this blog. They are all excellent boats, and many buyers would chose on price and availability. The DiDi 34 is the latest design, and the fastest of the three by some margin. There are not many available yet but they are available as a very nice kit in ply-epoxy for home building. The L34 is likely the most popular as a production boat in GRP, and a good fast all-rounder. A cruising version also exists as the Holiday 34. These are fast and seaworthy and also great all-rounders. The Stadt 34 is an older design but still very contemporary, and some very recent builds available. Often built in steel, it is often the choice of serious cruisers and is a very good sea boat. The RCYC club handicaps (showing the highest) for these three are as follows: DiDi 34 at 1.025, L34 at 1.015, and the Stadt 34 at 0.98. Bear in mind that the steel Stadts are significantly heavier and have the shortest waterlines. Spoilt for choice....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Alu and Wood versions have similar weights and ballast ratios to the L34, although a bit more than the Didi 34. I suspect the GRP versions will be similar to the Wood and Alu as well. For racing and upwind sailing this would be useful, while for cruising and downwind sailing steel will be fine.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heads with option for shower. Full chart Table.Engine under the steps (good and bad!)<br />Nice sized saloon. Note the shoal draft keel option.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Small secure cockpit, nice for shorthanding.<br />Simple tiller steering.<br />Well served by an elegant canvas dodger.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Definitely worth a look if you find a good one. At time of writing this one looks very tempting on <a href="http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-yachts-sailboats/other/34-steel-vd-stadt/1001493962260910008235409">Gumtree</a>, as does <a href="http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-yachts-sailboats/muizenberg/34-feet-van-de-stadt-grp/1001595010290910411628209">this one</a>!</span><br />
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justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-42753319215798031952016-02-18T11:31:00.002+02:002016-02-28T11:52:25.533+02:00Holiday 23<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Extraordinarily spacious "liveaboard" interior.<br />Well thought out galley, with two-burner plus icebox.<br />Standing headroom (nearly).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Holiday 23 is really something of a small miracle. Full live-aboard space, standing headroom, shoal draft, easily trailerable with a decent car, good looks, capable coastal sailboat, and quite affordable, all at once. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brilliantly conceived (<a href="http://www.holiday23.co.za/Jerrold%20Salamon.htm" target="_blank">Jerrold Salomon</a>), brilliantly designed (<a href="http://www.lavranosyachtdesign.co.nz/" target="_blank">Angelo Lavranos</a>), and very well built (<a href="http://www.robertsonandcaine.com/pages/leopard40.html" target="_blank">John Robertson</a>). The link on "Jerrold Salomon" is a good read and directs to the H23 Class Association website. A huge amount of thought went into this concept and design, and it shows in the product. The design brief went something like this:</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The average person must be able almost stand up straight in the boat</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Proper Bellamy mast and boom</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">North Sails</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heads</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Storage space for a cooler box</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Price at that of an average family car</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Building of the first H23 started in 1983. By 1991, 189 had been produced, and the class is still very active in various parts of South Africa, including the Gariep Dam (Vaal), Hartebeespoort Dam, Langebaan, Port Owen, Theewaterskloof, Knysna, Richards Bay etc. Quite a few can be spotted in False Bay and Table Bay on occasion. They tend to move around quite a bit - being easily trailerable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sailing performance is surprisingly good in lighter and moderate conditions. They handle well and are easy to sail. In fresh conditions they want to be well reefed with crew on the rail, but will still "get you home" without much trouble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A common question about small boats is what kind of passage they would be good for? This all depends on who you ask! <a href="http://dixdesign.com/steward.htm">Anthony Steward</a> (who circumnavigated in a 19' open boat) tends to answer this differently from normal people, but in truth it depends largely on the skipper. Having said that, The Holiday 23 would be regarded as a bit light for true offshore passages, or the Cape South Coast, but I would say quite suitable for short coastal hops from say False Bay to Langebaan in reasonable conditions. The size and ballast ratios etc make it ideal for estuaries and bays, with occasional coastal passages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The H23 package is a very broad offering. Besides being a nice sailing boat, it is a practical weekend getaway to many folk. Being trailerable, it can serve as a caravan en-route, and makes a great holiday toy (reverse pun?!). Being able to remove the boat from the water for maintenance and storage is also a great plus, and saves unwanted marina bills and lifting charges normal for other keel boats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For me, the most outstanding feature of the H23 is just how liveable it really is. It's hard to explain unless you go inside one - the neatly moulded interior is very pleasant, spacious and comfortable. You really have everything you need in a minimalist sort of way. For a couple, this would be a very good option in areas with decent waterways, and the shoal draft and demountable rig would make it very suitable for river or canal cruising too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Used H23s often come on the market in SA between R100-200k, and are generally in sound condition. Very little osmosis recorded on these hulls due mostly to good build quality, plus they have often spent time out of the water. A bit of easy maintenance will usually get them well serviceable again, and the outboard makes it so much easier too.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beam 2.5m</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Draft (keel down) 1.65m (keel up) 0.5m</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Displacement 1300 kg</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ballast 373 kg (iron)</span></li>
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justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-733313855270350252016-02-09T10:19:00.000+02:002016-11-18T08:23:08.351+02:00Lello 34<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Very traditional, long-keeled sloop, with beautiful lines, Designed by Bryan Lello in about 1966, in South Africa. It was evidently intended for the first Cape to Rio Race in 1971. They were (mostly) built by Henry Vink in Walkerville on the Vaal Dam in South Africa, and very solidly built at that. Both Bryan Lello and Henry Vink are now deceased for some years, and regrettably we don't have much detailed information on the design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These Lello 34s proved themselves as very solid seaworthy racers, with a number of racing achievements at the time. They were well capable in the very challenging waters on South African South coast. I personally recall the harrowing tales told by two crew (one being an uncle of mine) on a trip from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth - with the late Bobby Bongers - if memory serves. Much of it was upwind....It seems that the boat took it all in it's stride, but the three of them took a few days before they could walk properly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although the Lello 34 was a great example of this class of boat - simple long-keel vessel with a simple but modern sloop rig - it would be unfair to compare it with the modern designs we see today. Still - it is very interesting exercise! Looking at say the L34, or Didi 34, the approach has changed fundamentally - these have spade rudders, relatively flat underbodies, bulb keels, high reserve stability, taller rigs, and displace about 60% of the Lello 34. Naturally they are significantly faster on all points of sail. Personally, I think the evolution was driven largely by a combination of modern materials and the contribution of new designs from van der Stadt with the <a href="http://sayachts.blogspot.co.za/2011/01/rcod.html" target="_blank">RCODs</a> and similar. However, if I were faced with a passage across the Southern Ocean I wouldn't be disappointed if I was forced to take the Lello.... for all its aged design, this is a true "get you home boat" and a long keel does a good job of looking after you when it gets really tough. Also a very seakindly design, if you don't mind getting a bit wet and hobby-horsing on occasion. One would expect this design to track reasonably well with the long keel, but I do wonder if that rudder is adequate for downwind control, especially with the long boom... I suppose it will all come down to reefing strategies, and favoring the large Genoa as the dominant sail in strong winds. Having said that, I haven't sailed on a Lello 34 personally, so I can't comment on the handling and speed from experience. If you can add to this, I would be glad to include it here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now as it happens, this era of sailing is being revived again, in the form of the <a href="http://mcintyreadventure.com/goldengloberace/" target="_blank">2018 Golden Globe Race!!!</a> Essentially, it's a re-enactment of the first one in 1968. Personally, I look forward to following this race more than any other event I can imagine, America's Cup included. The race is by invitation only, but already around 30 confirmed entrants. The rules specify yachts of 32-36 feet, long keels, and rudders attached to the back of the keel. Technology is limited to what was available to Sir Robin in 1968 - which means almost no electronics besides a VHF and an SSB radio. Details on the link above. Remember this is a non-stop singlehanded circumnavigation from Falmouth-Falmouth. The routing instructions are quite simple:</span></div>
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</div><b>* Update (2)</b><br />Tom Murray has contributed some interesting further history on Noel Redfern, his previous yacht Coimbra (which has an even more interesting history), and some further records of Tara:<div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>A very interesting record of Coimbra and her crew, by way of some family tree research he did. The stories of Coimbra are truly fascinating. This is in the form of a .pdf. Read it <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0kc3b32nd11slo/Joshua%20Crosoer%20%26%20SV%20Coimbra%20%281%29.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">here</a>. (may need to click past some Dropbox prompts - it does come up without signing in to Dropbox)</li><li>A film of Coimbra (Noel Redfern's previous yacht, lost at sea at Tristan de Cunha). See it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrjvbnSee0Q" target="_blank">here</a> on Youtube.</li><li>A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZgpiaVkYn8" target="_blank">short video</a> of SV Tara arriving in Port Elizabeth.</li></ul> <b><br />* Update (1)</b> <div>Some history on the vessel Tara supplied by Linda Redfern, daughter of the original builder, now tagged on below this post.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Images of Tara before the wreck courtesy of Roy McBride of CKD Boats. See his excellent blog <a href="http://ckdboats.blogspot.co.za/2012/12/tara-traditional-boat-on-hout-bay-marina.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/george.mills.1426" target="_blank">George Mills</a>, Tara's most recent owner. Larger than life, and very humble at the same time.<br />George was a true Scot, a true sailor, happy soul, and an enthusiast of Traditional Scottish Music.<br /><b><span style="color: blue;">You just have to see this impromptu recording of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/robin.parker.564/videos/10156751494855221/" target="_blank">George in action at HBYC</a> just a few days before this accident.</span></b></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Tara's most recent owner was George Mills, a member of both Hout Bay and Royal Cape Yacht Clubs. Sadly, George perished along with Rachel Daly at approximately 3 a.m. on Monday 1 Feb 2016, when this boat was wrecked near Bokpunt on the Cape West Coast (near Yzerfontein, South Africa). We have a short tribute to him and the crew (all wonderful people and well known at HBYC) - on the <a href="http://www.hbycclub.blogspot.co.za/2016/02/rip-georgie-and-crew-tragic-loss-of-sv.html" target="_blank">club website.</a> George's death was widely reported in several UK newspapers including <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6902575/Brit-man-and-Irish-woman-die-as-their-yacht-crashes-into-rocks-in-South-Africa.html" target="_blank">The Sun</a>, <a href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/greenock-man-dies-yacht-tragedy-7290753" target="_blank">The Daily Record</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3428021/British-sailor-Irish-woman-die-yacht-smashes-rocks-South-Africa-lone-survivor-manages-swim-shore.html" target="_blank">The Daily Mail,</a> <a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/scots-sailor-dies-in-south-african-yachting-accident-1-4018553" target="_blank">The Scotman</a> as well as a number of local news agencies.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br />Yesterday, just six days after the accident, a gathering was held up at the site of the wreck, in a small bay (now called Tara Bay by those who knew George). This is a very remote and wild piece of coast, access possible only with 4x4s or similar vehicles. A number of folk arrived on horseback too from Ganzekraal.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Bill" (surname unknown to me) - manager of the Bokpunt conservation area - related the events as he recalled. Tara had wrecked at around 3 am Monday morning, in pitch darkness and heavy mist (suspected possible auto-pilot error - but investigation still in progress). PJ had scrambled ashore and found the vehicle track along this part of the shore. Fortuitously he followed it Southwards and found the (completely unlit) cottage of Bill about two kilometres further down. He (PJ) banged loudly on the door, as one would expect. An equally shaken Bill responded and together they set off back down the track to locate the wreck in the dark. The managed to spot a small section of the mast pointing upwards and so found the wreck. Bill (via his wife in Cape Town at the time) raised the alarm and a fast and well coordinated disaster plan was effected, including National Sea Rescue and all the related disaster teams. By 9 am the project was complete, save for the visit of SAMSA (SA Marine Safety Authorities), who arrived just two hours later.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I came to know of this tragedy earlier in the week, and we posted a piece in memorial in the HBYC Club website, and laid flowers in the club. I knew George personally via HBYC and had many good drinks with him. But I must confess that this memorial visit to the wreck was absolutely chilling. Besides the human aspect, seeing this beautiful yacht so completely smashed up - along with the rawness of this bleak and vicious coastline - was quite disturbing. To think it all happened in the middle of the night, with dense fog, must have been a complete nightmare.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #660000;">Some history and photos from Linda Redfern, (Amsterdamhoek, Port Elizabeth), daughter of Noel Redfern, the original builder, who (re)constructed Tara in a large garden shed at his house in Amsterdamhoek.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: #1f497d; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">She was brought out to SA
from Scotland (?) in the UK but got stuck in the tropics for about a year
before finally reaching PE due to some political dispute somewhere up north
Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: #1f497d; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">She left UK in mid-winter with the net result that her planking split,
and so my dad literally took her apart to the very last bit as can be seen in
the photographs then reassembled and re-caulked her. I remember him
having a wood steamer going for months as they bent timbers to fit. There
were lathes, band saws and god knows what all – it was a double story workshop <i>and
it was kitted out</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: #1f497d; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Let me see if I can find the documents pertaining to her arrival.
