looking to buy a little Contessa from 1973 for general messing about in...cruising, WAGS, vintage yacht regattas. New challenge for me will be singlehanding...always done short-handed on our family boats but not singlehanding before now.
Wondering whether anyone has any experience and/or information about these little boats. Especially about the hull re osmosis, etc?
Lovely little boat that we probably all lusted after in the 70's. Peter Coles version of a folkboat really. Right era for osmosis but they are cheap boats these days and really there has never been a boat world wide lost to osmosis. Buy it and enjoy.
I used to sail on a friends Contessa on Lake Macquarie many years ago. It was a lovely little boat and sailed very well.
He used to sail it down south as far a Sydney and up to Broughton Island from time to time and never seemed to have any problems doing so.
Yes, it was the osmosis period but any osmosis that might have formed from it's construction would well and truly shown itself by now and been taken care of.
They were a very well thought out boat and nice to sail.
Yes, SirGallivant, however, the Contessa she sailed was of English design and build. The one I am looking at was designed by Australian Peter Cole and built ...I think...Central Coast region in the 70s.
