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Paper Tiger yacht 14 foot catamaran complete PRICE DROPPED in ARTHURS SEAT, Victoria for sale

Ply wood PT for sale includes all rigging, boat cover, beach trolley and registered trailer. -Boat in good condition, yellow with recently repainted clear coat deck (has not seen water since). -3 sails -Trailer is in fair condition Good boat, was minimum weight when purchased 4 years ago and has high potential for racing. Feel free to ask questions/ arrange inspection. Please no scammers. Payment on pickup only

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Enjoy the freedom of sailing well-equipped cruising yachts, without the cost and maintenance hassle of private ownership., paper tiger – morgan 42.

Naval architect, ocean racer and yacht builder Charlie Morgan launched his career with back-to-back wins racing his own design 42-foot yawl in Southern Ocean Racing Circuit competition. Forming Morgan Yachts he used his racing experience to design fast bluewater cruisers for a line which quickly became one of the most popular of the era.

Our Morgan 42 is a production sloop version of his original yawl design. Prior to our acquisition, Paper Tiger was harbored her entire life at West Basin Marina in St. Joseph, Michigan, a popular haven for other classic Morgan sloops. Owned in recent years by a former Morgan Yachts worker, she has cruised Lake Michigan extensively, was raced regularly and successfully in local and southern Lake Michigan yacht club races, and has been a frequent competitor in the annual Chicago-to-Mackinac race.

Renamed in honor of Morgan’s own yacht in her transition to our fleet, Paper Tiger is unmistakably Charlie Morgan - seaworthy and fast with eye-turning lines: low freeboard, bow and stern overhangs and sweeping graceful sheer. Easy to fall in love with, a signature element of her allure, as with other Charlie Morgan originals, is architectural honesty. Her elegant beauty is a direct result of her core sailing function.

Paper Tiger offers space and speed advantages over smaller boats. When you bring guests or plan on spending time aboard, you’ll appreciate her large cockpit and spacious cabin, amply trimmed with genuine teak and brass.  Getting away for a weekend cruise, you’ll be happy to have the extra speed. On your mooring or sailing Chicago waters, you’ll be surprised at the attention her emerald green hull attracts. If you have the experience, you can be her skipper!

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Charley Morgan — 1929-2023

Sailing legend Charles E. Morgan (Charley to his friends, which was just about everyone) passed away January 6, 2023 on Treasure Island, Florida, at the age of 93, mere hours after the passing of his wife Maurine.

The following Good Old Boat article that I wrote in 2005 tells the high-points of Charley’s illustrious career but, he deserves emphasis for a few of the most notable: 

• Longtime designer, builder of custom and production sailboats, and sailmaker.
• Probably the only person in the long and storied history of the America’s Cup to design, finance, build, skipper, and make the sails for a Cup boat —  Heritage .
• Winner of two SORC (Southern Ocean Racing Conference) events in boats he designed, built, and skippered (1961 and 1962).
• Revolutionized the Caribbean charter trade with the Morgan Out Island 41, of which more than 1,000 were built.

And a genuinely good guy. RIP, Charley. 

– Dan Spurr

Charley Morgan, left, with Paul Benfield, owner of the Tibbets Boatyard. Behind them is a Morgan Out Island 51.

He found the best way to win was to build his own boats

Florida, like California, with its eternally warm weather and friendly skies, is a natural place in which to build boats — and was especially so back in the early days of fiberglass when hulls were cured outdoors using sunlight as the catalyst. A cheap labor pool also was available. Boatbuilders sprang up on both Florida coasts — in Miami and in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Many are still there, not on the water where real estate is too expensive but — as in Costa Mesa, California, the Mecca of 1960s fiberglass boatbuilding in this country — inland, back in the dusty, nondescript industrial zones next-door to plumbing and building supplies.

Charles Morgan, born November 17, 1929, in Chicago, now a yacht designer and consultant, hasn’t built a sailboat in many years, but during the late 1960s and through the 1970s he was a formidable force in the exploding fiberglass sailboat industry. He was the designer of Heritage , a 1970 America’s Cup 12-Meter; the designer and builder of Paper Tiger , winner of the prestigious Southern Ocean Racing Circuit (SORC); a production boatbuilder of Morgan Yachts; and an independent designer and consultant. He’s done it all.

Aeronautical engineer

Charley Morgan grew up on the west coast of Florida messing about in boats and went to college close to  home, first to Valencia Junior College in Orlando and then to the University of Tampa, where he planned on being an aeronautical engineer. Following graduation he worked a short time for a telephone company before getting sidetracked by sailing.

