BEAGLE II

BEAGLE II

Model: Custom Motor Yacht

Year: 1969

Design: #2162

Builder: Custom

During her shake down cruise- missing railings, navigation mast, tender and tender crane.

In 1975 there was a very high tax on the importation of boats, so the Behrens family brought aritisans and boatbuilders to live in Venezuela to build the boat. The Behens family owned the boat for nerarly 50 years until it sold around 2024, to another Venezuelan gentleman who embarked on its restoration.

The current owners purchased the boat in July 2026 and are making a complete restoration in Venezuela.

BEAGLE II 1975 motor yacht

RANSEL III

RANSEL III

Model: She 36

Design #: 2166-C1

Builder: South Hants Marine, UK

This (first build) SHE 36 was purchased by her first Dutch owner at her debut in the London boat show in ‘75. He sailed with her for 25 years. We became the proud owners of this lady in 1999. Sailing with her for 25 years now is an ongoing pleasure.

RANSEL III

WINDIGO

WINDIGO

Model: IW 40

Year: 1982

Design: #2186

Builder: IW Varvet

WINDIGO- IW 40 - Hull No. 30

WINDIGO- IW 40 - Hull No. 30

WINDIGO is an IW 40, she is hull number 30. This attractive yacht was built by the IW-Varvet AB shipyard of Sweden. With a production run from approximately 1977-1983 and 35 produced. .

Principal Dimensions

LOA 39-6"
LWL 28-6"
Beam 11-5"
Draft 6-3"
Displacement 16,660 lbs
Ballast 8,957 lbs
Sail Area 716 sq ft

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Original Advertising, Sail Plan and General Arrangement


TIGER LILLY

TIGER LILLY

Model: Nautor’s Swan 47 / 066

Year: 1982

Design: #2201

Builder: Oy Nautor AB

Tiger Lilly - Swan 47 Design #2201

Tiger Lilly - Swan 47 Design #2201

The history of Swan 47/066 ”Tiger Lily”, ex. ”Alicadoo” (British flag), ex. ”Seaway Lady” (Swedish flag). Tiger Lily was launched in June 1982. She started her life under the Swedish flag and with the name Seaway Lady, homeport Gothenburg. She was sold already in November 1982 to an owner from Northern Ireland and had to change her name because the name Seaway Lady could not be registered under her new flag. Her new name became Alicadoo.

Between 1983 and 1989 Alicadoo did 6 transatlantic trips with Peter ”Stokey” Woodall as skipper. Her homeport was Vilamoura in Portugal. Alicadoo did also make several trips to the Azores from her homeport. On one of these trips, she became ”famous” as she was part of the filming of the RYA Yachtmaster video nr. 3.

Plans from classicswan.org

In August 1989 Alicadoo was bought by me. Our first sail together was from Vilamoura to Southampton, UK. It was late October so we started a life together with very rough weather. We arrived in Southampton under the Finnish flag and the new name of Tiger Lily. The flag and name were changed outside Cabo Finisterre in a force 10 storm.

During the years I have owned Tiger Lily I have made 6 transatlantic trips from Europe to the Caribbean. One of these was the cruise to celebrate Columbus 500 years since the discovery of the Americas. I have also visited Horta, Azores 4 times. Today, even with more than 130.000 nm on her log, Tiger Lily is in better shape than new after a big refit in 2008-2011.

VANESSA

VANESSA

Model: Nautor’s Swan 47 / 069

Year: 1984

Design: #2201 CB

Builder: Oy Nautor AB

Me and my wife Giulia became Custodian of Vanessa in 2015, and we took over the responsibility to take care of her from the original Owner, Mr. Peter Ellerbrock, who sailed her for 30 years in the Baltic and around Great Britain. We try to keep her as best as we can!

SAIDA

SAIDA

Model: Nautor’s Swan 65 / 005

Year: 1973

Design: #2110

Builder: Oy Nautor AB

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The beautiful SAIDA, A Nautor’s Swan 65, she is hull no.5 out of a production run of 41.