I know I have newspaper clippings…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: #1f497d; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Ok.. she arrived in PE in April 1960.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Redfern who had quite some input in the design process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: #1f497d; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">Her dimensions as follows: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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45 ft 4 in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="color: #1f497d; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;">My dad sold it to John Desmond Hein of Eston, Natal. I estimate
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</div></div>justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-49858782152286723032015-09-25T16:38:00.001+02:002016-02-09T07:00:20.046+02:00Leisure Liner Houseboat<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nicest thing about boats is that they whisk you into a different world - away from traffic, taxis, banks, politics and news. This is a world of freedom, sailing, fishing, barbecues, reading, photography or whatever. Trouble is, for most kind of boating adventures, it is a brief and limited experience because you need to return to port for some reason all too often, supplies, perhaps bad weather, or perhaps just because you are cold and miserable! This is the beauty of a houseboat, settled in a nice inland waterway, there is no need to go anywhere - you really have everything with you! Pure bliss!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the past few years, I have had the privilege of three separate holidays or excursions on the Knysna Lagoon in a Leisure Liner Houseboat - being the original Leisure Liner series 1 operated by Lightleys. All three trips were very different but extremely enjoyable - due in no small measure to the design of this boat. I well remember arriving for the first trip in the middle of winter and with a fair bit of rain. We had booked for four nights and I first thought it would be a big mistake! It wasn't. Within an hour or so of arriving we had done the skippers briefing, loaded the boat, parked the car and we were underway. Easy-peasy - nothing complicated about it at all. With evening approaching we settled off Belvidere and laid anchor. Quite a decent anchor at that - this is quite important if you want to get any sleep! The cabin was really neatly laid out with all home comforts - a decent saloon, galley, heads and separate sleeping cabin up front. The sun had set by now so out came the red wine, the Weber braai, some music and soon we settled in for supper. Then a light rain started so we rigged the canvas bimini over the aft deck and just watched the lights on the shore and the odd fish jumping. The boat had very adequate lighting - including the navigation lights obviously - and it really was quite cozy. Eventually we moved into the saloon where out came some whisky, followed by my collection of cameras, ipads, laptops, GPSs, radios etc etc. We had a full 3G signal right across the bay which was a mixed blessing because I had some work to do as well. The rain picked up and we could see it bouncing off the water right next to us. Only 200m off the shore, but what bliss. I set the anchor watch on the GPS to a radius twice the length of the Anchor rode - being tidal one tends to spin around twice a night or so. The next three days were spent exploring the lagoon, braaing, and visiting the various restaurants such as Crabs Creek, the Waterfront, Thesen's Island etc. It was also a damn nice office for a while - very relaxing place to do the odd telecon, write a report etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About the boat, at last! One of the nicest things about these craft is the size and placement of the windows. Strange to open with this but it has to be said. I am beginning to think this is one of the most important facets of practically any liveaboard boat these days - and one which could be largely improved in most cases. The Leisure Liner is fantastic in this respect. The saloon has great windows and so does the galley directly opposite. This makes it a great place to sit and survey the world should it be a bit cool outside. Even the cook and dishwasher can see the world which also helps! The sleeping cabin is superb with all round views - whether one has chosen to settle in and read a book in the afternoon sun, or see the sunrise, or simply to settle in during a day cruise in cold weather - as my ageing parents did on one day trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't spoken with Angelo about this design as yet - I don't know what the design brief was at this stage. But I would guess it would have included aspects of safety, comfort, stability at anchor, manageable by an inexperienced couple, economical to operate and maintain, fit into a standard mooring, decent aft-deck, shallow draft, transportable on a trailer for maintenance etc, cope with reasonably adverse weather in the larger estuaries, and be reasonably mobile (for a houseboat). All of which it does pretty well.... Did I mention anti-claustrophobic? Well that too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot of this is made possible only because of the choice of hull - being a nicely shaped cathedral hull. Cathedral hulls have excellent form-stability, shallow draft, good load capacity, useful internal volume, and they move easily and efficiently. It is possible to keep the weight quite low and central. Certainly this boat felt like it had pretty good reserve stability - even in a large side-on chop. A very stable platform it is and I don't recall any rolling to speak of. Buoyancy in the bow is another useful aspect and this one is high and proud, coping easily in a severe chop. All this means you can load it up with a large cabin right to the ends, on a small footprint, and still have a mobile boat. Construction would be economical relative to the capacity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cabin uses the full width of the boat, which gives it loads of internal volume and full standing headroom. To get to the bow (anchor) it is necessary to walk on the gunwales either side - but this is very easy due to the handrails on the coach roof. Once on the bow, there is a secure place to stand and handle the anchor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The coach roof is flat and accessible although I never really used it much. Nice for sunbathing on a calm day or perhaps sight-seeing... solar panels even....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This design (Leisure Liner 1) was intended to have one engine, about 22 kw (about 30 Hp), which is quite adequate for rivers and estuaries. I could imagine wanting a wee bit more on the Langebaan Lagoon if facing a fresh South Easter, perhaps 40-50 Hp, but that wouldn't be needed anywhere else. The boats I used all had single 40 Hp 2-stroke Yamahas, which did remarkably well. In practice I ran them at about 30% throttle at about 4-5 knots. This gives a pleasant and quiet ride whilst not wasting fuel. Full throttle would bring up 6-7 knots depending on load and wind etc, and a far higher fuel bill. Not necessary at all. In this age a 4-stroke would be a nice choice though. Personally I was quite happy with a single engine, having used outboards all my life without much trouble, even at sea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any criticisms? Of course it's easy to criticize a houseboat either as a boat or a house - it's actually quite a challenging design process! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One issue I recall was trying to steer this boat between the pillars under the Knysna railway bridge in a fresh crosswind. These flattish hulls do tend to yaw somewhat at slowish speeds - and one is advised to go fairly fast and concentrate. That worked fine... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manoeuvring a large flat bottomed boat like this with one engine in the tight confines of a marina is another aspect that takes a bit of getting used to, and in some cases the charter agents offer a pilot to come aboard for this. But tight marina berths are not the norm for many of these vessels and it won't usually be an issue. A bit of practice is all that's needed. One one occasion, I thought it would be neat to have an indoor steering position, although I can see how this could add unwanted cost and complexity.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Draft 0.35 m</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sleeps 6, 2 cabins</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Described as a "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">LOW WASH GRP PRODUCTION HOUSEBOAT". Designed in 1988, 90 built!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two outboards, 40 - 90 Hp - easy cruise at 10-12 knots, maxes out at 20-25+ knots with 90 Hp!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Covered aft deck</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Complies with SAMSA CAT E and D </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coastal capability in light to moderate conditions!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Improved internal layout, and slightly larger</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.leisureliner.com/saloon.html" target="_blank">Furnishing as for a luxury yacht.</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quite good value considering the package - this is a substantial vessel... pricing per the wesbite shows R 795k for the basic vessel, excl. VAT, motors, options (at Sept 2015).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Angelo Lavranos, the designer, has a website at <a href="http://www.lavranosyachtdesign.co.nz/index.htm">http://www.lavranosyachtdesign.co.nz/index.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Operates in up to 50 knots of wind - the picture above shows 40+.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After taking a good look at these traditional (Dudley Dix) designs I sometimes wonder if the current design culture of "modern" cruising yachts has completely lost the plot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, it has been a startling revelation to find these traditional steel "low-tech" Hout Bay designs are actually superior to most modern designs of high-tech sloop-type cruising boats, in respect of practically all things that matter to cruisers... Their only compromise being <i>nth-degree</i> upwind performance, for course racing etc. Or to put it another way, the obsession with upwind performance has massively compromised the design of contemporary cruising boats in all but one area - that of upwind racing, which is of course the one exact thing that doesn't really matter to cruisers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearly everything that makes a sailboat expensive has to do with upwind racing. Be it the tall multi-spreader rigs, the winches, furling systems, carbon-fibre bits, deep bulb-keels, lightweight hulls and engines - these things serve limited or zero purpose off the wind! And worse than that, they actually compromise almost every aspect of a sailboats function when not actively beating - in which case a bulb keel is a drag, a low aspect rig is better, a longish keel for tracking and stability, light bendy masts not required etc etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's not to say simple traditional rigs don't sail well upwind - they really do these days as long as they have decent keels - which the <i>old gaffers</i> seldom did unfortunately. The Hout Bay's do have decent keels - they sail very well upwind. And now I will argue they do better at everything else that matters to cruisers, commercial workboats or charter boats, at a fraction of the price!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hout Bays are all of robust steel construction. I have nothing against Ply and GRP - they have their merits - but when it comes to things that go bump in the night, tying up in fishing harbours, rafting for Panama, or the occasional grounding - steel has a definite advantage. Leave your boat in a foreign port for a few weeks while you have to go home or whatever, or on the hard during hurricane season - you sleep better with a steel boat for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The simple rigs, steel hull and generally low-tech nature make for easy maintenance that anyone can do anywhere. Everything comes from the hardware shop, not the boat shop. Given the Hout Bay 40 and 50 gaff rigs, I think they could be sourced entirely from the farmers co-op! Even the mast is a simple steel pole, with galvanised wire rigging.... Spectra, stainless steel, fancy winches not required. Homemade blocks are used and large wooden spars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These traditional rigs do very well on all points of sail, and the low aspect gaffs really do well off the wind and while reaching. But these Hout Bay's have huge load carrying capacity - for example the Hout Bay 50 is rated for 10T of load! This makes it possible to install a large simple engine and a few tons of diesel. And we all know passage-making times are often determined by the fuel available. Never mind ghosting over the ITCZ with drifters etc when you have loads of fuel and a long-life engine. Consider also bringing a boat back from say the Caribbean to South Africa. Motor straight back through the ITCZ and the South Atlantic high in about 4 weeks, or sail down via Brazil and the Southern Ocean in double that time, in rough seas and cold? Rhetorical question for most. These are excellent long-range motor-sailers. Under sail alone, the Hout Bay 50 <span style="background-color: white;">"Cape Rose", a Gaff Schooner, once covered 1200 miles in 6 days under sail, a very credible log for even a racing boat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Internal capacity of the Hout Bay's is unbeatable for their length. Big tick for liveaboard, charter or workboat. There is a<i> lot of boat </i>in the length. A Hout Bay 50 displaces almost 21T to the waterline. The hull designs are moderate and fairly deep, with fine bows, making them comfortable in a seaway. They are also amazingly stiff. Because you saved so much on the build, the furnishings below can be awesome....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The generous rudders placed well aft allow good steering under sail and in marinas. The moderate (longish) keels make for excellent tracking and stability - in many cases self-steering isn't even required. I recall reading how one of them sailed straight without auto-pilot for about ten days returning from St Helena I think. The traditional rigs offer a relatively low centre of effort, and present far less rolling and broaching opportunities than a "tallmast" outfit sailing downwind. The "Spirit of Victoria" is a Hout Bay 50 operating from the Cape Town Waterfront. It is a Gaff Schooner, and is operated by just two crew, with up to 40 passengers, in winds up to 50 knots. The other rigs will be even easier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hout Bay 30 and 33 are fine looking boats with a classic and practical look about them. Understated and elegant, they look the business. This one is a nice plain simple sloop.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hout Bay 33 in Hout Bay!<br />Very easy on the eye, it will go anywhere.