Model: She 36
Design #: 2166-C1
Builder: South Hants Engineering
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
Model: IW 40
Year: 1982
Design: #2186
Builder: IW Varvet
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
Original Advertising, Sail Plan and General Arrangement
Model: Nautor’s Swan 47 / 066
Year: 1982
Design: #2201
Builder: Oy Nautor AB
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.
Model: Nautor’s Swan 65 / 005
Year: 1973
Design: #2110
Builder: Oy Nautor AB
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:
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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.
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.
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.
Model: Custom 46’
Year: 1975
Design: #2254
Builder: Palmer Johnson
ARISTEIA - Custom 46’ Design #2254
I was one of those very fortunate people to have grown up in a yacht racing family. As a youth, in the 60’s and 70’s, one could not help but study all the newest designs, the best of which were created by Sparkman & Stephens. My understanding of sailing yacht aesthetics was formed by designs like Aura, Bay Bea, Yankee Girl, and Dora IV. So when the owner of Design 2254 asked me to consider purchasing his boat we were quick to investigate. At age 80 and in failing health, he was anxious to find someone willing to save his creation and give it a second life. The yacht was placed in heated storage in 1995 and untouched for 15 years.
We peeled back a visqueen cover, slid open the hatches, and discovered that she was put away with about five gallons of diesel fuel in the bilge. After shaking off escaping fumes, we got about our investigation. Diesel had migrated throughout the interior, saturating everything. In addition, we found that every single piece of hardware, all fixtures, all plumbing, wiring, and electronics were original. Despite all that, the framing and plate structure surveyed rather well. But in summary, we were faced with a long, difficult, and costly proposition. Our overall intent was to complete the project with reasonable correlation between cost and value. On that basis, we established a sequence of work covering demolition, then recovery, repair, and refit. The first phase involved fixing interior damage; Phase-2 included total refinish of the deck and sail handling hardware; Phase-3 involved refinishing the topsides and hull.
And the results speak for themselves, fantastic! You can read about the full restoration of ARISTEIA in the 2013 Sparkman & Stephens Association Year book - Available to download in the Members Area.
Model: SHE 33
Year: 1979
Design: #2291
Builder: South Hants Marine
Sophie was launched in 1979, she spent the first 20 years of her life in the Channel Islands where she was refitted before coming back to the Solent around 2000.
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Model: Nautor’s Swan 57 / 013
Year: 1979
Design: #2297
Builder: Oy Nautor AB
Waterbourne
We fell in love with the designs of Sparkman & Stephens while sailing our Swan 38-001. We made a deal for our second Swan, Céleste II, in October 2019.
Céleste II is a Swan 57 ketch and a hull number 013. She has an extended transom and the overall length is 59 feet. As far as I know, she was sold first to France, and after that, she has sailed under Finnish and Swedish flags.
Roughly ten years ago, she had a major refit. In the process, teak decks were changed, hull and masts painted, and the interior was fully varnished, engine changed, etc. The previous owner has kept maintaining the excellent condition.
Model: Nautor’s Swan 76 / 004
Year: 1981
Design: #2331
Builder: Oy Nautor AB
SWAN 76 - TIGRIS
Tigris is No 4 of 5 built. She is the only 76 with a centreboard and deckhouse configuration. Originally sold to a Greek owner, Tigris then went to the West Coast US where she was owned by a keen sailor and America's Cup sponsor.
She did the Transpac race in this ownership. She later returned to the Med where she chartered prior to being bought by a US syndicate for the World ARC. The lead member of the syndicate was one of the crew of Courageous, the S&S designed America's Cup winner. We bought Tigris in Newport R.I. in 2011.
The design of the Swan 76 was loosely based on the World Champion Maxi rater in the 1970's, Kialoa 111
Model: Stevens 47
Year: 1981
Design: #2390.1
Builder: Queen Long Marine in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
LADY PENELOPE on her inaugural Mirs Bay Race (Photograph credit - Hebe Haven Yacht Club)
Lady Penelope was built in 1981 (hull #16) by Queen Long Marine in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for Stevens Yachts. She started life as a charter boat and appears to have changed hands at least four times since then until she was purchased by a couple who refitted her in Trinidad and embarked on a charter business in the Pacific en route to Sydney, Australia. She was put on the market in Sydney after her previous owners purchased a catamaran that was better suited to a local charter business and we found her armchair shopping one evening in Hong Kong.
We booked our flights to Sydney, fell in love and took ownership of Lady Penelope, so named because she has a ‘driver’ named Parker. From there, Lady Penelope went to Brisbane for some TLC and updating (her instruments may well have been original and we wanted something from this century for the journey back to Hong Kong).
LADY PENELOPE at anchor, Sunshine Island, Hong Kong
From Brisbane, she headed north and cleared out of Australia via Cairns. Three challenging days later (which included breaking the steering cable), Lady Penelope cleared into Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to switch crew as our friend could not get an Australia visa. She stopped in Ambon, Indonesia to refuel, crossed the equator and cleared into Cebu, Philippines two and half weeks later. Work called and we left Lady Penelope at the Cebu Yacht Club alongside a big ‘sistership’ - an S&S Swan 65 of similar vintage.
The next chance we could, we sailed her over to Subic Bay, Philippines where she cleared out to head home - Hong Kong. Up to this point, she had been sailed double handed but we opted to go with three for the final leg to Hong Kong knowing what the South China Sea could throw at us. But as these things go, it was a very uneventful trip.
We have had and look forward to many more wonderful adventures on Lady Penelope exploring the islands in Hong Kong and the rest of South East Asia when the world opens up again.
LADY PENELOPE at the Shelter Cove Marina, Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club
Model: Lacoste 42
Year: 1986
Design: #2482
Builder: Dufour Yachts
Lacoste 42 - VETTORE ROSSO
Developed by Michael Dufour this fiberglass production yacht was built by Chantiers Yachting of France as the Lacoste 42. The model was introduced during the Paris Boat Show of 1985.
The boat line was actually developed in great part for the Lacoste clothing brand. Even today, looking at the brand we find reference to this yacht line. From the Spring 2011 Lacoste line we find: Lacoste presents four classic styles from its footwear archive for its Spring/Summer 2011 Lacoste 42 collection. Inspired by the 42 yacht created for the brand in 1985, the four styles include the Broadwick Vulc, Cabestan Twin Cup, Chevel High and Rene Lacoste.
It looks like after the initial "flash in the pan" of a Lacoste branded yacht, production shifted to Dufour Yachts officially. 12 yachts were built during the production run which ended in 1991.
Copy from: https://nautipedia.it/index.php/LACOSTE_42
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