MAGNESIUM said..
Massive price reduction
fast cruiser if you can handle the draft.

www.boatsonline.com.au/boats-for-sale/used/sailing-boats/farr-65-the-original-brindabella-racing-yacht/336662

I think she is worth as much Leo paid for Tally Ho.

if you wanted to throw money at it, might be interesting what she would rate on IRC

get her for $40k...spend $150k on her...could be then worth - $100k ?

cheers,

9 tonnes of lead is worth a bit. Time to recycle I think. That is the only value she has left and as mentioned sitting in the marina is just dead money.

Sailing NV on YouTube bought a huge race boat the problems that guy has been through with his family onboard are horrendous.
now they have problems with rigging and carbon mast no money for new sails draws 13ft and they live on anchor .

I suppose if you're in the 60 foot boat market and you don't want to build one or pay a million bucks taking something like that and refitting it actually de-risks the project quite a lot.

The cost of building anything these days seems to have skyrocketed, and with this all the hard work is done.

PacificStar said..
if you wanted to throw money at it, might be interesting what she would rate on IRC

get her for $40k...spend $150k on her...could be then worth - $100k ?

cheers,

$150k really try about $750k
anyone want to take a guess at a new mainsail or headsail.

cammd said..
I dunno, I think a foam cored hull is not designed or built to last 37 years. Especially one that has been raced hard offshore.

Well, years ago I asked John McConaghy and (I think) the Ulrechts who built Brinders how foam/carbon boats were doing. They both said that they had basically an infinite life span unless accidents occurred. At that stage the early ones were only 18 years old or so but some of them had already done lots of miles on the ocean and on shipping cradles, like Sagacious V. Macca said that he had been asked to go through her after her second trip to the northern hemisphere. He found a coin-sized patch each side near the mast that needed a touch so he mixed epoxy in a syringe and fixed it there and then.

Foam sandwich boats have been around since the ‘50s. Boomerang VII, the first big foam boat in Australia, survived 50 plus years including a bunch of Hobarts so how did she survive over 37 years, especially since cores, laminates and resins were so crude then? Even on of my Lasers is now about fifty years old and I don’t think it has any issues.

So what foam sandwich boats are having problems? What are the corresponding single-skin boats doing? What is the fatigue like when bending forces in a skinny single skin hull put the compression loads so close to the tension loads?

Chris 249 said..

cammd said..
I dunno, I think a foam cored hull is not designed or built to last 37 years. Especially one that has been raced hard offshore.

Well, years ago I asked John McConaghy and (I think) the Ulrechts who built Brinders how foam/carbon boats were doing. They both said that they had basically an infinite life span unless accidents occurred. At that stage the early ones were only 18 years old or so but some of them had already done lots of miles on the ocean and on shipping cradles, like Sagacious V. Macca said that he had been asked to go through her after her second trip to the northern hemisphere. He found a coin-sized patch each side near the mast that needed a touch so he mixed epoxy in a syringe and fixed it there and then.

Foam sandwich boats have been around since the ‘50s. Boomerang VII, the first big foam boat in Australia, survived 50 plus years including a bunch of Hobarts so how did she survive over 37 years, especially since cores, laminates and resins were so crude then? Even on of my Lasers is now about fifty years old and I don’t think it has any issues.

So what foam sandwich boats are having problems? What are the corresponding single-skin boats doing? What is the fatigue like when bending forces in a skinny single skin hull put the compression loads so close to the tension loads?

I would just be worried about moisture in the core but if that doesn't ever happen than I stand corrected.

That must be a different boat Mag? Brindabella was a Jutson no?

Yeah apparently I can't read......!😂

PhilY said..
You are thinking of the one after this, the Farr was the first Brindabella for George Snow.

By coincidence I just found some photos I took on/from the Brindabella (the 2nd) from the maxi regatta prior to the 98 Sydney to Hobart. The weather went downhill from there.