This was my fathers boat (Bill McCook), a one off forerunner to all the Lotus yachts designed by Alan Wright. Among the very first fat bottom boats built in New Zealand by Phillip Wilson and finished by my father at home, actually 10.5 metres. The boat was revolutionary and obsolete at time of construction. Designed to break displacement wave, but built of heart kauri timber, just as fiber glass was coming to the fore. launched in 1977 - I was 11
Had around 400 placings in Harbor racing, completing inaugural two handed round the North Island and versatile as a race boat and cruising. Alla