“I went queer for boats,” he says, explaining why he took a job at Johnson Sails in Tampa and then opened his own loft, Morgan Racing Sails, in 1952 in St. Petersburg.

At Morgan Yachts’ St. Petersburg, Florida, facility, men worked from scaffolding on boats of all sizes. Note how the decks were moved and positioned from overhead beams.

Rust, shatter, and rot

Charley Morgan’s first boat, Brisote. Demonstrating considerable resourcefulness, she had a Star Boat keel and rudder, a Thistle mainsail, and a modi- fied Penguin sail for a mizzen.

Charley built the hull and deck himself, with help from a young aerospace engineer named John Mills. Charley recalls stopping by the local yacht club one day after finishing work at the shop. “The old savants were sitting in the club, and I came in with resin all over me. One of the guys said, ‘I under- stand it’s got a steel backbone, wooden decks, and a fiberglass hull; you know, it’s gonna rust, shatter, and rot.’ ”

Paper Tiger was perhaps Charley’s most famous design. She won the SORC for two consecutive years, in 1961 and 1962.

Clark Mills, designer of the International Optimist Pram and the Windmill, finished Paper Tiger for Jack Powell, for whom Charley had designed her. But at first Clark was skeptical. When Charley showed him the boat, Clark hooked his thumbs in his pockets, chewed on his stogie, cocked his head, and said, “Well darn- it, I’ve built boats from scratch, kits . . . you name it. But this is the first time someone’s brought me a coat of paint and asked me to build a boat inside it.”

History will not forget what that “coat of paint” accomplished. In an unprecedented feat, Paper Tiger twice took overall SORC honors in 1961 and 1962.

Charley next designed the 28-foot Tiger Cub and began looking for a builder. The search proved futile, so he did the only logical thing he could — he formed Morgan Yachts and built them himself. They were all essentially one-offs, that is, they were not built from the same reusable mold.

The Tiger Cub later became the Columbia 31, but that didn’t happen until after Dick Valdes and Vince Lazzara put Charley’s 40- foot Sabre into production as the Columbia 40, a generous move by Vince which was intended to help Charley launch his own business.

The one-off Rare Aves, the first fiberglass boat Charley ever saw, inspired him to build Paper Tiger out of the same new material. Rare Aves still sails today from her home port in the Florida Keys.

Lost the Circuit

The speedy centerboarder had nearly won the 1964 SORC and looked to be a good bet for the general market. “We won the Nassau Race and the Lauderdale Race,” Charley lamented years later, “and still lost the Circuit, if that’s possible.”

Also that year he built what he says was then the world’s largest fiberglass sailboat, the 60-foot Maredea , whose hull form was tank tested. The result: first place in the St. Petersburg-to-Venice, Florida, race.

In 1965 business was so good the company temporarily stopped taking orders. They were building a wide range of boats, from the $995 Wind- mill to a $44,900 45-footer. Gross that year was $1.7 million. Unlike a lot of builders, Charley handled finances well, once remarking, “Nothing leaves that driveway out there unless and until it’s paid for.”

Charley’s childhood friend, Bruce Bidwell, joined him that year and together they introduced the Morgan 34, which the ads described as “an immediately successful racer/cruiser and an attractive, beamy, keel-centerboarder, CCA-style yacht . . . for families for whom yachting is a way of life.”

The Cruising Club of America (CCA) rule attempted to encourage designs that would be safe, comfortable family cruisers as well as decent performers on the racecourse. Notable features included short waterlines (the long overhangs would immerse when heeled to increase sailing length beyond the measured length), large mainsails and small foretriangles (partly because big multispeed winches hadn’t been developed yet). These boats were often yawls because the mizzen staysail was essentially unpenalized by the rating rule. A lot of them were centerboarders because shoal draft was important in Charley’s native waters of south Florida.

Smaller wetted surface

In the Morgan 24, the rudder was separated from the keel-centerboard — a major step forward in yacht design. Charley wasn’t the first to do this, but the Morgan 24’s racing record helped to validate the idea. Not only did the emergence of the fin keel help the boat turn more quickly in prestart maneuvers, it also greatly reduced wetted surface area, which meant less friction and, therefore, faster speeds.

The Morgan 24 is still a good performer by today’s standards, with moderate displacement and shoal draft. And — priced around $5,000 — it’s a terrific value for anyone looking for a boat in this size range.

