Daysi Tragesser

This was part of the survey work and when we went to the HBBY (hout bay boat yard) this morning to be lifted clear of the water.


The boat was built in just two years and from one of our kits, what a fine job the builder made!

 The keel bulb is none standard but was designed by Dudley Dix and around a lead bulb mold that
the builder had the use of.

The International antifoul looks fair for 18 months in the water.

A high pressure water wash soon removed the small amount of marine growth from the under water area.

The HBBY did the lift, powerwash and re launch all in the same day.

Roy

This boat passed the survey with ease and was sold, we do have another similar design for sale , please contact me for details.

Well the Vertue 26 on the left is a classic, the Dix 43 on the right which is also a wood construction is nearly fifteen years old now so has some way to go before its classic status.


I have no idea how long the carvel planking took to do on the smaller yacht but I know the hull on the right took one man six weeks to assemble. The Vertue 26 is now fifty years old and the Dix 43 will be fifteen years old next January 17th 2015.

Not actually a www.www.com kit but we could make a plan on a bulkhead kit set.

Classic yachts, what are they?

Well if we cancel out the plastic new ones and all of the more modern multihulls but not the Wharram cats, we are looking on average at a 50% split of what we can call a classic. Any yacht say twenty plus years old will soon be a classic, even one design racing yachts like the local L26 are at thirty years old very much classics, I suppose its a mind thing?

Roy

Seen here and from the lens of a Canon G11 digital camera is a traditional built carvel planked fishing boat under a major restoration.


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Roy

Today we have rain, lots of it and up to 50mm predicted?


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The yacht is a Dix 43 in a wood/epoxy build, some upgrades were done to the primary winches in the cockpit, the mainsail cover also.

The helmsman with suitable experience can sail this yacht by himself (or her) ,  the mainsail will need a man forward to reef it but with that done, the yacht has all the sail controls in the spacious cockpit.


The as new Lewmar sheet winches are sized 58:1  and 44:1 ratio, giving  an easy job when handling the headsails. They are both alloy and self tailing, the forward winch controls either the Staysail or the Harken series three head sail furler, a jamber backs up the black Sampson braid control line when the Staysail is in use.

The rig is a Cutter but the inner forestay can be unhooked and lashed down to one side, meaning that even in lighter airs the Genoa will tack easily.

The break in the winter rains allowed a little sun tanning but not today as its pouring with rain!

Roy.

Nice weather, no breeze really the wind indicator was doing 360s at some times !


More wind would have been handy but rather the calm then too much wind.



The club presidents boat, Chris Sutton was also Commodore of the HBYC for a number of years.

Yacht She, an ex TBA boat was there as well.



Yendo brought his Simonis 35 around Cape Point the day before, he had been at the FBYC for their Spring Regatta.

On our way back to the Hout Bay Harbour, Athol is putting the fenders back over the side.

Nice day!

Roy

Actually this was yesterday but the weather is much the same today again!

The view is across Hout Bay in South Africa, the Sentinal is the name for the pointed cliff on the far side and behind that is Karbonklberg.

Read wikipedia for more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbonkelberg


Bantam pick up by Ford, the 1600i petrol engine by Mazda and the picture by me.
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Roy McBride