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hout Bay 40 and larger are spectacular and traditional, especially the Schooner options - either the Gaff or the Marconi Staysail Schooner. You can do the Chesapeake Classic Schooner race in one of these! For some reason I am beginning to prefer these to Sloops. One has to admit, the looks of a boat are really quite important to the whole sailing experience. Nothing worse than arriving in port with an ugly slab-sided boat - people think you're an aesthetically challenged squatter. Well maybe there is one thing worse - a fancy modern tupperware - in which case you come across as a poser from Wall Street or some such thing. But arrive in a Gaff-Ketch with traditional sails and people will buy you beer (maybe even rum), whilst admiring your senses of taste, traditionalism, wisdom and wonderful seamanship. Add a pipe and a beard and you will soon be fully booked for pirate parties. Bonus - no-one will know you have a brilliant motorboat hidden below all those ropes and climbing ladders!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Various other rigs are available - including a Gaff cutter, and a Marconi Cutter, each with their own merits. Links are provided below to the detail specs of each design on Dudley's website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have already mentioned these boats sail well, motor well and are practical for all sorts of options and places. The gaff rig particularly appeals because the air-draft is quite low (Inland waterways), while the Hout Bay 40 offers the option of a shallow keel (1.3m) - European canals anyone? The gaff masts would be fairly easy to lower and stow on deck. And then of course you could go around the Horn or the North West passage too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So which does one chose from the Shearwater, the Dix 43, or the Hout Bay 40 or 50? I don't think I can afford the wine for that debate - but I reckon one could cobble together a Hout Bay 50 gaffer for about the same budget as a Shearwater 39 or a Dix 43. Just saying....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there you have it - a simple traditional boat that works better, looks better and is far cheaper than that cruise-adapted race boat you used to think was perfect. Or maybe that was me.... Anyway - there's a whole lot more to these great boats than meets the eye!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dixdesign.com/hb30.htm" target="_blank">Hout Bay 30</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also a Hout Bay 70, and 65. See <a href="http://www.dixdesign.com/">www.dixdesign.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Owner/Skipper is a Hout Bay local, who has owned the boat only a few months. He was not hurt and managed to beach the yacht without much damage on the sand - somehow clearing a good number of rocks. I am not sure what the circumstances were for this mishap but glad he is ok. The yacht - one of the older Flamenca 25s, was en route from Hout Bay to Simonstown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will be interesting to see if the hull can be refloated as there is no chance of vehicle access to this point. Fortunately we are near neap tide currently....</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nsri.org.za/2014/07/yacht-runs-aground-at-misty-cliffs/" target="_blank">NSRI Report here.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A picture is worth a thousand words! See this great one by Trevor Wilkins, taken during a recent Mykonos race. It went viral in 24 hours. Its a copyright pic but see it on Trevor's site. Nothing shows the spirit of the Pacer 27 better than <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/+TrevorWilkins/albums/5440587942087620481/5440588036066030994?banner=pwa&pid=5440588036066030994&oid=117086593120942909819" target="_blank">this pic!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As far as I know, the Pacer range of yachts was conceived by Tim Dykins, CEO of <a href="http://www.paceryachts.co.za/" target="_blank">Pacer Yachts</a>. The Pacer 27 was one of the first (Pacers), and it was intended to become a premier one-design sportsboat class in South Africa. And if I may say, it would be a good choice, if costs were no issue. A serious effort was undertaken to get the pacer 27 approved as the class of choice for SA's Lipton Cup - although this was eventually overturned in favour of retaining the L26 class of which there were far more available, far more affordable, and would benefit the cause of youth and "development" sailing better in SA until now. Probably the right call in my view, but very arguable! Certainly the Pacer is a heck of boat - a miniature Volvo 70 - and possibly could offer an aspiration to the adrenaline junkies being drawn into other sports. Its a boat that's good for sailing as a sport - it creates excitement and passion like few others. Its the perfect keelboat for dinghy sailors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact the Pacer 27 is not a crazy high-tech boat. Its a great sportsboat design in a simple and relatively affordable package. As a one-design, it can afford to be. It has all the right ratios to make it very fast and exciting - but uses an ordinary aluminium mast for example - making it more affordable, durable and accessible all at once. Single rudder. Single spreader. Lifting deep bulb keel. Light and easily trailerable. Large cockpit for great racing. Small but useful cabin for occasional sleepovers. Modern high performance looks. Good build quality. Mega grin factor! For sailors, this is a Lotus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a boat that will offer a hugely engaging experience for a few hours, then spit you out with a good few hours bar talk and some incredible memories. I think its ideal for club racing. The large cockpit makes for good team racing, and the broad beam / light displacement ratio rewards the efforts of an active crew. Ideally a young, agile and captive crew with good wetsuits who understand the m.o.b. drill quite well.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generally, these boats handle extremely well with no significant vices. The rudder is sensitive and responsive except for extreme angles of heel. Controls and lines are very ergonomic and easy to use. Sailing upwind, one does need to use crew weight as effectively as possible and try and keep the hull fairly level. Downwind - these hulls really excel and can hold full control at extreme speeds - even at 20 knots - although this does take some concentration!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So whats the catch? If I may use the analogy of the Lotus again, this is a specialised vehicle. It's not an offshore racer. Fine for Mykonos, but not Governors cup or Rio. Great for club racing. Is it better than a skiff or a Fireball for the adrenaline junkies? Yes if you want to race on the sea - for those involved in the keelboat club-racing scene - its a damn good option! For protected waters it may be overkill vs a good dinghy. But as a high-performance trainer for seagoing adrenaline junkies, its hard to beat. Its a very manageable trailer-sailor too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have sailed regularly against Pacer 27s - in the HBYC club races, as well as several local regattas. They really offer a lot as a class. Perhaps bit stickier than one may expect in light airs, and a bit of a handful in winds over 25 knots (upwind!), they still represent a great concept as a one-design class in SA. I expect this class to grow and continue to do well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See the write-up at Pacer yachts <a href="http://www.paceryachts.co.za/view_boat.php?id=1275396807" target="_blank">here</a> - this includes technical specs etc. Design by Simonis-Voogd.</span>justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-64653761328556447722014-06-16T19:19:00.002+02:002014-06-30T08:43:39.813+02:00Guest Posting: Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology<div class="MsoNormal">
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justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-55811583795070041612014-06-07T09:11:00.001+02:002016-02-28T11:49:02.786+02:00Argie 15<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have always admired the Argie 15 - its absolutely beautiful to look at, besides being very versatile and practical. However it wasn't until my friend Nick decided to build one that it really struck me what an amazing boat this is. On first sight - it seemed a lot larger than I had expected and far more beautiful as well. It is after all a hard-chine stitch and glue boat. It has very traditional lines - and the spacious cockpit and high gunwales give it all the sea-cred of a commercial lobster boat. Ample seating and storage - all with a very robust look about it. It looks like more than a dinghy - it really shouts day-sailer or camp-cruiser.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Short <a href="http://youtu.be/gNFx8FHGiww" target="_blank">Video Clip</a> of the maiden voyage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then come the surprising bits! This boat is amazingly light! Despite its ample size, the 15' hull weighs only 60 Kgs (light weight), compared with say a Sonnet (14'3) at 70 kgs. The Argie 15 is a much more substantial hull than the Sonnet and also more robust - thanks to its frameless stitch-and-glue construction. The other surprising part is how fast it is! Well I suppose it shouldn't be that surprising as it has a powerful rig, good waterline length, a flattish planing stern and low mass..... another example of Dudley's ability to put modern thinking in a traditional package. Admittedly it can never be a high-performance skiff like the Paper Jet - for that it would need suitable sides for hiking out, trapeze, and an open transom. But in moderate conditions it will surprise many other contemporary dinghies, and in skilled hands it can reach amazing speeds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Versatility is excellent. Its a great sailboat, a comfortable boat to row or motor, and a great picnic boat with its ample and high seating. It moves very easily under a 4Hp auxiliary no matter how laden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The example shown above has the side seat option - which were added later to the design to make for comfortable sailing. Without the side-seats, the floor below can be covered with a slatted cockpit sole which offers plenty of space for sleeping and camp-cruising. Plenty of stowage in the bow too.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lovely sharp bow, a bit like a fishing "Panga"!<br />Seakindly and smooth. Hull works well whilst level or inclined.<br />The high, flared bow with overlapping gunwales makes it a nice dry boat in a chop.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Argie boats were originally commissioned by our local newspaper - the Cape Argus. The first one was built by David Biggs - a very well known reporter and columnist on the staff. A man with a well known propensity for good wine, the outdoors, classic motorbikes (and scooters) and good humour! Somehow the brands seem very compatible! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was not unlike the case of the Mirror dinghy, conceived by the Daily Mirror in the UK in the early 1960s. Although the orginal Mirror Dinghy is significantly smaller than the Argie 15, the boats share a number of similarities - both are uncomplicated traditional boats intended for home-building in plywood. Both offer the option to store the entire mast within the hull whilst trailering. Both are very easily built using stitch and glue construction - in fact the Mirror was the pioneering design of this method for sailing dinghies as I recall. The Argie 15 is a much more capable boat in every way and far better looking, although the Mirror dinghy class is by now one of the largest in the world now and has a very active racing fleet. Both have been extraordinarily successful concepts. I suspect the Argie would be easier to build in fact despite its larger size, and Roy (of CKD Boats) tells me it is in fact quite a bit cheaper too. <a href="http://www.ckdboats.com/argie15.html" target="_blank">CKD Boats</a> do a very good and affordable kit in Cape Town, although many other suppliers are listed on www.dixdesign.com. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dudley has full details of the design on his website <a href="http://www.dixdesign.com/argie15.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a decent skeg running back to the transom which adds strength, <br />aids tracking, and makes it easy to beach the hull. <br />There are two additional runners abeam the skeg which serve the same purposes, <br />but in addition will allow the boat to sit level on a beach without rocking. <br />Important for a camp-cruiser!<br /><br />Transom is fairly high, with space and provision for a small outboard next to the rudder.<br />Hull is amazingly light and easy to lift on/off a small trailer.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For myself - this will be my next dinghy when time allows. I have already acquired the rig and a small outboard! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">STOP PRESS:</span></b> Dudley has just now (8 June 2014) added a great article on the Argie 15 on his <a href="http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/2014/06/argie-15-boat-with-multiple.html" target="_blank">blog</a>. This contains a fair bit of the history of this boat.</span><br />
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not often deemed a success – although lacking in results the Hout Bay Long Haul
was an unqualified success! </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">For some reason I was given a bottle of
wine at the prize giving and when I turned round it really hit me how many
people were there and who had been enticed out of the woodwork for the event,
and it was not just looking full because we were sharing the event with the
Keel Boat Sailors sailing in the Admirals Cup Regatta being run concurrently
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seen on the beach were Eddie Scarper –
who worked with John Whitmore I understand. Alison Ball, looking as fabulous
and if anything fitter than ever, came looking for a sail if one was available.
We had Zac and Cody Wessels first time out on a Hobie 16 together – good to see
you Zac – William – Cody is the ideal Tiger Crew for you. Stewart Walker had
yet another good looking crew in the form of Megan Bagshaw while Sue crewed for
Andrew on the Tiger – brave girl. The Du Plessis family eventually found the
road out of Langebaan and made it to Cape Town although only Jaco and Shannon
sailed. Martin Fine crewed for son Robert on his 16 - now with nicely refurbished
carbon rudders. By design Belinda had Perry Harrison-Hyde of Laser fame on the
foredeck – Belinda take him out in 20knots at Fishhoek and make him look under
the tramp on the trapeze like Shaun if you really want to show him ! It was
great to see our esteemed sponsor Simon van Nimwegen sailing with John Gilberg
– we hope to see more of you both - thank you for the very generous
sponsorship. Ian Dunt turned the clock back pitching up with Sarah Wallace and
yet another Hobie 16 from his fleet of boats. Klaas (Old Sea Dog) de Rooy
thought he could see his boat and car on the 1988 poster advertising the event
– it seems he has always liked brightly coloured sails. The Wijtenburg Clan
stayed down in CT after the Tiger Nationals, Mark sailing the Tiger with Andrew
Fourie (we think it was Andrew – hard to tell) while Brandon and Todd practised
for the youth Worlds. Petrol on the N1 was at a premium when they went home on
Tuesday – towing a Tiger with a 16 on top behind 5.5 litres of Mercedes
makes your eyes water at the thought of the fuel bill. It was great to see
Andre and Michele Diener on the water – more please next year and Andrew
Hulsman sailing with Marijke Honig was another Hobie sailor we would love to
see more of. Mike and Emma Roberts were a welcome addition – we have not met
them before I believe. Martin (goes sailing) was the lone Mosquito. The Obree’s
Mark and Sarah and Matthew Whitehead represented Hobie 16 sailors normally seen
on the Grand Slam circuit. Well done to Andrew Walker and Jeremy Nel for
getting such an eclectic line up. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the weather department – fog, NW wind, dead calm, SW wind and dead calm again.