Morgan 41 Illustration

Other boats to follow included the Morgan 30, 41, and 45, which later was built as the Starrett & Jenks 45. But it was the development of the Out Island series — 28, 33, 36, 41, and 51 — that gave the company a big burst of business.

Charley’s interest in racing never waned, though, and he continued to de- sign and build custom boats. One was Rage , which he, with Halsey Herreshoff as navigator, took to second place in the 1968 Newport-to-Bermuda race.

The Out Island series

“The Morgan Out Island 41,” Charley says, “was the extension of a long study period, where we tried to create a commodious and comfortable tri-cabin arrangement. In 1970 we finally got it worked out — human engineering and ergonomics. We designed and aimed it at cruisers as well as the charter-boat market. We sought input from a lot of companies big and small, including the Moorings and Jack Van Ost [a dentist who became a successful builder of CSY boats for his charter business].

“The boat was designed to compete with the boats being put out by Gulfstar, which were for a new market that Vince Lazzara [who by now had left Columbia in California and started Gulfstar in Florida] had perceived. Our dealers had requested for a long time a boat without a centerboard that was shoal with lots of room; it didn’t need to sail like a rocket. It came out at the Annapolis Boat Show and was an instant sellout. We built, in the first calendar year, over $4 million worth — 120 units. Eventually we built those boats on two lines, with them coming off the combined lines one a day. They number in excess of 1,000.”

In all, Morgan Yachts built more than 40 different production models, beginning with Charley’s trademark centerboarders, the Out Islands, the Henry Scheel-designed 45/46 (originally built by another builder as the Scheel 45), and a number of boats designed to the International Offshore Rule (IOR), including the Morgan 33 ¾-Ton and Morgan 36 One-Ton. Sailing Kit Craft made a number of designs avail- able in kit form because, as Charley says, “there were so many people who wanted to get a hold of one of our boats who couldn’t afford a finished boat.” But along with a handful of other 1970s builders, such as Islander and Columbia, Morgan Yachts dropped the practice because many owner-completed boats were poorly finished, reflecting adversely on the manufacturer.

Retirement day

Charley remembers well the day he retired. It was June 6, 1972, he recalls with certainty. It was easy to see that divorcing himself from the company he’d created was a watershed in his career . . . and life. He’d merged the company into Beatrice Foods four years earlier (1968) and had stayed on as chairman of Morgan Yacht Corporation. But for Charley, like many people, working for a large corporation was difficult after he had been in business for himself.

Later, Beatrice Foods sold Morgan Yachts to Thor Industries. Subsequently, in 1984 it was passed along to Frank Butler and Catalina Yachts, which continued to build the Morgan 38 and the Out Island 41 (Classic 41) for a number of years before finally putting them to bed.

Of Morgan Yachts’ many accomplishments, one that makes Charley positively beam is the boats he built for Disney World long before it got into the cruise business. “There was a time we built the largest fiberglass boats in the world,” he said. “Morgan Yachts designed and built the principal original watercraft for Disney World, a whole fleet of them, the largest of which is around 120 feet — sub- marines, the jungle cruise boats, the steam launches. In all, more than a hundred. It’s exciting the way you can completely create out of glass some- thing that looks like wood; on the submarines we faked the scales and rivets. We created an incredible theatrical appearance for Disney.”

Charley also designed motor yachts such as the West Indian 36, a hover- craft, and Heritage , the last wooden American 12-Meter ( France II was the last in wood among all nations). Alas, Heritage lost to Intrepid in the 1970 defender trials.

Between 1971 and 1984 more than 1,000 Morgan Out Island 41s were built. Later, after Catalina Yachts acquired some Morgan molds, the 41 was resurrected with minor modifications and sold as the Morgan Classic 41.

Way of measuring

Cindy Goebels, reporting in Southwinds magazine, said Charley ex- plained his interest in the America’s Cup thus: “It’s all just another way of measuring yourself. Competitive men always want to know how big they are in relation to others, how they can perform. Dollars are a way of keeping score. There may be other means in a more mature society. Why this? Well, there’s damn little you can justify out- side of wanting to keep on breathing.” Charley Morgan was always a good interview, seldom mincing words.

