1/4 ton cup 30yrs on

[Guest]

Hi Richard- Sounds like interesting reading.....Will look forward to getting a copy when your completed.

 

Hopefully a number of the old boats will resurface....I think a matter of tracking people down and getting them motivated.

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Things come a little slower at times. Tiny Dancer was the other Harmonic off the CD moulds. Anyone know where she is now? Built by a uy Williams I think.

[Quarterback 1]

Jack Williams built the Harmonic 24 GRP boats at marmony yachts in Tauranga

the first 3 were moulded ply and raced it the 1975 series.

CD and Tiny Dancer were built as one offs by thier owners one being Jack Taylor of Howick a boatbuilder.

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Sorry forgot the name. He apparently built TD off the moulds for CD. CD was built by a furniture maker, now in Featherston of all places, hence the supherb attention to detail in her build.

[figaro 0]

From the DB yachting annual 1974 13 boats

Demon Tweaker Atkinson.

Fantzipantz Farr.

Straight laced Farr.

Boomer Entrican.

Scherzo Wagstaff.

Presto Wagstaff.

Shindig Wagstaff.

Donut S&S.

Ganymede S&S.

Apollo Wagstaff.

Gumdigger Wagstaff.

Halinka Lambert.

Blood shot Brooke.

 

Dont no if this is the order they finished in(how it was listed in the book).

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Cant find 1975 but in 1976 Jack Williams built "FIGARO" out of harmony yachts and raced her . 25 boats that year listed in finishing order.

Magic Bus Whiting.

Pinto Farr.

Plonk Farr.

Penny Farrthing Farr.

Clockwork Mull.

Far out Farr.

Geordie Farr.

Quartz Farr.

Overdraft Farr.

Born free 2 Farr.

Jellybean Farr.

Delerium Farr.

Amalgam Mull.

Barefoot Lidgard.

Trinity Wagstaff.

Bumblebee Farr.

Pocket edition Farr.

Heavens above Peterson.

The Sting Holland.

Figaro Wagstaff.

Wild violet Wagstaff.

Stoned ranger Mull.

Just apples Whiting.

Right on Salthouse.

Slippery feathers Spencer.

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The Sting is moored off omokoroa and is unofficially for sale, in anyone is interested I know the owner.

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oh and it's pretty run down so could be a bargin (or not ) for someone

[SloopJohnB 323]

I have mentioned before somewhere that there are several here in Napier.

 

Veni vidi vic - ??????

Hot Pepper - Peterson??

Sheeka - wooden Farr

??????? - glass Farr

Sweathog - Whiting

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I am fairly sure that Fantzipantz won in 1973.

 

Demon Tweaker won once, so 1974 sounds right.

 

I think a boat named 727 won in 1975 before being renamed 45 South and winning the Quarter Ton Cup in France.

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1976 was a great year for the 727! Ten in the top 12. But Magic Bus was all conquering...

[B00B00 310]

I used to own the slipery feathers, a Spencer quarter toner, the last one on the last.

Brought it after the boat had gone on the rocks, keel was ripped off and it needed a whole new bottom. Had the boat for a few years then upgraded to the SR26.

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Bullit sailing in Tahiti

[Guest]

The following boats sailed in the ¼ ton worlds series 1980 at Panmure

There will be a regatta for old ¼ tonner next March

 

3112 Bashful

3642 Strawberry letter (Sailed with Upto26 in 2009- new owner I think now...Not sure on their details though)

Hi flyer (Sailed with Upto26 in 2009- new owner I think now...Not sure on their details though)

 

4420 Anchor challenge

3311 Black Fun Current owner Bruce Leydon Wellington

4439 Blue berry

3628 Russel Pumper (Alley Kan)

2959 Home Grown

4453 Chiefweazel

3951 Ms Prem Plastic (Qantel ) 4 sale

4320 Hellaby

4223 Hatchway Hummer

4274 Hot Number

3542 Samson (Solid Citizen)

2163 Pinto ( Haven't seen pinto for ages)3650 Smokey Joe current owner Toles

4455 Continental Fun (Sea Fun)

 

Would be interesting to find out how many are still about, and how much work would be needed to get them on the water.

 

Hatchway Hummer has been in Dunedin for about 15 years.Now called sheik yer bouttii.Has been sailing every 2nd week during the winter.

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Blackfun taken in Wellington last weekend 21 August. This is from my phone and I have a lot more digital camera shots but still on the other camera. It's been a major - a much bigger project than the guys first anticipated but she's looking mighty fine. Paint on the deck due this week after fairing.

 

It's fantastic to see a bit of NZ history being fully restored and revamped.

[Guest]

Figaro always struggled with a too small a main. It made her very sticky in the light.

Re Black Fun. Is that an extended deck to flush transom I spy??

[Guest]

Yup.

[Guest]

Extending the deck was a brilliant move on smokey Joe- Made the back of the boat far more useful....Plenty of room to drink rum on after the racing.

 

Also handy rope lockers etc.

 

Whats the chance the old keel from black fun might be available for sale....?

[Guest]

Not much I would say - thats me cutting it off with a sabre-saw when we couldn't get it out to drop her on a trailer to go down south last year.....Boat Butcher Extraordinaire. Roy Dickson was there and said he would only let me near Playbouy if I wasn't carrying a skill saw.

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Thanks Boatworks for the Black Fun rebuild photo, looking like a pretty thorough rebuild. Interested to know much fairing is going on under the stern, I think they were going to fair out the crease a bit.