For composite boat enthusiasts and those looking for some adventure up North!

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/bayview/sail-boats/yacht-for-sale-20000/1183429439

wow sounds cheap

Pics of Pathfinder now in NW USA
Pathfinder 1st, Runaway 2nd and Rainbow 3rd
NZ clean sweep 1971 Hobart
Rainbow now restored in NZ.
Up to someone!

Ramona said..

Ringle said..

Ramona said..
For composite boat enthusiasts and those looking for some adventure up North!

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/bayview/sail-boats/yacht-for-sale-20000/1183429439

Very nice! One would need to take a good wooden boat shipwright with you

It would be no different to looking at a fiberglass boat except there is no chance of osmosis. Soft spots possible under the cockpit etc from freshwater but they will be easy to see and rectify. Triple skin Kauri and epoxy is seriously good.
I have asked the owner for more pictures of the cockpit area etc. When I said adventure up North I was referring to sailing her South!

You only have to get it as far as Brisbane, drop it off with BOTY for a few months!

Ramona said..

Ringle said..

Ramona said..
For composite boat enthusiasts and those looking for some adventure up North!

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/bayview/sail-boats/yacht-for-sale-20000/1183429439

Very nice! One would need to take a good wooden boat shipwright with you

It would be no different to looking at a fiberglass boat except there is no chance of osmosis. Soft spots possible under the cockpit etc from freshwater but they will be easy to see and rectify. Triple skin Kauri and epoxy is seriously good.
I have asked the owner for more pictures of the cockpit area etc. When I said adventure up North I was referring to sailing her South!

I'll crew for you.

Only one that matters there is prop and shaft.
Rest is nothing.
it will be a motor sail home unless you are going west about
I can give you some headsails
just might need some hanks.
Someone has to save it sitting up there before the next summer.

Get out in the EAC and ride it down.

...with a very thick wallet and no termagant behind him.

lydia said..
Pics of Pathfinder now in NW USA
Pathfinder 1st, Runaway 2nd and Rainbow 3rd
NZ clean sweep 1971 Hobart
Rainbow now restored in NZ.
Up to someone!

Pedant switch "ON".....

It was Wai Aniwa that was third, in the hands of Bouzaid. He had sold Rainbow II to Bermuda soon after she won the OTC in Heligoland. He then switched to sailing the newer and bigger Carter design Wai Aniwa which was provided by a sponsor, Ray Walker. Wai Aniwa is still sailing and racing in NZ.

Pedant switch "off"....sort of.

Incidentally, one of the accounts of the Kiwi trials for the 1971 One Ton world championships notes that Runaway had been measured just before the trials and had to cut her sail area down dramatically. She performed very well later in the series, as she did at times when chartered to Germany for the world titles.