Morgan Yachts’ St. Petersburg facilities were considered modern and first-class. “We maintained a laboratory and did a lot of outside testing,” Charley says. “We were using balsa cores from the beginning. Later I was a great proponent of Airex. Then came Divinycell, Klegecell, carbon fibers, Kevlar, and the utilization of high- modulus materials. Way back in 1965 and 1966 we were researching work done in the aircraft and aerospace industry. But those materials had no place in yacht building in those days because lightness was not the key- note; the economic issues were more important . . . and the ability to have readily available resources.”

Charley likes to talk about how the advent of fiberglass changed the face of American boating. “You didn’t have to be an extremely wealthy person to think about owning a boat,” he says. “The concept of the non-wasting asset. You could treat ’em and deal ’em like automobiles. You had an orderly market and the burgeoning charter boat and used-boat market. It just altered completely the brokerage firms. Back in the days after the end of World War II, you could count on your fingers the brokerage firms: S&S, Northrop & Johnson. Bang, bang, in one fell swoop, the tides changed and ripped over us.

Dramatic change

“The thing that kept coming through to me was the dramatic change that was made by fiberglass and the huge opportunity given to the American boater.

“Look at the Ensenada Race – all the ones going down to Mexico – huge clusters of boats! In the Great Lakes, the Mackinac Race had a few entries before the war, but bang! At the end of the war they started getting some fiberglass boats on the scene – my word! — you’re looking at 100-boat fleets or better. It made a major change for Americans who wanted to become part of sailing and yachting. Our ad used to say, ‘The past decade’s most exciting new construction medium.’ How prophetic those words were.

“What sort of disturbs me these days is when they tag the sailing boat people as elitist. I like to say that they’re really more dedicated and enthusiastic about their sport and therefore have organized it more so it has the appearance of elitism.

“The only boats I’ve seen break up are some racing boats that were really lightly built, crossing the Stream or something. I’ve traced a few of those stories about boats splitting in two – bull! I’m sure there are some examples, but the truth is that fiberglass is marvelous.”

And of the strength and longevity of fiberglass?

“I hate to tell you how quickly a wooden boat goes down. We crossed the finish line down in Sarasota after getting chewed up in a nor’wester at the crack of dawn. We could see the committee boat in the murk, saw her lights and the farewell marker at Sarasota Pass. We went zooming by, struck the chute and mizzen staysail, jibed over, cranked up the engine, cleaned up the forward deck and started banging through the slop up toward the pass. Dawn had come. I looked up and yelled, ‘Hey, look! There’s some spreaders sticking up out of the water.’ The committee boat broke its line, blew up on the bar, popped like a cantaloupe, and went straight to the bot- tom. Pieces floating; heads bobbing around and lifejackets. She went down that fast. You kidding me?

“Yet I saw a whole night when [the fiberglass sailboat] Inferno sat over on the bricks at Lucaya [Grand Bahama] banging and slamming and scream- ing and moaning on those bricks. My heart was going out to that boat . . . the sea bursting over her. Three days later I saw her hauled out at Spencer’s in Palm Beach, and I went over and got up inside the boat, looked at the keel – gnawed up a little bit. Not bad!”

Another company

Guys like Charley Morgan are never really retired, even though they sometimes think they are. In 1975 he started yet another boatbuilding company, the Heritage Yacht Corporation. Perhaps anticipating the trend toward power, this time he built both fiberglass sailboats and trawler motoryachts. That venture wasn’t as financially successful, however, and he was forced to seek protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. Subsequently, in the early ’80s he served for a short time on staff at Chris-Craft, while the remaining assets of Heritage went to Catalina, which had also bought Morgan Yachts from Thor Industries.

Today, Charley keeps a design studio in his home. Recent projects include two long-range motoryachts, one steel, the other aluminum, by Top- per Hermanson. But, he says, new de- sign commissions have fallen off considerably since 9/11. He says, “I’d love to do a full-powered steel auxiliary for the right person. Totally self-sufficient with watermakers, air-conditioning, whatever they want.” Like a lot of other people in the industry, he sees his aging followers taking an interest in the comforts of motoryachts, but not all want to go to sea without some sort of stick overhead.

To fill his time, Charley is teaching himself painting, taking after, in a reverse sort of way, his son and daughter, who are both artists.

And, of course, he still finds time for sailing. He was active in the local Star fleet until his wife became ill six years ago; he nursed her until her death in February 2001.

But, he says, he’ll do his yacht club’s Mexico race this year, and there’s always the Morgan Invasion, a rendezvous for owners, in which he participates.

