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/