CARLY III

CARLY III

Model: Nautor’s Swan 43 / 018

Year: 1969

Design: #1973

Builder: Oy Nautor AB

CARLY III - Swan 43/018 year 1969

Carly III was originally branded as a PJ 43 for USA markets and started as a racing boat on the big lakes in USA. After a racing period, in the end of 1970’s she continued ocean racing and globetrotting from New Orleans. In the 1980’s she moved to Denmark and was for the first time refurbished in Walsted Baadeverf. Year 2000 she was brought to Finland by Fredrik Ekström. First she was refurbished and structurally reinforced and modified in Nautor Yxpila. Current owners have then continued refurbishing, updating, especially to the electronics and navigation systems.

Today, she is a very thoroughly, but carefully to original lay-out and contemporary style refurbished classic S&S offering unique, fast and powerful sailing performance and eye-catching, stunning looks. Beside of a beautiful interior, this unique yacht offers a very extensively reinforced hull and structures and custom made fittings. Other modifications include e.g. modified and deeper keel (1150 kg extra) and deeper rudder to match the new modified 20 meter Huisman 3-spreader rig and oversized deck gear and Perkins M65 engine and hydraulic gearbox for blue-water sailing in demanding areas. For one-man or family sailing she also has the strongest Jefa DD2 direct drive autopilot installed, controlled via Garmin autopilot system.

The current displacement is 13 tons, ballast being 6 tons and draught 2,45m. Latest LYS given is 1.29.

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Heliopolis

HELIOPOLIS

Model: Sagitta 35

Year: 1974

Design: #2008

Builder: Bianca Yachts

HELIOPOLIS- Sagitta 35

Heliopolis, originally named Søhesten, spent her life racing and cruising the Baltic and the Norwegian Sea.  Tracks and fixes on the boat’s charts indicate that she cruised up to Magerøya.  The boat was purchased by Shady Maurice, a British engineer and sailor, in the summer of 2024.  She was rechristened Heliopolis after the city of the sun god Ra.As of winter 2024, Heliopolis is being refitted and upgraded in Holland; with the aim of preparing her for long offshore races and cruises; and ultimately to participate in the Fastnet 2027 race.

Tjerk Hiddes

TJERK HIDDES

Model: Sagitta 35

Year: 1974

Design: #2008

Builder: Bianca Yachts

TJERK HIDDES- Sagitta 35

Tjerk Hiddes was located in Brittany until 2009. Then bought by Fenna Poletiek and Jan Schiereck and now located in the Netherlands.

Ugly Duckling

UGLY DUCKLING

Model: Sagitta 35

Year: 1972

Design: #2008

Builder: Bianca Yachts

© Sersys Inshore Challenge by Rick Tomlinson

Having been used as a charter boat and a live-aboard in recent years, the Sagitta 35 Ugly Duckling made a successful return to IRC racing in 2019 winning both the JOG Offshore Yacht Racing inshore series in class six and the IRC 1 class in the Hamble Classics Regatta. Along the way she also secured two line-honours victories in her two finishes in the JOG Offshore Series.

Purchased by Olly Bewes and George Beevor towards the end of the 2018 series, Ugly Duckling emerged from a winter’s work to win the traditional season opener, JOG Nab Tower Race in March and consolidated that with a second in the Cowes-Yarmouth race in May. Line honours followed in a gale strewn St Vaast Race and again in the Cowes-Alderney race a few weeks later. A fourth win of the season was secured in the Cowes-Weymouth race and a second in Cowes-Poole and a third in the JOG Sersys Inshore Challenge was enough to secure the title.

© The Nab Tower by John Green

In between times she took IRC 1 class in the Hamble Classics Regatta which was hosted by the RAF Yacht Club in early September.

“This first year has really exceeded our expectations” said co-owner George. “We knew that she had the potential to be a real weapon against modern boats in long distance racing but we did not think she would come good quite so quickly – I think the height of our ambition for the Nab Tower Race was the top six. It’s offshore where she really came into her own though, sailing downwind in fifty knots on the way to St Vaast she felt safe and stable and really looked after us. She is a remarkable boat”.

More information about JOG can be found at https://jog.org.uk/ and Hamble Classics https://rafyc.org.uk/hamble-classics-regatta/