Last October, the 19th annual Invasion was held at the Treasure Island Tennis and Yacht Club in Treasure Island, Florida. The event coincided with Charley’s 75th birthday. More than 100 boats participated. Nothing makes a designer or builder happier than seeing his boats still going strong and his owners happy. One of his favorites, Paper Tiger , recently resurfaced in the West Indies,” he says with pride. “And she’s till honkin’.”

So, too, one might add, is Charley Morgan.

Note: This article is a revised version of information included in Heart of Glass: Fiberglass Boats and the Men Who Made Them , by Dan Spurr.

About The Author

Daniel Spurr

Dan Spurr is a contributing editor with Good Old Boat and editor-at-large with Professional Boatbuilder. He is the author of seven books on boats and sailing and was formerly senior editor at Cruising World and the editor of Practical Sailor.

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Here we go folks, --- it will take some time to get miles of photos and information posted, --- but tonight we at least got a start! I'll do my best to keep it all coming. Check back to Custom Classics often! This shot was taken in 1961 as we were were giving the SORC fleet a bloody nose and a torn shirt tail, ... more to come. (ed.) Check the size of that Genoa jib. The old CCA rule let us have a 180% over-lap in those days. We named this one the BIG MAMU and used it up to around 12 knots, - after that we went to one the same size but of heavier fabric. PAPER TIGER'S sails were all made by MORGAN RACING SAILS ... that later would become part of Morgan Yacht Corp. Here we are heading for the "Farewell Marker " in South West pass, Tampa Bay, ... sheets eased a bit with Paper Tiger stretching her legs minutes ahead of the nearest boat in Class C and ahead of many of Class B, ... a day to remember!

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Selling as moving overseas. Very competitive race ready Paper Tiger regularly at front of fleet.

Asking price: $10,000 (negotiable)

Recent major regatta and series results:

·          5 th at 2023 Australian Nationals Titles

·          2 nd at 2023 Queensland State Titles (tied with 1 st and lost on countback)

·          1 st at 2023 Southport Yacht Club Championship Series

·          2 nd at 2022 Southport Yacht Club Championship Series

·          1 st at 2022 Big River Sailing Club Annual Regatta

·          1 st at 2022 and 2023 Southport Yacht Club Summer Passage Series

·          1 st at 2023 Southport Yacht Club Winter Passage Series

·          Designed by Dan Leech (NZ boat designer)

·          Hulls and platform built by Damien Widdy and Gordon Myers, built & commissioned in 2020. Hulls made of 4mm gaboon ply with carbon fiber and foam bulkheads.   

·          Boat fully tuned and race ready.

·          Weight = 48 kg (added removable lead weight blocks to reach class minimum of 50 kg)

·          Kiwi mast with carbon stiffener and S5 North sail designed to suit Kiwi mast bend profile. Will throw in spare mast too.

·          All sail systems included

o    Single continuous mainsheet and traveller system with Ronstan and Harken auto-rachet blocks and Harken carbon blocks

o    Lightweight and stiff boom with mainsheet sleeve system and internal outhaul system

o    Quick release kicker system for easy rig up/down

o    Mast rotation independent of kicker (A-class setup)

o    8:1 Cunningham system with Harken carbon blocks

o    Quick latch and release for main halyard

o    All new mast stays made in 2022 for 2023 Nationals in Queensland

o    Riley sliding gooseneck (flexible to suit various sails)

·          S5 North sail with full carbon fiber battens & loose foot (used for 2 seasons, ~110 hours sailing). Will also throw in a $250 North Sail voucher won at recent Nationals.

·          Carbon fiber centreboards

·          Carbon fiber rudders and rudder stocks

·          Carbon fiber tiller extension

·          North Sails boat cover

·          Foil bag

·          Rudder cover

·          Lightweight aluminium beach dolly/trolley

·          Road Trailer designed for:

o    Single person self-loading bars and roller

o    Double stack setup for towing two boats

o    Mast stacking system for towing 3 masts at a time (perfect for travelling with 2 boats with one spare masts)

o    Large storage with top and rear access

o    Fully registered and road worthy

o    All wheels and hubs in good condition with spare wheel mounted on front of trailer

o    Easy rotate and fold down jockey wheel with rotating height adjuster

o    Long drawbar for easy towing and reversing

o    Have both 50mm and 7/8” trailer hitchers

o    Has been stored in garage most of its life to avoid rust

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Charles Morgan was already well known as a designer of one particularly successful racer, ‘Paper Tiger’, when he started building another of his designs, the TIGER CUB, on his own. But it wasn’t until 1965 when he joined forces with long time friend, Bruce Bidwell, and began to build the successful MORGAN 34. This was followed, most notably, by the MORGAN 24, 30, 41, and 45. The OUT ISLAND 41, introduced in 1970, became legendary as a no-frills, center-cockpit standard, especially in the charter trade. Charles Morgan’s involvement in the company ended in 1972. Since that time, the company was passed from one corporate entity to another, until it came into the hands of Catalina Yachts in 1984. Catalina continued with a few models, including the OUT ISLAND 41, before the Morgan name was retired.