The race officer, Vice Admiral (accent on the Vice) Chrome Hunter confused us
all at the skippers briefing by asking at 9.40 who could make a 10.30 start and
upon receiving the negative from most sailors then said the start would be at
11 or 12 please could we be on the water by 10am ! Course cards gave GPS
coordinates of the marks, all bar the last to be left to starboard but checking
these at sea proved to be difficult on a Hobie – next time buoys all round
please. Simon Russell could not sail but sent the attached newspaper front page
from 1988 showing both the weather and political climate have calmed down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although there were no results and the
organizers were largely unaware of it there were several competitions within
the competition – just like a cycling or trial running race there were courses
to suit all - Seb. Perhaps if we had a trail run to the start we could even get
Richard Ayres to sail. The first competition was a sort of ‘Top Gear challenge’
– drive from Hout Bay to Fishhoek and back to collect your missing sails before
the fleet leave the beach. There was just one team entered in this – Carolyn
Fulton and Andy Nixon – Andy was first home sailing an Audi I understand,
having received an additional challenge at FHBSC finding the garage was locked.
Score - Hobies 1, Car 0. Colin Whitehead and Josh Selig won the short course
home – turning at the blinder below Chapman’s Peak due to some confusion in the
shorten course procedure. They sailed back out to try to go around again in the
light airs (I am being diplomatic – it was mostly ‘bobbing’) Klaas (Old Sea
Dog) De Rooy and Suzanne Morton won the long course going around the blinder,
up to one of the Keel boat marks past our turning mark before Kommetjie, back
to the blinder, back to the Hobie mark and then back into Hout Bay beating
almost every one back to the beach. Iain Park-Ross scared the hell out of his
new crew Tracy Pels by sailing over the blinder – Iain not the way to treat a
new crew ! With all boats drifting back to the finish and beach by 1.30pm
Chrome (Vice Admiral) Hunter started a 2<sup>nd</sup> race over near the Chapman’s
Drive shore in the hope of more wind but even there it was not to be. The only
highlight was a Hobie 14 beating all but one Tiger to the weather mark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lucky draw prizes choreographed by Zac Wessels. Nic Ryall had a great surprise
when he won R 500 donated by Dave Power for the first Hobie 14 home. Jeremy
Nel, Andrew Walker, Sue Walker & the ever present Marijke Klaver -
Registration, Chrome – race officer, Taffy and Shirley Bowen (who came back
especially from their world cruise of 14 years) to help and feed, Jurgen
Duncker Beach Control and finally Jerry Rogers who had the unenviable task of
directing traffic through the dunes – thank you all. Finally the last word to
Rob Selig – who else always has the last word ? – ‘that if he saw Caroline R at
the 3<sup>rd</sup> Hobie Regatta in a row it would rain’ and you all know what
happened on Sunday ! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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during the offseason including the WCHCA prize giving and Grand Slam Series Winners
and the proposed calendar for 2014~2015 – please no weddings on regatta
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justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-51756207080837255172014-05-06T08:21:00.003+02:002014-06-30T08:43:39.804+02:00Admirals Regatta Pics!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See the full album at <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/102250088063458430960/Admirals2014Watermark" target="_blank">Admirals 2014 Pics on Picasa</a></span></div>
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justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-32201294278858781802014-01-08T10:10:00.001+02:002014-06-30T08:43:39.770+02:00Cape to Rio 2014<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four days after the start, this most recent Cape to Rio 2014 is already being talked about on the same terms as the Fastnet race of 1979, the Sydney Hobart of 1998 and the Vasco da Gama Race of 1984. To be fair, the weather wasn't quite as extreme, but conditions did result in sustained Force 8 Winds and 6m seas, resulting in a quarter of competitors (9/36) retiring in the first few days. Widespread damage was reported across the fleet. One crewman tragically died onboard SV Bille (Bavaria 54) during their dismasting. Rescues were mounted by naval frigate SA Islandwana, Tug Miriam Makeba, NSRI Station 3, and several fellow competitors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Black Cat:</b> Suffered a major capsize in heavy seas, loss of rudder, followed by a subsequent complete roll in a giant wave that collapsed on them, and fair mayhem in the boat. Despite a remarkable recovery from the experienced crew they were unable to continue and started making their way to Saldanha slowly. NSRI 3 later assisted with a tow back to Cape Town. Besides sprains and bruises, they are all ok, and the boat is easily repairable. Watch this one in subsequent races as she was looking extremely quick until the crash. See <a href="http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/2014/01/our-cape-to-rio-race-wrap-up.html" target="_blank">Dudley Dix's account on his blog</a> (skipper, designer, original builder of the vessel). The official race report said "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5d5c; font-family: Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">BLACK CAT has reported a broken rudder and is proceeding back to Cape Town, one crew has a sprained ankle and all are well." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Can't accuse them of being verbose I suppose!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">See Black cat tell their story courtesy of <a href="http://vimeo.com/83656520" target="_blank">Steve Searle's video.</a> This is a must see!</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bille: </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Bille is a 54' Bavaria with Angolan Crew and flag (along with Mussulo III, she was one two Angolan Bavaria 54's in the race). Sadly she seems to have suffered the worst damage with a dismasting and loss of a crew member, plus a M.O.B. situation. All remaining crew (including the deceased) were evacuated by the Frigate SA Isandlwana, and are now safe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ava:</b> A Miura 31 sailed by father and daughter team Colin and Belinda Horton, suffered damage and flooding (details unclear to me at this stage). They lost electrical power and all comms for a day or two, causing widespread concern, especially after an EPIRB signal was received from them. Their track log looked equally curious during this time and the worst was feared. Competitor yacht SV DODO (Fortuna 37) diverted to look for them. They were eventually spotted by the Frigate who found them in good shape, besides the lack of systems. AVA made it back into Saldanha Bay unassisted a day or so later, I was able to hear their comms and Channel 16 from the South of Cape Town 100 kms away, so I guess they managed to regain at least the main VHF. Well done Ava, and viva la Miura!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Peekay</b>: A Beneteau 51, suffered a variety of sail problems (probably more detail we don't yet have) and limped back to Saldanha Bay. The skipper has decided to leave the boat and is looking for a replacement, according to some reports.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Isla:</b> A large Wilderness Cat, lost both engines and had some flooding in one engine compartment. Container vessel "Bosun" standing by for them, followed by tug Smit Madura, which may tow them home to Cape Town. I am not clear what eventually transpired , but Isla tracker shows her back in Cape Town at time of writing. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>(Update: she was towed in, the last bit by NSRI).</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A PAN-PAN was issued by Isla at some stage and received by Peekay. I see two of my HBYC clubmates were aboard, Rian Turner and Dave Mills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Avocet:</b> A Beneteau 45, disappeared from the track log for a while, she appears to also have lost comms for a day or so. She did however make it back to Cape Town somehow without serious injury, as far as I can tell at this stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Indaba:</b> Stadt 34, skippered by the very experienced John Levin, and with Angelo Lavranos aboard, has had to return to Saldanha bay with an injured crewman. They arrived safely last night sometime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>EXPLORA:</b> An Open 60, reported engine flooding but were able to continue and are doing very well in the continuing race.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Dodo</b>: Fortuna 37, despite standing by for AVA, also suffered loss of steering and engine. They have made it back to Saldanha Bay unassisted, and appear to be tied up at Club Mykonos according to the tracker, no doubt swopping tales with Indaba.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>FTI Flyer</b>: A Charger 33, well known campaigner in our local club races and veteran of the Rio Race, adopted a unique and very northerly route for reasons I am not clear on (possibly to avoid worst weather and be close to shore). They headed back after two days and made it safely into Cape Town unassisted. I hope to get the story from skipper Keith Mattison at some stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Avanti:</b> A Vickers 41, also returned to Saldanha Bay, and is tied up at Club Mykonos, after apparently spending some time at Kraal Bay if the tracker is to be believed? Avanti's story still unknown to me at this stage, but bots like this don't give up this kind of race without extremely good reasons...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cape to Rio official race website <a href="http://www.cape2rio2014.com/" target="_blank">here</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cape to Rio race <a href="http://www.xtra-track.com/cape2rio2014" target="_blank">live online tracker</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RCYC <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2385303424/" target="_blank">Facebook group on the Rio Race</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yolo-sa6130.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blog of Yolo SA6130 Sunfast 3200</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://teamciaobella2014.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blog of CiaoBella</a> (Simonis 35 with family Robinson)</span></li>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I would be grateful for all and any further info, or race accounts, or corrections for inclusion here. Please email me <a href="mailto:justin.phillips@mweb.co.za" target="_blank">here</a>. Contributions and accounts from competitors especially will be appreciated. Many thanks!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Commentary:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The outcome of this storm could have been significantly worse. It is a huge credit to the crews and vessels that nearly all boats survived or were able to get back unassisted, despite loss of sails, rudders, engines and electronics. It should be noted that these vessels are all very seaworthy and well scrutineered for a race of this nature. Many of these vessels are well accustomed to the very challenging conditions of the Cape waters. Many of the crew are veterans of ocean racing and several have done this race multiple times. Normally, the Cape to Rio race is thought of as a Trade Wind "milk run", but long races always bring suprises, and Cape Waters bring them all too frequently. These boats and crews have shown extreme seamanship, and there will not be need for any kind of review into "what went wrong". This was all well done. That's what ocean racing is all about.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will add detail and stories as they become available. </span>justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-14767176564601872162013-12-19T18:47:00.001+02:002014-06-30T08:43:39.747+02:00Praise for Legacy Yacht Sales!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I recently decided to sell my little Flamenca "Quest", I elected to use Legacy Yacht Sales. For no particular reason than I bought her from Carl Olivier who started this company, and he turned out to be a good guy. Subsequently, Carl sold the business to Malcolm McRobert, with whom I had had some email exchanges on boat details previously. Malcolm seemed like a very decent bloke although I had never met him personally. I was keen to use a broker because they serve a very useful role as intermediary in the transaction, which makes it objective, safe and efficient. And so it was....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Due to the market being very low, and despite a steady stream of nibbles via the website etc, it was clear we would have to drop the price somewhat. We did eventually sell her (Quest) at about 20% less than the asking price. On account of this, Malcolm was very conciliatory regarding the commission - I won't spell it out in case someone thinks its a precedent! - but on account of the great service I insisted we stick to the original terms at 10%. Now even at 10% on such a small boat, its a lot of work for a broker. Paperwork was efficiently handled thanks to email and scanners etc. It was a dead-easy experience for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The proceeds of the sale were transferred promptly and in fact Malcolm even arranged to skipper the delivery of the boat up to Saldanha himself. That's 120% service as I see it. I am sure the buyer would offer similar views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must add I have no reason to doubt the service of the other brokers in town, but in this case I just happened to use Legacy, and would gladly use them again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Legacy Yacht Sales <a href="http://www.legacyyachtsales.co.za/" target="_blank">website</a>.</span>justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-7533132428734520322013-10-03T09:09:00.004+02:002014-06-30T08:43:39.816+02:00Dabchick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its often said that many of the greatest racing drivers started with Mini-Coopers, and the same is often said of sailors and Dabbies. The Dabchick turned out to be one of the best sail training boats ever. This is the purest sailing you can imagine, although it helps if you have warm water! They are very sensitive boats and equally rewarding. Anyone sailing a Dabby develops strong instincts for the key elements of sailing viz. boat balance, sail trim, concentrating on the helm, anticipating the waves, weight distribution aboard etc - and a sense of how these can make you go faster or not. I think the element of single-handing comes into it as well, which in turns brings a level of resourcefulness and self reliance that is natural to Dabbie sailors. People who learn sailing on keel-boats often don't get this experience easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dabbies perform uniquely well, especially in fresh winds. Their flat scow shape makes them quite controllable when planing at speed, and their well-balanced rig - main and jib - is fairly predictable and orthodox. Off the wind, they go like blazes, easily planing, and bouncing over the back of the waves as you surf over them. When beating, they can be heeled over to an extreme angle - ride on the vertical gunwales - although this isn't the right way to go fast it did seem like fun at the time! Dead downwind - they can bury their bows and submarine while lifting the rudder out of the water if one had a fair load on board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dabbies are about the simplest boats to build and were very cheap then ... made of three sheets of ply, a few bits of meranti, Aerolite epoxy glue, a strip of fibreglass on the keelson, decent paint, and brass screws. No power-tools used. By comparison they seem quite high-tech now. My first Dabby had no bought components besides the mainsheet blocks and the stay wires, excluding the chainplates. All other fittings were simply fabricated from stainless steel off-cuts. The mast was wooden, with a track routed into each of the meranti halves. The sails were "K" sails - made in Dacron by Jack Koper (well I seem to think his wife made the sails). The whole effort cost less than R100 in 1967.