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not the dodger we put on, was canvas, i think, i'd buy her, trubble is i had a stroke
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that is me with dark hair and Alan Paulsen one of my great men, the man missing in Ralph Fergesen an excellent man too
we never had CAD generated plate developments in those days and more importantly we never had OSH
the pieces of light strip are to temporarily space the frames
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Caper was moored at Seaview marina and owned by a Wellington family until about 6 years ago. She was used very little and I think health issues eventually forced her sale. An astonishingly nice boat. I believe Caper was still in survey when she was sold.
I spotted her in Fiji last year at Vuda Point marina. Still looking quite magnificent too.
Nice to know this, thanks, John became a real friend, learned much from this brilliant engineer, he was a founder at Becker Carter Furneaux Hollings
I was never ever a fan of stringers, neither was John . We built the Euro way
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10% of the people catch 90% of the fishWhat's with all these people catching fish?????? What am I doing wrong?????
True enuff
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The world is littered with old race yachts some in very very good condition but the limiting Factor is their deep-draft I can see her staying where she is for ever
as an aluminium yacht builder I would never touch her with a 40 foot barge pole I know the work involved
they built her 4 line honours but she was never competitive enough being that much shorter than the maxi's of the day I remember the day she left on a ship for England
I also had my first yacht down there at Kings Wharf I think it was the day Outward Bound sailed for England I remember Wheels dropping a 4 litre pot of paint from the masthead onto the cork deck what a bloody tragedy that was
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Just stick anotice on the boards at the Clubs
Akarana, Squadron, Ponsonby Sailing
There should be Wednesay sailing in evenings
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Oi! Back off on Huntly you lot, some of us need to live there!
Where else can you still buy a 4 beddie on 1/4 acre for under 300k? And commute to the land of jafa every day.
you have a point, I dunno if I can afford to move back
what would my place be worth in Ak
well here 800k maybe , near Mooloolaba 5500sq/m Roos come in too
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When I saw it, it was underway on the water. It sat like it had a she elephant in the back. It didn't look pretty.
smile, maybe they never heard of trim tabs, many do not but most planing boats need em, either for fore and aft or beam winds as you know yourself, trims tabs can flatten out most any boat, cheers, maybe with a setup like that they are new Kiwis:))
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Which Cape 40's did you build?
Caper for John Hollings and Cape Providence for Tony Evens
Caper was the smallest Lloyds yacht to be built in survey in NZ
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this was my last build ALAN did most of the design, I did contruction dwgs, eng dwgs arch, cockpit, belting design sheer cap, which is solid from a die I had made in China
Everything was done in house except rig
Merv Green did the woodwork fitout
I started her in 99,spec for the NA market
She sold into Gold Coast
#Got hammered in a Tasman gale blowing 35 plus for 3 days on nose
At 18500kg at departure that is with her long range fuel tanks of 1500l she is not slow 8000 kg lead in keel scheel type
The second owners report shen was always first into port in the Darwin to Indo rally ahead of the cats which do slow up loaded in cruise trim
I built her in al al, 8mm bottom
I first started building steel Yachts in the 19 seventies then sometime early in the eighty's I went to alloy yachts and started engine rooms with the then fellow worker Tony Hambrook who went on to be managing director of the company I left because there were certainly was not room for two of us and I wanted to try my hand at building with my own company
I built quite a few Mummery yachts I built two of the Cape forties and one spec Marimba the same as Eric wing had but welengthened to the boat out to 34 feet with a sugar scoop and it was in aluminium not in steel I wish I could locate that both because it was a lovely send keelerand I would love to buy it as I no longer have the energy to build
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What a strange statement
It (not she) is not at all by the stern, trim is normal
However it is spoon entry, kinda flat ike the house behind and will pound in even a slight chop
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Miss NZ
Yes I do know as I had company building alloy yachts in nz since 85
Stopped in 2000
I used Intenational Paints tank liner
No failures
Simply I sanded the tank plating before fabrication
The acid washed then painted iton
Search millennium 55 sailing my last build on youtube
mummery/hearn millennium 55
in MarineTalk
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drew something easier, i could take flare out for people without ability to build, not selling, gifting, 13m, very stiff sailing boat, good entry, will not pound as some very expensive French offerings do
8mm plate 6mm deck, very long range tanks