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NZ Paper Tiger Owners Association

The Paper Tiger (PT) is a popular New Zealand designed 4.3 metre racing catamaran and the fleet is highly competitive.

The NZPTOA is the NZ national association for Paper Tigers and is affiliated to Yachting New Zealand (YNZ) and the  Paper Tiger Catamaran International Association  (PTCIA).

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BOATS FOR SALE

This page is a service to website visitors. Evans Bay Yacht & Motor Boat Club do not participate in the actual sale of items or the transaction itself, nor do we act as an agent for either party. ​​​​​​​This is purely an advertising page provided by the Club.

Farr 6000 - Soliel

Great design by NZ designer Farr, sails well but also a safe holiday family boat. Great for racing or camping. See reviewhttps:// www.farrtraileryachts.org/farr-6000/boat-review

It hasn't been used much in the last few years but is sound and dry inside. It needs either a new mainsail or significant repairs hence the lower price that other Farrs advertised but the spinnaker and foresail in good condition. It also needs a new external handle for the keel lift and some work on the wooden access panels.

Comes with a 8hp two stroke engine always washed through after use and stored inside and hasn't been used since the last service but hasn't got a fuel tank or hose.

The trailer is registered and warranted and has just had over $4000 spent on it.

See full details on Trade Me: https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/boats-marine/yachts/trailer-sailer/listing/4597855289

Contact: Deborah on 021 285 1223

Paper Tiger - Hairy MacLary

Built in 2008 by Andy Brown Plywood hulls with foam and carbon subdecks and bulkheads Minimum weight Comes with two rigs. North sail (S5) with carbon stiffener in mast and Redhead sail with no stiffener in mast Beach Trolley Foils in excelent condition

It has been a compeditive boat at both Club and National level. 12th overall at 2024 Nationals and winner of Legend Trophy

Road trailer available if required for an additional $1000.

Contact: Andy on 021 549 190

Paper Tiger Building Jig

Paper Tiger building Jig free to good home. Only had one boat built off it (Hairy MacLary PT3072)

Contact: Andy Brown  [email protected]  or 021 549 190

International 470 Sailing Dinghy

$1,900 o.n.o..

470 sailing dinghy 4 main sails, 2 jibs, spinnaker, trapeze. Boat located in Wellington..

See full details on Trade Me:

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/boats-marine/dinghies-rowboats/fibreglass/listing/4375150907

Contact: Angela  [email protected]  or 021 243 3648

Crocker Keelboat -  Wakarere

Wakarere holds a significant place in the history of the Wellington area. Commissioned by The Elliot's in 1939 and built by Jack Morgan in Picton, she carries a rich legacy. Correspondence between Sir Randle Elliot and Jack Morgan during the construction process adds to her historical value. Wakarere was the first yacht in the Wellington area to feature winches and a toilet. The introduction of these amenities was such a milestone that a "Toilet party" was held to celebrate. Sailing out of the RPNYC, she raced in all the inshore offshore races even participating in the ill-fated Wellington to Littleton race in 1951. Despite encountering difficulties, she persevered and made a memorable journey. Her resilience during this race caught the attention of documentary filmmakers, leading to her appearance in "Descent from Disaster," with Peter Montgomery filming her on the water.

She boasts a carvel plank design, crafted from Kauri with copper bolts, rivets, roves, black beech ribs, and Jara for floors, mast beams, and deadwood. She was built to stand the test of time.

See full details on Trade Me: https://www.trademe.co.nz/trade-me-motors/boats-marine/yachts/keeler/auction-4187411754

Contact: [email protected]  or 027 449 8786

Paper Tiger - The Kraken

Race Ready Paper Tiger.

Fantastic boat that won't let you down at an International level.  Selling as I just don't have the time to put into doing the boat justice!

See full details by clicking on picture.

Contact: [email protected]  or text 027 636 6465

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