Good watch that sydchris. Lots of nostalgia from the times.
Its obviously a good boat with very little damage considering the water it travelled through and the knockdowns. 360 to pop back up and keep going is amazing.
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I've been watching that one for a while. There's a video of the RTW race on board at .
Good video thanks.
Select to expand quoteRamona said..sydchris said..
I've been watching that one for a while. There's a video of the RTW race on board at .
Good video thanks.
It was Don & Margie McIntyre that bought a boat called Shanty,, which became "Pink Lady"..Sponsoring Jessica Watson in her Circumnavigation.
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One of the sweetest 24 footers you'll ever find!!
Built to last by my dad, although sold before he launched her.
Great little weekender and coastal racer
Anyone who is a racer of an older vintage might remember 'Mozzie' and 'Crimper' that were gun JOG boats in their day and flush deck. Well this boat is the same hull with a cabin based around the Northshore 27!
www.boatsalestas.com.au/sail-monohulls/westerly-gk24-pania/113684/
Superb craftsmanship!
Absolutely a real credit to your dad rumble
Thanks guys!
Funny thing is he never got to sail on her till I tracked her down recently. I organized with the owners to take him out for his birthday and although we just motored around the bay as it was howling, the smile on his face was priceless. Also current owners learnt a lot, like 'all that blackwood came out of a 1850's house in Launceston, it was the mantle piece '
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One of the sweetest 24 footers you'll ever find!!
Built to last by my dad, although sold before he launched her.
Great little weekender and coastal racer
Anyone who is a racer of an older vintage might remember 'Mozzie' and 'Crimper' that were gun JOG boats in their day and flush deck. Well this boat is the same hull with a cabin based around the Northshore 27!
www.boatsalestas.com.au/sail-monohulls/westerly-gk24-pania/113684/
Wow Rumblefish, that is something special.
I wouldn't come out of that V berth, Id be lost just drinking it all in.
Kinda epitomises for me the small boat era in Oz, a perfect family weekender, can boogie still and can handle itself if it gets rough.
Thanks for the link!
SB
Edit: Congrats Selkie!!
If you want to sell a yacht this is the sort of ad that will work!
www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f152/1983-sabre-38-47-500-miami-fl-a-couple-s-cruising-boat-211377.html
you know how someone was talking about the S&S 39 in melb Mark Twain ................I think she in the S@H this year !!
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you know how someone was talking about the S&S 39 in melb Mark Twain ................I think she in the S@H this year !!
The blog says Michael spies brought her
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Location Cairns and unregistered trailer makes the Wildfire hard to sell.
I've got a boat trailer rego that fits to the T but the wife says no!
The Westerly 24 is a real nice piece! Lots of care and love. +1
I am fond of Adams's yachts and their modern version, the Radfords. The alum or steel construction makes sense for cruising especially in coral infested waters.
Radfords are pretty good boats, Don McIntyre's Radford 50 is the proof. (thanx for the utube flick!)
The Adams 13 'Antuka' is a clean and nice boat but for 90k is a bit dear. No matter how much was spent on it, it is still a 1981 boat, and dark inside. I like the heater thou, a must for Tasmania.
The other 13, 'Friday' is a whoooa! after what was spent on it, though, it's a bit sharp for 99k being a 1998 build and no cruiser.
Neither of them has the retractable tiller, both has a balanced rudder vulnerable to the max. when daggerboard is fully up!
For that sort of money one could have this 1993 alum Radford, almost twice,
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/radford-10-6/218679
or this, 2011, made also of alum for 90k. Both of the Radfords got a draught of 1.9 meters which is not a cruiser friendly draught.
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/radford-11m-performance-cruising-yacht/209510
The interior of the above mentioned Carter 37 and Jarkan 39 are my kind of modern interiors with a bit of timber for contrast but not the full timber layout, God forbid. Just thinking of the varnishing makes me scream in pain.
I remember my Adams's timber bits and l cringe. It might be beautiful but l don't like spending my time working while l should be sailing or relaxing.
Here is one for consideration for much less dough, however, one's gotta spend on it at least 20-25k to make it viable:https://yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/adams-35/225232
or this one which is one of my old boats l used to race on:
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/adams-10-6/224617
Antuka and Friday look good but I think we should leave Beatrice where she is.
Guy named Brian used to run a 50 ft Adams/Radford out of Bundy over to the Chesterfield Reefs and Noumea.
On the way back one time with just 2 aboard he told me he was doing 32 knots off the waves with virtual forefinger and thumb control on the tiller and huge spray waves off the bow.
An alloy yacht. 
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For that sort of money one could have this 1993 alum Radford, almost twice,
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/radford-10-6/218679
Like the look of the smaller Radford. The 1.9 metre draft makes it slightly difficult if you have to fight over slipway bookings with other yachts with equally deep drafts and they are getting more common. Looks like it has running backstays though which might limit it's appeal.
sirgallivant
"or this one which is one of my old boats l used to race on:
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/adams-10-6/224617"
You weren't the crew member who fell off one day and swam to the start boat?
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For that sort of money one could have this 1993 alum Radford, almost twice,
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/radford-10-6/218679
Like the look of the smaller Radford. The 1.9 metre draft makes it slightly difficult if you have to fight over slipway bookings with other yachts with equally deep drafts and they are getting more common. Looks like it has running backstays though which might limit it's appeal.
Hi Romona,
Would you mine explaining the reasons why the two issues may exist?
PhilY, no it was either Gordon, (+ RIP) or another guy Jim, well before that because it happened twice. I was not present, thou.
However, I was sitting next to my son when the mast broke at Pittwater. Hence the brand new mast and rig in 2016.
Cisco, what you got against Beatrice?
This one, a real shoal draught 13 - GRP not alum - with 'proper' sliding tiller not just daggerboard is the real cruiser amongst them all.
(I really don't understand the idea on the other two 13s, the daggerboard does not mix well with a balanced rudder which is hanging down well below the level of the keel-stump catching lines and coral and sundry 
and no way one could do with those boats what is done on the picture)
It was winning races and championships when l was crewing on it. A real easy boat to live with, narrow hull as Two Dogs pointed it out but not as small as it would be cramped for cruising. Well, it's not a Mottle ! but not small either. Unless one intended to carry a whole tribe, plenty for two+two, thou.
I love this boat, it sailed really well in all conditions.
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Cisco, what you got against Beatrice?
I like Adams 35s but that one is at Langkawi, has a pretty ugly solid dodger and I suspect she may be a fair bit over the six ton mark. I have gone off steel boats also due to their high maintenance factor.
Actually it's 7, 5 tons. A cold chisel and a big hammer would take care of that monstrocity, well spotted!
You would love this blast from the past though, l am sure: A BABA 30
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Hi Romona,
Would you mine explaining the reasons why the two issues may exist?
It's Ramona and I'm not sure what issues you are referring to.
New Zealand money so it's not real money!
www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1853172121
The trailer may be good for someone, but it weighs 700kg and has a GVM of 2000kg, so it's not going to take an Etchells at 1560kg.
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looks the goods !! is this going to be your NZ connection selkie . ...........did you by the VS 34 ?
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looks the goods !! is this going to be your NZ connection selkie . ...........did you by the VS 34 ?
This was very high on the list Sands.
In the end, I decided on this:
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/van-de-stadt-36/224067
Survey 14 Jan then, all things being equal, antifoul, engine and saildrive service, then home to Brisbane in February.