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides the low cost - the simplicity of Dabbies made them so attractive. The flat topped hull was light and easy to move and lift - making them manageable for even quite young children. Lifting onto car tops, storing in garage etc was also easier. Not to mention that the hull can't hold water - they were also relatively safe in that respect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hull-design of scow dinghies is another fascinating point. Every boat needs a fine bow to soften the waves it hits. The bow can be soft in plan view or in the side elevation - i.e. pointy when viewed from above, or flat and tapered when viewed from the side... They each have pros and cons. For keelboats and displacement vessels, the pointy (plumb) bows seem attractive because they offer a longer waterline length, and create smooth lines to deep wineglass hulls. They usually track well. If waterline length isn't the key factor as in planing boats - then broad bows are good because they create a smooth run for water under the hull plus no sharp bends near the bow. When a V-bottom scow dinghy heels slightly - it is running on a flat underside which offers maximum lift and minimum wetted area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note the length is exactly 1.5x a standard sheet of ply, and the width exactly equal to one sheet. No wastage here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is fantastic to see how the class is thriving in at least Cape Town, Hermanus and Mossel Bay at least - though I understand there are active classes all over the country and in fact many Dabchicks around the world now. Total numbers over 5000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There can't really be a better boat for kids to learn sailing on....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See also the Sonnet reviewed elsewhere in this blog - also from the pen of Jack Koper. The Tempo has not been covered yet however.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dabchick Class Association <a href="http://www.dabchick.za.net/">http://www.dabchick.za.net/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See also <a href="http://www.classicboat.co.uk/class-notes/dabchick/">http://www.classicboat.co.uk/class-notes/dabchick/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I don't often write about boats I haven't seen in the flesh, or actually sailed. But this is one where the design strikes me as quite unique, has strong local connections, and really deserves to be known. It's attractive as a cruiser, a racer or a dayboat....and unique in the value it offers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Certainly Angelo needs no introduction - he has drawn more good boats than one can count, and I keep discovering new boats from his pen. They are all well thought out and very interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I look at this design, it really strikes me as a modern "Wharram Cat" - in that its very functional, simple and seaworthy. Although that doesn't do it justice - its really quite a high-tech design using simple materials if you see what I mean. And very good looking. Besides the low-profile cabin top, here are two very sound seaworthy hulls with not much windage. It boasts an efficient modern rig with a full roach main and a manageable genoa, with standard back-swept shrouds. Dagger boards are a nice option on the "racing" version. This is a boat that really can sail - it's light and is setup for real sailing. 8 kts round the course, and 15+ off the wind if you have the nerve! The daggerboards don't really impinge on space below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Note the simple layout below. The cabin top is fully allocated to the saloon - this is the main reason for having a cat if you ask me - a nice saloon and living space from which you can see out - a feature not common on monohulls. One hull hosts the (large) galley, the other the (large) heads. This is a sensible arrangement as it allows decent facilities for these functions, while not crowding the bridge deck. So you get 85% of what big cats offer in a far smaller package.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The rudders are transom-hung - making for easy maintenance and repair if necessary. By the drawing - these are controlled with tillers rather than a wheel - you could have both or either I suppose. I quite like the tiller option as it means you could attach a simple tiller pilot rather than an elaborate auto-helm thing, plus there's nothing wrong with steering by tiller and its quite a bit cheaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Daggerboards will give her good sailing, but for cruising the fixed "keels" may be attractive - for beaching, and simplicity, and to protect the saildrives, which may be the preferred option for cruisers. Along with kickup rudders, this is a boat you could take right up to the beach on occasion, and clean the hulls without lifting out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Engine comes in two options - a 20Hp 4-stroke - e.g. Honda - mounted midships on a nacelle, or two small inboards. I think this offers the best of both worlds - cruising or racing. For cruising purposes I think inboards would be the way to go - long distance motoring with diesel, manouverabilty in marinas, fuel-economy and no petrol onboard. For racing, and sailing from a home port, the outboard would be ideal - very light, no prop to drag, very quiet and out of the boat, while still reliable and effective... your dinghy engine could be a backup I suppose. And very good value...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Construction is from a plywood kit. Not very complicated, but it is a fair bit of work. The hull is sheathed in GRP - makes it scratch-resistant and strong. There are no expensive items here - everything is simple and can be achieved with low-tech kit and options. I would indulge in two nice self-tailers for the primaries, a stack pack for the main and a roller-furler for the headsail. Plus a traveller for the main. That's not a lot of money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The boat is designed to be light. Keeping it light will keep it safe, buoyant, responsive and fast. However, you could load it if you need to, as long as you don't press too hard. Another rather nice thing about cats - most of 'em - is that they don't sink - certainly this one won't...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I think its an ideal design for local and offshore racing - Cape-Rio, Governors Cup and Mykonos, or a cruiser for a small family. It won't break the bank, but it offers very safe and comfortable sailing with impressive performance. And a nice live-aboard option. Did I mention parties and day sails?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also a damn nice motor-cat if you look at it like that.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.90625px;">This project has been “gestating” on a personal level for the last 10 years. My aim is the smallest family ocean cruising cat, that is to say with sufficient load carrying capacity to do an ocean crossing with a family, of minimum cost, and capable of amateur construction with the minimum of labour and skill. She is also aimed at being a fast, practical & enjoyable boat for local use. She is small enough for easy shorthanded use. The hull structure is “pre cut” by a CNC cutter as a kitset, or can be cut to plotted templates as a cheaper option if preferred. <span style="color: blue;">The Kitset is available from CKD Boats</span> in Cape Town. Their quality is A1 and different ply type options are available. Since wastage is minimised (much less than hand cutting), and CKD buy much more cheaply than private buyers, one generally finds that the kit costs hardly more than buying the raw material, and then you save hundreds of hours in labour. The boat is set up on ply bulkheads and stringers and the skin is glass taped with epoxy resin along the chines, inside and out, there are no chine logs. The hull & deck is mostly 9mm ply with 12mm in the forward wingdeck and hull bottom forward. The outside is GRP/epoxy sheathed. She is simple, strong, fast, comfortable, cheap and “unsinkable”. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The interior consists of four berths (two doubles + 2 singles), a saloon settee, a practical galley with icebox, and a toilet compartment, all with standing headroom (1820 under deckstringers) . She is totally functional, and all that is needed for comfort at sea. She is configured with two machinery and keel variations: A 4 stroke 20HP outboard on a hinging nacelle is fitted for economy, as is tiller steering, with “kick up” rudders. If the motor starts to make trouble it is easily replaced. I haven’t worked out how many times you can relace it to equal the cost of diesels. Other “choices” in the “gilded lily” approach stretch to installed water tank versus fitted 20 lit container storage. However with the outboard and daggerboard combination, and simplest accommodation gear, we have the fastest boat AND the shallowest draught for the smallest outlay. People lose sight of the fact that comfort at sea revolves round some very simple “basics”, a dry bunk with good ventilation, a place to prepare hot food, a place to sit out of the sun & elements, a private toilet, standing headroom. The rest is “bells & whistles” which all come at a price of increased cost, maintanance, and degrading performance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The rig is the simplest possible, with a pair of cap shrouds and headstay triangulated, single diamond. The sail inventory is essentially a mainsail, a roller furler jib, and a storm jib. Optional: Genneker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.90625px;">A first class builder estimates 1600 hours, professional hours in a set up boatshop, to unfaired and unpainted hull, deck, joinery stage. CNC cut kits from CKD Boats in Cape Town, a very experienced company, is available at a really competitive price. Email Roy Mc Bride (roy@comlumber.com ) . Most likely you will find the cost of the CNC kit ( including shipping) is less than a private person is likely to buy the raw materials, so that the huge labour saving is more or less “free”!</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-NZ"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">consciously not "overpressed" when so loaded. The length/beam ratio at datum flotation is 9.07. This offers a good compromise between reasonably slim hulls and good load carrying ability. This is augmented by the additional "flare" developed in the topsides, whereby beam (and waterplane area) increases considerably with increasing immersion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lavranos Marine Design, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ph: 09 4802232, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Email:<b> </b><b> </b></span><b style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:Lavranos@ihug.co.nz" style="color: #666666;">Lavranos@ihug.co.nz</a></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="color: #666666;">See also <a href="http://www.ckboats.com/">www.ckboats.com</a> for details of the kit.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>UPDATE:</b> We have received some pics of "Sarita" under construction, and now recently floated at Port Alfred in South Africa. This was a home build on a farm - a good example of a D.I.Y. home-build. The interior is not fully fitted yet but gives a good idea of the accommodations and spaciousness this design offers. I understand the kit was a great success and fitted perfectly. This particular one is slightly unusual in that it has two outboards instead of one - two beautiful Honda 20 four-strokes at that. The rig is yet to be fitted, but the platform clearly offers a lot, in a very good-looking package.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> A nice full galley space, below.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Floating on the Kowie river! Unladen (besides engines), and without rig etc.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It started in a small shed. The truss design permits extra height!</span></td></tr>
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justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-56917118216203533682013-05-14T12:29:00.004+02:002021-12-04T10:02:53.584+02:00Cape Cutter 19, Cape Henry 21, Cape May 25 (new), Cape Charles 32 (preview)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Boats, even leisure boats, exist for different reasons - racing, cruising, liveaboard, fishing, etc - and they all have their place in the sun. Day boats however, are the most special kind, because they exist purely for the fun of being on the water, for gunkholing, picnicking, camping, and simply going out to clear your head. They are generally smallish, traditional and good looking, and in my opinion maybe the purest design form available - pure art really! The CC19 and the CH21 are both brilliant examples of this.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The CC19 was conceived by one Nick Voorhoeve - from memory about 1998? They were intended to compete in the "Cornish Crabber" market, popular in the UK and Europe. At that time the SA Rand was very weak against foreign currencies, and it was intended it would be built locally and exported in a 20 foot container. Dudley was commissioned to do the design - it is one of his own favourites and certainly one to be very proud of. See <a href="http://www.dixdesign.com/inspir19.htm">http://www.dixdesign.com/inspir19.htm</a> for Dudley's own commentaries on this one.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The design is very traditional and practical at the same time. She was designed originally for GRP production (or wood) with a lifting centreboard. The hull has a lapstrake look, quite beamy with a traditional looking cabin top. The gaff rig is easily demountable, and easily handled from the cockpit.There is a very neat well for a small inboard (this is a great feature). Rudder hangs over the traditional transom. Below, the space is quite vast for a 19 footer, and nicely laid out. Very adequate for a few nights aboard.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">While sailing a very large cat recently in Table bay, a CH21 crept up on us from a few miles behind. At first we couldn't see what it was, with many comments about how an old boat with a gaff rig could be moving that fast. Well in fact an old boat with a gaff rig simply can't go that fast - I then realised it must be a new boat and likely the new CH21 launched in Cape Town recently. Well it was - I snapped a pic of it near Sunset Beach. This particular one was built by Peter Randle, and has bilge-keels. It was doing a steady 6 knots in about 10 knots of wind on the beam, and slowly it slipped past us!</span></div>