You can follow her, her crew and their adventures on facebook, link below:

Plans from classicswan.org

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MARIANNA

MARIANNA

Model: Antilla 36

Year: 1979

Design: #2227.1

Builder: Eino Antinoja

MARIANNA - Anitlla 36

Marianna is presumably the ninth of the twelve boats in the Antilla 36 series built by Eino Antinoja in Inkoo Finland. The specialty of the Antilla 36 series is that the boats are all more or less individual, and none of them is completely in line with the design of the S&S 2227 C1. There is a difference between the drawings, at least for the rudder and the skeg, and especially for the ”spike” in the lower corner of the transom. There are also different variations of the rigging, the original design being a masthead rig. The first Antilla 36 hulls were solid laminate, and Marianna is probably the first to have in addition to the deck also the sides down to the waterline built as a sandwich structure with balsa core. According to heritage, Marianna also had a masthead rig initially, but it came down quite rapidly and was replaced by Seldens fractional 7/8 racing rig with inline spars and running backstays and check stays.

Marianna came into its current fifth owner’s possession in 2011, having been in the same ”family” since 1991. Marianna’s racing character has been tamed over the years, among others with roller furling genoa, full teak interior, and even now with a built-in refrigerator. Therefore the old lady is now slightly overweight with her 5100 kg mass. However, this does not bother as Marianna is nowadays in pure cruising usage, except for the occasional non-serious races of her Yacht Club Sindbad, in which she has still done reasonably well.

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Marianna has been well cared for and maintained with love over the years, and her structures, with the exception of the rudder repair, have not needed to interfere. In the fall of 2018, the bottom of the boat was glass-blasted, and after new epoxy-coating, it is now ready to sail around for the next 40 years. The sailing fittings have been renewed almost completely, as is the case also with the standing and running rigging. Navigation electronics onboard Marianna are in a state of the art condition, and the original Perkins 49 hp engine has also been replaced with 31 hp Sole.

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Finnish:

S/Y Marianna on Eino Antinojan Inkoossa rakentaman Antilla 36 sarjan tiettävästi yhdeksäs vene kahdestatoista. Antilla 36 sarja on siitä erikoinen, että veneet ovat kaikki enemmän tai vähemmän yksilöitä, eikä yksikään niistä ole täysin S&S piirustusten mukainen design 2227 C1. Eroa piirustuksiin löytyy ainakin peräsimen ja skegin osalta, sekä etenkin peräpeilin alanurkan “pukamasta”. Myös takilasta on erilaisia variaatiota, alkuperäisen suunnitelman ollessa toppirikattu. Alun perin Antilla 36 rungot olivat umpilaminaattia ja Marianna lieneekin ensimmäinen, jossa kannen lisäksi kyljet ovat vesiviivaan asti balsaytimellistä sandwich-rakennetta. Perimätiedon mukaan Mariannassakin oli alun perin toppiriki, joka tuli kuitenkin alas nopeassa tahdissa, ja korvattiin Seldenin 7/8 racing-takilalla suorine saalinkeineen ja tuplabarduunoineen.

Marianna on siirtynyt nykyisille viidensille omistajilleen vuonna 2011 ja on kulkenut jo aiemmin samassa “suvussa” vuodesta 1991 eteenpäin. Mariannan racing-luonnetta on vuosien varrella kesytetty mm. rullagenualla, täydellä jalopuusisustuksella ja nykyään jopa kiinteällä jääkaapilla. Niinpä vanha rouva onkin nykyään hieman ylipainoinen noin 5100 kg:n massallaan. Tämä ei kuitenkaan haittaa, sillä Marianna on puhtaassa matkavenekäytössä satunnaisia Pursiseuransa Sindbadin leikkimielisiä kisoja lukuun ottamatta, joissa se on toki vielä pärjännytkin kohtuullisesti.

Mariannaa on pidetty hyvin ja hoivattu hellästi vuosien saatossa, eikä sen rakenteisiin ole vettyneen peräsimen korjausta lukuun ottamatta tarvinnut pahemmin puuttua. Syksyllä 2018 veneen pohja lasipuhallettiin ja kevään epoksoinnin jälkeen se on taas valmis uusiin purjehduksiin seuraavat 40 vuotta. Purjehdusheloitus on uusittu lähes kokonaan, kuten myös seisova ja juokseva rikikin. Myös navigointielektroniikan osalta Marianna on modernissa iskussa ja alkuperäinen 49 hp Perkins dieselmoottori on saanut väistyä nykyisen 31 hp Solen tieltä.