philstar 61 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Sad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tuffyluffy 76 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Oh what a shame. I remember meeting him as a kid when he was building NZ Endeavour (?) in a shed in Port Chalmers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kiwi_jon 26 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 ^ NZI Enterpise NZ Endeavour was Dalts entry in the 93/94 Whitbread. Sad to hear about Digby Taylor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deep Purple 512 Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Enterprise was built in Auckland. I recall seeing the half built shell at the Boatshow. (we had just visited Lion being built) Might have been Outward Bound Nice guy that did a great job on Outward Bound but never had the coins to take on the big boat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tuffyluffy 76 Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Heres the old thread on Outward Bound http://crew.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic/9936-outward-bound/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Crocket 12 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Sad to hear. We only crossed paths a few times, but he wasn't scared to give it a go, whether it was a good idea or not. He had a 1/2 tonner called Delphin, which he took to Noumea in 1980 and did very well. He announced on 1 very drunken night while up there that he was building a boat to go in the next Whitbread, of course nobody believed him, but Outward Bound was launched about 6 months later and the rest is history. He told me a story one night after that race, where they got stuck on the wrong side of a weather system in the Southern Ocean and got so far south that everything froze up. They couldn't reef or do anything to get back north until they could unfreeze the winches, which took nearly all their gas supplies to boil water to pour over them. If my dodgy memory serves me correctly, he came up with a very unique way of building NZI. The ring frames were included in the plug mould and they built a gantry to hold a series of bobbins loaded with pre preg thread that criscrossed all over the plug and wove the cloth in place to form a monocoque internal shell. Unfortunately money let him down on that project, which ultimately led to the demise of the campaign. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
raz88 96 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 That's a shame. He's a distant relative of my family and my father did a bit of racing with him back in the day. they've lost touch over the years though. Sorry to hear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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