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<li><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Built up GRP boat from Cape Cutter Yachts at <a href="http://www.capecutter19.com/default.htm">http://www.capecutter19.com/default.htm</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My good friend Alan Harrington from HBYC recently launched his new boat, the Nexus 600. Now Al and I have had a good few beers together over the past few years, and certainly I had heard quite a bit about this boat before seeing it, but nothing could have prepared me for the surprise on the day I first saw it - about two weeks ago....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will have to be careful not to over-write this boat! It simply is about the nicest thing I have seen or contemplated as boats go. Its huge, beautiful, oozes quality, and it sails quite beautifully. Its nicer than a nice boat, and its nicer than a nice house..... Her name is "Ke Nako" - a Sesotho expression for "Now is the time". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As interesting as the boat itself, is the way it came about, and the people involved. Al - the owner, is a newly retired very successful businessman, with a passion for boats, cars, technology and Windhoek Lager. This is not his first boat build either. He was involved in every little detail from the outset, and has given huge input to the way this all played out. In fact many people have added to the story - the Nexus crowd are very open to all and any good ideas. Find them at <a href="http://www.nexuscatamarans.com/">www.nexuscatamarans.com</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Paarman brothers (the surfing bunch) and team, are the originators of Nexus cats and the concept behind them. I think it was Mark Paarman who originally conceived the need for a large load-carrying cat for surfing charters etc. There simply wasn't anything available in this size and shape. Somehow Jonathan (pro boat builder) and Roger (MD and factory manager) were brought into the mix, and they setup shop in St Francis to make the first cat. John Henrick too. The designer was Anthony Key. Subsequently others have also become involved - a guy called Phil Berman, and du Toit naval architects. Its a project that has hit a sweet spot, and suddenly everyone knows this is a very useful platform.....the fourth one is now taking shape in the factory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By nature, cats of this size and price are "low volume" production items. This means you get to work closely with the builders, and a fair bit of customisation is possible. And you couldn't find a nicer bunch to work with than the Paarmans - nice down to earth people. On the day I went sailing on this thing Roger was aboard, in fact he was living on board at Al's invitation, and clearly the relationships between client and builders was excellent, more like an extended family by then. Ditto for the others involved. If you want to build a boat, this is a critical element of it. If it was me, I would chose good builders first, after that the rest comes easy....not to mention the boats "karma"!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About a third of the world's cruising cats are built in South Africa, and certainly many of them have excellent reputations. We have great designers, great sailors and some excellent builders. Think Robertson and Caine and Southern Wind. But Nexus is right up there with them and they produce an excellent quality vessel....maybe the best to come out of SA, maybe the best of its kind anywhere?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aft decks are huge, really well appointed and designed. In warm climes, this is really where you live. Think about the space on a 44 cruising cat and multiply by about six..... a lovely RIB tender hangs off the back, with dive compressor and a 20 KVA genset lurk under sound-proof hatches in the deck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bridge. This an uber-cool station with every lovely marine instrument you can imagine accessible through some Furuno multi-function screens. Great radio kit (ICOM M603 and M801E) plus a satphone. Most of it replicated on the helm position, and performance indicators in each of the four cabins, and above the aft-decks..... I like this place.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The electrics on this boat are not trivial.... Power comes from either shore power, a 19 KVA Cummins-onan genset (unbelievably quiet), or a large battery bank with a 10 KVA inverter. Besides the instrumentation and lighting, you will find about 8 fridges or freezers, a few microwave ovens, TVs and music, a large watermaker, dive compressor, four large airconditioners, and a plethora of electric winches, windlasses etc. To bring this altogether, Alan took the plunge and installed a fantastic switching system made by Mastervolt. It saves loads of cabling, and allows amazing flexibility in configuration. Home automation on steroids. Al explains it best<a href="http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=17592" target="_blank"> here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The galley. Like a nice house. Great views. It stays level! See the capuccino machine on the far side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The helming position. from the other side. Sorry I didn't get this one close-up. Its comfortable and dead-easy to do it all from here. This boat can be steered, tacked and all things done easily by one person from the helm station. Electric winches help, but it really is a triumph of well organised sheets, winches and jammers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How does she sail, do I hear you say? Well, on the day I went out, we had 10-14 kts at times, and a nice flat sea. We saw 7-10 knots mostly under main and genny only. 8 knots under power (slow cruising speed in first gear), with a fair reserve, she could run at 10+ under power if necessary. The following week, Al went out and found a patch with 20-30 knotsof wind. They saw 20 knots on the log.... I suspect that on a passage, using spinny and code-0, she could average 10-20 for extended periods. With no fuss at all. People below decks would not even know, except for the instruments! She seemed to tack through 100 degrees though I have to say we weren't even trying. And then there's 2 x 110 Hp Yanmars to use if you really want to press on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tacking the boat is dead easy. She shows no inclination to stall in the turn at all - you can take it easy and just rely on the momentum and her deepish keels to take her round. Mainsail looks after herself as one would expect, and the jib comes around easily by hand, amazingly. Then you add tension with the size 60 motorised winches.... one person can do this all quite easily from the helm station. Even the furler on the genny is electric, and single touch on that button can be used to angle the headsail foil optimally for the tack. Despite the monumental size of the sails, its astonishingly easy.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See her vital-statistics<span id="goog_590181329"></span> <a href="http://www.nexuscatamarans.com/nexus-600-sail-away-version-spec-sheet-august-2011" target="_blank">here</a><span id="goog_590181330"></span>....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall, I loved this boat because she really is conceived by sailors and boats-people with nautical recreation in mind. Not by interior decorators and bling artists. She is very well thought out and well appointed, but no bling. For instance the ceilings are clean white stipple paint, but table surfaces are a nice bamboo finish. The spaces for the engines, the genset, the lazarettes, the chain stowage, the diving compressors etc etc etc are large, clean and open. No space for creepies and dirt that scares the hell out of one when looking at used boats! The sailing kit is all top notch and really looks the business. The sails are not for show. Sailing, reefing, furling and anchoring is all functional and top notch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I haven't even mentioned the cabins below. They are spacious, practical and the beds are extremely comfortable. Each cabin has a 16k BTU aircon. Al has sacrificed one set of heads for a laundrette with a Miele washing machine and tumble-dryer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall, this is one boat you can live on with all home comforts and then some. I couldn't think of a nicer place to be. Plus she sails really well, and has the quality you expect for an investment of this nature. For chartering and excursions, I can't imagine better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is there anything to criticise on this boat? Well not that I know of. I can't tell if she slams in a seaway because I haven't been there. The bridgedeck is higher than most. For her intended purpose, I can see no problems at all. Cold climes and/or the Southern Ocean may be different, and certainly she is no river cruiser given her beam of 8.7m, and a mast that rises about 26m above the water! Draft though is a very acceptable 1.4m.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What does she cost? About the same as the latest <a href="http://cars.aol.co.uk/2013/03/06/supercar-sensation-ferrari-takes-wraps-off-900bhp-laferrari/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk%7Cdl13%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D166553&a_dgi=aolshare_email">Ferrari.</a>.... I know which I would rather have!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier this week (1-3 October 2013) - I had the opportunity of joining the boat for the delivery trip from St Francis to Cape Town for the annual Cape Town Boat Show. This is a voyage of about 350 n.m. and takes 2-3 days if the weather is favourable. Essentially, this is <i>the</i> "Cape of Good Hope" passage and is one of the three "Great Capes" in the mind of seafarers - along with Cape Horn and Cape Leeuwin (S Australia). One needs a favourable weather window, a very sound boat, good sea-legs and a touch of madness for his trip. Very few bolt-holes en route. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As it happened, the weather forecasts were very favourable for the period and then some. The boat I knew to be exceptionally capable, and luckily I had some free time. Plus my mate Nick was also available to join, and a day later we were on a small plane bound for Port Elizabeth, where Al collected us. After a pleasant meal with the Paarman-Harrington-Nexus ensemble at St Francis that evening, we slept aboard - very comfortably I might add. Next morning we did a quick tour of the Nexus factory - a neat and well run operation, where we were proudly shown the bare bones of Vessel-4 under construction. Impressive stuff - but I don't have space to cover this here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By 10 a.m. the wind was quite fresh - about 25 knots - and the sea was already looking quite distressed - with a large chop across the swell and plenty of white caps. The sort of day that ski-boats stay in harbour, and commercial trawlers curse. Although the conditions were very much stronger than the forecast we did have a following wind, and of course the boat is large and dry. So off we went - the four of us - skipper Matt, Al, myself and Nick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We exited the harbour straight into the fresh wild chop in the bay. Cats do a remarkable job of cleaving their way through a big chop whilst keeping you dry and comfortable - especially 60' cats that weight 25T. We pushed along to Seal Point under motor before heading West, when we cut the motors and released the genoa. By now we had a North Easter pushing 30 knots on the stern quarter and so we took off at a decent 10-12 knots down the coast on jib alone. It made for a comfortable ride as the rather big following seas swept slowly past. Very pleasant for an hour or two. We had a pleasant lunch and sat on the aft deck admiring the view and the waves, plus the odd whale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The seas continued to build, and the wind strengthened to about 35 knots. Al loaded a new set of Grib files via the sat-phone - they still reported about 9-12 knots of wind and low swell conditions! Cape Town Radio seemed to concur. Conditions to the East of us were reported quite strong however, whilst the weather to the west was reported to be far better. It seemed the weather system of the east had come quite a bit further West than anticipated....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By sunset, the seas were actually quite large, with steep waves of 2-3 m powered along with 35 knots of wind. Quite a lot of white water blowing off the tops, and the odd foamy trying to climb on the back. Even the passing ships were bouncing around. The big cat would rise on each following wave and surf down to the back of the next one, then slow down as a large green wall chased up behind us again. And so this went on until midnight as we trundled on at 8-12 knots, with a few faster surfs. I recall thinking how unbelievably horrible these conditions would be in a lesser boat...even a 45' monohull...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For some reason I didn't manage all my supper that evening, and put my head down at about 10 p.m. - in my large double cabin. And then the world went quiet and all was well - I slept soundly until morning. The big cat drove herself peacefully through the night with Matt and Al keeping watch on the AIS and Radar. At midnight the wind slacked off notably - and on went the Port engine, keeping our speed to eight knots. Al doesn't like anything less than eight knots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the while there was very little slamming - just a bit of a water rush between the hulls as waves came through. Nothing unsettling at all. At no stage was there anything scary - the platform is immensely stable - and very rigid. No flexing or groaning at all. Although it isn't fun being in a big sea - full stop - this boat gave no reason for concern. That's not to say I would have fancied going upwind that night, mind you, except for a man overboard situation or similar....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By nightfall conditions were very very mild - sea was completely flat and amost zero wind. Speed increased to 10 knots as the weather conditions settled - with the Yanmars idling along at 2000 r.p.m. The sky was unbelievably clear and I opted to join the night watch just for the fun of it. This is where I had the chance of experiencing the magnificent facilities at the indoor bridge and the semi-enclosed helm station. Now I am no stranger to the joys of chartplotters etc and decent comms, but in my previous experience (single-handing) this usually means a handheld plotter in one hand, a VHF handheld in the other, mainsheet in my teeth, a tiller-pilot, freezing wind on my face and some cold seawater in my jacket somewhere. Little chance of coffee... Observing and avoiding other vessels becomes a lesser priority mixed in with need to get to the heads or out of the cold... So the idea of sitting at the plush indoor bridge station, with two large nav-screens with radar, chartplotter and AIS overlays, whilst listening to soft music did make a fair impression on me. Did I mention the espresso machine? The ICOM M602 VHF - with its antenna in the clouds, was as clear as a bell. The Cape sea-route is increasingly busy - usually at least 10-12 large ships on the screen at any time - all doing significant speeds. Then there's the little matter of small craft like fishing boats and yachts that often don't show on the AIS and can be hard to sight visually at night. The large radar screen does a great job of finding these, and can track these targets individually showing course, closest approach etc etc. Its all very clear and easy to use. Slight adjustments to the auto-pilot are easy to make from below (or above), and the AIS will immediately reflect the revised closest point of approach. In this way other vessels see the same picture - and much chit-chat is eliminated. What a pleasure...plus all the boats systems are accessible and controllable from this position - example battery states, water levels, nav lights and so on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cape point loomed up at 05:30 next morning, and with a sea like a milkpond we arrived at the V&A Waterfront just 3.h hours later! 3.5 hours from Cape Point to the harbour! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that's what the Nexus 60 (Balance 601) feels like as a passagemaker.....that was 350 n.m. in a real mix of weather, covered in 46 hours, that's about 180 n.m. per day, which I think is a realistic number for a long-term cruising average in mixed conditions. Certainly one could push much harder, and with mainsail and decent conditions one could see daily runs of around 300 n.m. quite comfortably. My little bottle of vitamin pills sat calmly on the smooth bamboo galley counter for all of this, never moved once...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ke Nako has now done a few months cruising the Mocambique cost around Pemba Bay and vicinity, and has done some honest service as a fishing and diving platform, seaside hotel and passagemaker. Besides some minor problems with the greywater pump, she has had no problems at all. Shee is still in boatshow condition - see her at the Cape Town Boat Show this weekend (4-6 October 2013). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born in Auckland in 1949, Bruce was an accomplished and keen Dinghy sailor. By his late teens he was designing and building very fast dinghies. By his early 20s he had a number of fast and light keelboats to his name. The Farr 38/40 reviewed here was drawn in 1978 - Bruce will have been 29 years of age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quick glance at the design list on </span><a href="http://www.farrdesign.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.farrdesign.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> left me in a slight state of shock. There are literally hundreds of designs (I didn't have time to count them all) - but so many big name boats I hadn't known were his. For example Ceramco (early Whitbread maxi), the new Farr 40s, Transpac 52s, Mumm 36s, some of the super Maxis eg Mirabella and the big Wallys, many of the lead Volvo 70s, half a doxen Open 60s and Whitbread 60s - it goes on and on and on). Did I mention the America's Cup yacht KZ-1, many of the recent Bavarias and Beneteaus? Anyway, the Farr 38/40 sits right in the middle of the list as a small "performance cruiser" if you don't mind! I had a good chuckle when I read the brochure, describing this as unashamedly a cruiser! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See </span><a href="http://www.farrdesign.com/pdfs/172brochure.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.farrdesign.com/pdfs/172brochure.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> if you don't believe me! Its an instructive read. Felt like I was laughing in church! Where I come from this is quite a mean machine. They go like hell, are capable of winning anything in our club classes and occasionally even line-honours amongst some large modern thoroughbreds. The local Farr 38/40 "Al" has been well campaigned and just proves the performance credentials of this design. As for a cruiser? - well think of taking the family on holiday in a four-seater Ferrari, instead of the Volvo this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a designer, Farr stands out as someone who really made the case for light boats, and safe, seaworthy, light boats at that. The yachting world was really quite shocked when his designs first appeared - refusing to believe that such relatively light boats could be seaworthy. I wouldn't say he was the first - even van der Stadt was doing this - but nobody popularised the case better than Farr. The other thing Farr seems to excel in is optimising the proprtions and dimensions of a boat for a given race or task. Ceramco (68') was such a yacht - skippered by Sir Peter Blake in the 81/82 RTW Whitbread Race. It weighed about 2/3 that of its main competitor, Flyer-2 76' (S&S, Conny van Rietschoten), yet they sailed almost within sight of each other around the world. But for an unfortunate dismasting on the last leg I think, Ceramco would have clearly won . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to the Farr 38/40. Unlike many of the others in this blog, Bruce Farr is not a South African designer (we make a very special case for Kiwis though!). However this design has been very popular here, as a very good offshore-racer, club-racer and class-racer. They are seldom campaigned under IRC as the ratings are just too punitive - as this class was designed in a conscious departure from any rating systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You will note this class is often referred to as the Farr 38 (40) class. The original design is for a 38 footer, and the 40s have an extended sugar-scoop stern - presumably for downwind racing. The example I am most familiar with - viz. HBYC's "Faraway" has recorded consistent speeds at around 17 knots for extended periods on the Cape to Rio race - so clearly they can plane well. Notably, this boat was rolled 360 degrees by a large breaking wave near Saldnaha Bay on the return from Rio - it righted promptly, with only a broken vang, and a fair bit of mess down below! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"Faraway" - above - has tiller steering, running backstays, the sugar scoop extension, no lazy-jacks, and generally no roller furling. In my humble opinion, she is dam hard work, and the owner skipper - Chris Sutton, a hardy and wild old 72-year old (also our ever popular Commodore) show no sign of repenting on these matters, as long as he can muster 6-8 crew! This is not a good example for shorthanding, and single-handing is totally unthinkable. In truth - this is not actually what Farr intended. With suitable rigging, she would be dead easy to sail shorthanded, as indeed some are. She also sails beautifully under main alone. I am not sure whether she was originall drawn with a tiller or a wheel - both examples are common here - but certainly the tiller is great, and she sails like a dream. In the rough conditions around Cape Town (not to mention Hout Bay's own horrific squalls), she is safe and quite forgiving, and always fast. In light airs she is also very impressive. This truly is a safe all-weather boat. The cockpit is ample and well suited to a busy racing crew, while also nice for cruising. The open stern and sugar scoop make boarding exceptionall easy. The accommodations are really basic on this example, but in many cases are very comfortable and well fitted below. Not huge for a 38 footer below - but certainly acceptable for a long downwind race. . . .</span></div>
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Farr's own commentary, per their website:<br />
Design #72 Farr 11.6/38 <br />
November 1981<br />
The Farr 11.6 metre (38 ft) fast cruising sloop continues to gain popularity around the world. At present there are 85 boats sailing in 8 countries. Designed in 1978, the yacht was inspired by a trend away from the IOR Rule restrictions towards a 'pure' design concept to produce a fast, comfortable, easily handled and relatively economical yacht. Changes to the IOR Rule in 1977 and 78 were obsoleting yachts the year following their launching as well as distorting hull shapes. It was time to look toward the one-design concept that offered security of invenstment and pleasureable sailing.<br />
The Farr 11.6 metre has achieved these aims. It does not rate very favourably under IOR - but it was never intended to. It is simply a very fast cruising boat but will race boat for boat with the best of the 2 tonners. In general terms, the style is for a light (ish) displacement hull form, moderate beam by modern standards with powerful sections, a wide stern and fin bow. The powerful hull coupled with a good percentage of ballast set low in a high aspect keel with fine bow sections makes the boat stiff and ensures excellent performances to windward (particularly in rough water).<br />
This rig is non-masthead swept spreader arrangement with no complicated runners. It has easy to handle headsails and a mainsail large enough to drive the boat by itself for 'nonchalant' cruising. The boat has a high sail area-to-displacement ratio to ensure downwind speed.<br />
The interior design is definitely cruising oriented. It features wide safe companionway steps, 2 or 3 double berths, big galley with fridge and freezer, separate navigation area, separate head and shower. There is an abundance of storage space in the main cabin area and in the wide stern. The boat can cater comfortable for up to 9 people.<br />
Initially the boat was designed for 2 Auckland yachtsmen who previously had owned and competitively sailed one of Bruce Farr's first cruising yachts, and who wanted a fast cruiser/racer to compete in 2nd division Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron series. The first wooden boat, GOLDEN EAGLE, was launched in January 1979. By that time some 16 wooden boat plans had been sold and production for a one-design class yacht was underway in New Zealand and Australia, the first glass boat being launched in Auckland in August 1979. The Farr 11.6 metre was adopted by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron as a class for one design racing. Hightly competitive racing has developed in New Zealand and Australia with yachtsmen crossing the Tasman to compete in events. Owners Associations formed in both countries control class restrictions and racing.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had a few requests to cover the L36, the Atlantis 36 and the Tosca 36. It makes a lot of sense to look at them together - they are three quite different but equally good forms of a medium sized performance cruiser. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The L36</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - is the first design of the three - around 1977/8 - and maybe the most successful. This is also possibly the purest design in that she was designed straight from Angelo's pen - no untoward influence during the design process. Angelo owned one personally for about 16 years viz. "Phoebe" now of FBYC. The L36 is a medium/heavy displacement hull, carries a poweful rig, is a strong all-rounder and held some interesting race records - Cruising division in Cape to Uruguay, and Durban - Cape Town under sail. Designed in the late 70s, she was designed as a "little sister" to the Compass 47, with known properties and dynamics. She carries a masthead rig, not so common today, but which I personally prefer to the modern trend of dominant mainsails - especially for cruising. I am not quite sure why the dominant mainsail thing happened - was it IoR or similar, or the attratction of bendy masts, or the S&S doctrine that favoured fractional rigs? Hopefully I can get a designer to explain this soonish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The L36 is quite a perfomance boat, and a great all rounder as a performance cruiser on all points of sail, though I expect her strongest point will be upwind, where her powerful keel and relatively low wetted area will work well. The hull is moderate - not sportsboat, and not heavy long-keel cruiser. The ends are reasonably fine, making a good sea-boat as well, but not exactly a "downwind racer". The longish keel and deep skeg-hung rudder right on the stern, combined with a fairly slender hull, will give her good balance of responsiveness and ability to track and go straight, whilst not having excessive draught. I can't see this design having any vices, and by reputation they do not. Certainly this has been a very successful all rounder, great for cruising and racing. Despite her proven performance, there are no obvious compromises as a cruiser - certainly she would be on my list as a very good blue-water liveabord cruiser for a couple. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we can easily describe this design as a very good conventional performance-cruiser. However one must remember this was quite amazing in the late-70s - pure eye-candy I am sure - and is a credit that so many boats still look exactly like this. . . . At least 50 were built, all in GRP as far as I know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Moderate longish keel, skeg-hung semi-balanced (spade) rudder. Prop washes straight over the rudder. Moderate beam and reasonably fine ends. Note the fuel-tank in the keel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Atlantis is a light displacement sporty boat, similar to the French production boats that have become so popular. Great for club racing, with good looks and accommodations, and the now very popular sugar-scoop stern. They seem to have been well-built, I remember being very impressed with the finish and quality of an example we had in Hout Bay a few years ago. It had just come back from the Caribbean with her "novice" crew! While not "out and out" blue-water boats in comparison with say the L36, I would venture to say they are better sea-boats than most of the French production boats around - you can see from the drawings Angelo doesn't do floating caravans unless they are labelled clearly as "Houseboats"!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Compared with the L36: Slightly flatter underbody, spade rudder, slightly higher aspect keel, sugar-scoop. The stern is far narrower than the latest Mediterranean creations, probably losing a third double berth in the proces, something they seem to be hell-bent on getting into even 30-footers today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is little doubt this concept of boat has become the most popular over time - especially as club racers, coastal cruisers and charter boats. Designed in 1985, it is still a very contemporary looking design. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For some reason this is my personal favourite of the 3 - and one of my favourite boats ever. Sometimes you just know it when you see it. . . where have you seen a nicer centre cockpit on a boat this size? or any size?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We used to have a great Tosca 36 in Hout Bay called Jandy. Her two successive owners were extremely happy with her, and the second one was able to attest to her seaworthiness through an amazing adventure I don't have space for here unfortunately. I should have bought this boat myself . . . not sure where she is now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quoting from Angelo's email to me on the Tosca</span><em> "Seeing the sucess of the L36, Fred Scholtz asked me to design the Tosca 36, (design 0103) as a production boat, to be cheaper to put together than the L36. Center cockpit rather than aft cockpit. She has a higher volume than the L36, with her beamier, firm bilged, full sterned hull, less ballest, smaller rig, less displacement. Less of an "all rounder" in performance than the L36. More wetted surface and slower in light airs, but faster reaching in a breeze. The original boats were simple & light. Two circumnavigated. Unfortunately as time went on the boats got more elaborate, aft cabin walkthrough, bigger engine, more tankage, bigger rig, stern platform etc."</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When first sighting a Tosca, the main features appear to be the full beam, large and protected centre cockpit, simple Bermudan masthead rig. Typically the decks are clean and uncluttered. Typically they move a lot faster than you would expect of a boat this beamy. The decks are open and give great space to move on. She really is an inviting platform, with nice curves and overall appearance. I have seen some very nice dodgers and doghouses built for them too, but the level of finishing varies enormously as many were owner-fitted, rather horribly in some cases. . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside, the space is unbelievably voluminous, despite the centre cockpit. The for'ard section of the hull is large enough so you fortget there is another cabin aft. She has loads of packing space, and the size gives a great feeling of security. Layout is conventional - except the saloon is so wide you have space for an extra pilot bunk above the settees if you wish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aft cabin is a very nice feature - not an afterthought tacked on in place of the lazarette. It is comfortable and spacious as a cabin, though owners use them for all manner of things - storage, workshops, granny flats etc. Per the original design they are accessible only via the cockpit - but many have been modified for internal access too - not practical in my opinion though. The one I knew had this feature - the owner called it "lumbago alley" . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By far the most amazing feature of the Tosca is the generous centre cockpit. It is deep and secure. The shape is exactly right - the mouldings fit your back. It is high and dry above the water. It justifies a good dodger (or doghouse) beautifully, and makes life very very pleasant for the duty watch or the drinking parties equally . . . its enough to justify the whole boat. Jandy - in Hout Bay - was always the boat people congregated on for drinks or tea when the wind blew. I really wish there were more boats with this feature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Saloon was also great - not unusually great, but quite adequate - which means there is always a "nice place to be" on the boat - although the V-berth was a bit small on the example I know - but hey - the aft cabin was great . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rig is delightfully simple - a single spreader affair, with masthead Genoa and manageable Main. Cheap and easy - and great for cruising. Often one could use the Genoa alone. Roy McBride - of CKD Boats - has fitted several of these and reckons they represent one of the best value cruising options anywhere. I agree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder if musicians can appreciate written music before they have heard it played? I guess they probably can otherwise how would they write it? Anyway - this is the first boat review I am prompted to do on a boat that has not actually been built yet. Its also the first one for which I have been prompted to include an exclamation mark in the name! You'll see what I mean . . . there will be more to come when we see it on the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an extraordinarily interesting design from a number of perspectives. When I first saw the outlines on </span><a href="http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2012/05/dix-designs-new-retro-29-is-announced.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roy McBride's blog</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I responded with a short email commenting on the design which he immediately published, and the interest in this design has been immense. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note the planing underbody, powerful, high-lift keel, and the deep high-aspect rudder. Only the plum bow and the transom-sheer can be seen above water!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Classic topsides including the transom sheer, vertical cabin sides, classic bowsprit, and slightly raised bulwarks up front. Her moderately slender profile gives no further clues to the sportsboat lurking in her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For all the world she looks like a classy and humble old gaffer. Originally gaff rigs had loads of sail (and sails) spread fore and aft on the hull as early technology couldn't support tall masts and high point-loads, or deep keels for that matter. So this rig is capable of hiding a vast sail wardrobe "at the ready" in a low-tech guise. Never mind the powerful assymmetrical on the 2 m bowsprit. Never mind the full roach gaff main, or the two headsails which can be used seperately or in combination, and sheeted right into the centre if desired . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first saw this hull it struck me of the old days when people placed V8s in a "stock standard" looking VW Beetle, and proceeded to blow the socks off the Ferrari's of the day! While that is an unfortunately crude analogy, the element of suprise compares very well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As you can see, the underbody of this yacht is pure sportsboat (without excessive beam and fat stern) - the flat planing sections at the back, long waterline, high aspect (bulb) keel and rudder, deceptively firm bilges, and quite easily-driven (slender) at that. Built from the well proven DiDi-26, the dynamics are well understood, with the advantage of quite a bit more length. Construction from ply will keep it suitably light and very agile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The topsides have all the styling cues of a proper old gaffer. Hahaha! This is where the fun really starts. Gaff-rigs, even in their old original form, are amazingly capable rigs. The well known sailing author Frank Robb wrote a convincing argument explaining his preferences for Gaff Rigs some years ago. In recent times, modern materials, technologies, and the IRC have made a clear winner of tall Bermudan Rigs with dominant mainsails however. Can this design change the state of play again? Probably not, but its going to be quite an interesting race in this example, especially if IRC is left out of the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Firstly, Gaffs are damn fast downwind, and in in all points except hard on the wind. Their centre of effort is much lower than a Bermudan rig, and the roach much fuller. They produce awesome power and penetration, whilst also being more controllable in very heavy winds - as the mast is far shorter - so avoiding the instabilities of tall masts once they are over-powered or start rolling. More broach-resistant by far - which means you can drive quite a bit harder . . . On this 29 Retro, there is the small matter of a big assymetrical on that 2m bowsprit. Given the usual 25+ knots in the Mykonos race, I would be tempted to try it under the spinnaker alone. It will be astonishingly stable using just the bag, which is pulling far ahead of the centre of drag, whilst generating lift on the bow. As such, the rig is inherently stable, it shouldn't be able to broach at all . . . the planing underbody won't produce much argument from the hull, and the combination should be good for > 20 knots in the right hands!! Can't wait to see its first Mykonos race. Even with the main up, the gaff main is far more stable off the wind than its Bermudan counterpart, being far lower. Notice the spars are all carbon-fibre . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This rig offers a <strong>lot</strong> of canvass in many combinations. The hull is easily-driven and light. One tends to sail slightly looser in light airs anyway, so the gaff main will cope well. The two headsails could be flown in combination(s). It should be a killer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Established wisdom on gaffs suggest this will be its weakest point of sail, but I really suspect this is where this rig will offer its biggest suprise. Perhaps even the designer will be suprised! Why? Well typically, the fastest boats upwind are smallish, light and beamy, and benefit from generous crew weights on the weather rail. They generate huge power from the relatively high righting moment against the heeling force. L26s come to mind, and suitably crewed Pacer-27s, Melges 24s etc etc. Even Miuras are quite impressive in this role. But don't forget the RCOD. It's a slender hull, heels like hell, lacks power in the rig, but makes good angles and is easily driven. It moves nicely through a sharp chop on the water. Somehow they get to the next mark faster than you expect. This 29 Retro will do all that and more. The hull will track and point beautifully. The high-aspect (bulb) keel is good for plenty of lift, and its depth will provide good power at a fair angle of heel. The headsails can be sheeted extremely close as they don't clash with the stays. This gaff main is a very neat example - I don't see why it won't come in as close as a Bermudan main given the way the top-spar is fixed? The lower centre of effort is an obvious advantage. As a helmsman, in fresh conditions, I would optimise the headsail(s), use the main primarily to balance the helm upwind, and see how she goes. In lighter conditions she will reward a looser angle of sail favouring hull speed and this may be the way to get a good VMG. Some time with a GPS will be useful. One way or another, there is a lot more to this rig upwind than meets the eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">All in all - this is going to be a very interesting boat to sail and own. There are many races she will do extremely well in, and will suprise the fleet in all circumstances. The beautiful looking traditional element is a joy to any yachtsman. She will dominate the bartalk, the press and the photo galleries. Having driven camera boats at various regattas I can just imagine Trevor Wilkins and Brenton Geach chasing after this baby, with or without the sponsors logos! I wouldn't want to be on the club handicap committee after the first race . . .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">To add some further interest, I don't think this boat will need much in the way of winches - and the standing rigging will be very clean and simple. There is no need to get on the foredeck, and she will be easily handled by two people, making the element of suprise even greater!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This going to cause a lot of head scratching with sailors and designers alike . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part 2 will come when we have seen her on the water - in 2013 I guess.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See Dudley Dix's Blog at <a href="http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/2012/06/more-didi-29-retro.html">http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/2012/06/more-didi-29-retro.html</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">See Roy's blog at <a href="http://www.ckdboats.blogspot.com/">ckdboats.blogspot.com</a> for details on the build as it happens, and the kits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See more at: http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-rig-for-didi-29-retro.html</span>justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248610640964334321.post-43847232565943511952012-04-29T15:28:00.000+02:002014-06-30T08:43:39.785+02:00Shaped by Wind and Wave<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boats and boat-design have fascinated me for quite some time. There simply is no more interesting mix of art and science in existence. Nothing more likely to generate a good discussion about form and function, all mixed up with adventure, adrenalin, tradition and good living! I was therefore very happy to receive a copy of Dudley Dix's new book - in which he explains his personal perspectives on design priorities, and how they have been formed through his own experiences of living, sailing, and boat building in the "Cape of Good Hope", a.k.a. Cape of Storms!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with any noble pursuit - sport, fine wine, oil painting, or the design of a classic yacht - the enjoyment of the product is enabled by an appreciation of the approach used, what the designer/maker was trying so hard to achieve, and how he/she got there. In the case of a yacht - it is a fascinating experience just to see the design - before the boat is even built or sailed - to see the how the designer has creatively tackled the multitude of challenges inherent in every boat design. Every case is a complex mix of priorities including considerations for cost, seaworthiness, comfort, manageability, type of build, performance, looks and many others. Just the shape of the hull underbody is an adventure story on its own! (Ch. 5)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn't it all done by computer these days? Err- no. When a yacht designer finishes at Westlawn or University or similar, they can tell how it float, balance and eprform, and not break hopefully, (plus a good few examples of good practise), but the philosophy and style of their designs is very much a product of personal creativity and personal values . . . </span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what Dudley's book is essentially about - what his values and priorities on yachts and boats are, and the sensible design techniques for meeting them. All this is underpinned from the perspective of an ordinary man working on a budget, maybe home-building. Much of it is related to his personal experience of growing up and sailing in the very challenging waters off the Cape of Good Hope, of dinghy sailing in the fresh winds of Zeekoevlei as a kid, his passion for surfing, and the experience of building his own keelboats. Then it goes on to how his career as a designer took off following the success of his first design "Concept Won" - which gained him a major international award, and gave him a basis for many of the very successful designs that followed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As someone who has good experience of some Dudley's boats (ref the rest of this blog!), and has sailed in the same waters, I was able to relate directly to all of it, and was compelled to read the whole book from start to finish in just two days (its quite a lot of book).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a reference book, the content is simple and very easy to read, ideal for the ordinary yachtsman or boatowner. It is not full of mathematics, rather it explains the elements of yacht design at a practical and concept level. It won't make you a designer, but it will give give you a very good insight into the elements of yacht design, including hulls, rigs and most inbetween. For prospective and amateur boat builders, it is a must - with great chapters on choice of material, building techniques, even options for turning the hull. For anyone sailing around the south tip of Africa (common these days), Chapter 18 is a must. This is a fine piece of reality, concise but sobering, and for some folk will justify the book on its own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also a chapter on Ant Steward, the only man to who sailed around the world on an open boat one of Dudley's designs - a modified TLC19. Certainly Dudley cannot be blamed for this idea - Ant was on his own with this umm - amazing endeavour - but Dudley is uniquely placed to describe this feat, which must rate as possibly the most daring sailing challenge ever undertaken, along with the strengths and limitations of the boat used. In my opinion, there is nothing quite like this for bringing out the real priorities and needs of a sailing boat on rough waters . . . . its not called "Shaped by Wind and Wave" by accident!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It now has pride of place in my boat library, right alongside Dave Gerr's "The Nature of Boats", Adlard Coles (Peter Bruce) "Heavy Weather Sailing", Tom Cunliffe's "The Complete Yachtmaster", Joshua Slocum's "Sailing Alone around the World", and Frank Robb's "Handling Small Boats in Heavy Weather" (even though it is a bit dated now). I have dozens of others but these are the "must reads".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At USD 30 its very reasonable - copies are available from lulu.com - details on Dudley's website at </span><a href="http://www.dixdesign.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.dixdesign.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. An e-reader version is also available now.</span>justin.phillips@mweb.co.zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08886333533740631827noreply@blogger.com