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    3 hours ago, 167149 said:

    ok was commenting on post #16  and it didn't attach or whatever the fuck they do,  Pete Blake made a comment pre start that this race could well be a race for second due to weather routing etc, Lawrie Smith/Rothmans  bit and came out with If Blake thinks this is a race for 2nd then I am the man to put him there...collective kiwi groan followed...Rothmans left south Hampton as a ketch and promptly dropped its mizzen which made it a ......sloop.... further down the track they dropped the main mast which made it a......canoe..... It wasn't all beer and skittles for Steiney either as on the last leg a chainplate let go and only a very quick crash jibe from Butterworth saved the entire rig

    You're mixing up boats and races and all kinds of things. Rothmans the Rob Humphreys designed maxi was never a ketch and finished 4th in the '89-90 Whitbread under Lawrie Smith, the race that Steinlager 11 won. Lawrie then took Fortuna Extra Lights from the '89-90 race, converted it into a ketch with the most sail area in all the fleet and entered the '93-94 Whitbread, also as Fortuna. The mizzen mast fell down shortly after the start in the first decent puff of wind, followed later the same day by the main mast. Lawrie Smith jumped onto Intrum Justitia, the Whitbread 60, at the start of Leg 2 after skipper Roger Nilson was injured, and set a new 24 hour distance record. He sailed the remainder of the race as skipper of Intrum.   

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    Does anyone know anything about Rampnat ii, The Book "Australia's Year of Sail" volume 1. there is a picture of it leaving the heads in the RSHYR 1982. From a little Googling i found that she is a Lavranos design. The picture of it rafted up at Constitution dock shows that it has such a small rig, next to Apollo and Condor.Was she an early ULDB? Who owned her and where did she go?

    Rampant ii was built in South Africa in '79, sailed in Cape to Uruguay race in '82 and '85 as well as a couple of Sydney Hobarts and the '86 Transpac. Owned by Alan Tucker, who was a very good Flying Dutchman and Finn sailor who, although he emigrated to Aus in the early '80's, continued to be involved in South African Finn sailing until very recently. The boat was designed by Angelo Lavranos, 70' long. Angelo did have a tendency to under-rig boats. I've no idea what happened to her after '86, though.

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    Just spent a couple of days in Cape Town, SA, and guess who I found?

     

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    All yours for 400,000 pounds according to Berthon.

     

     

    Here you go: http://www.berthon.c...07&currency=GBP

     

    According to them it puts the I in immaculate.... also the U in underachiever.

    Reckon they'd take offers? tongue.gif

    "With all the inventory needed to collect trophies all over the globe." ohmy.gif

     

    The current owner has spent loads of $$ after CD, but not many new sails? Also appears to show a new keel installed 500mm forward from the previous position. I thought after CD ditched John Corby, Greg Elliot was commissioned to design a new keel and moved the position approx 500mm aft. What is going on here?, the current owner might have gone back to John Corby to put the keel back to it's original design position? On a positive note the previous owner (CD) did not have any known delamination problems. At the right price this boat is still a great boat even if there have been a few problems under the Windex!

     

    The boat can be had for a song, Irvine Laidlaw spent plenty on her, but has a Ker 46 arriving shortly.

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    IRISH LOVE STORY

     

    An elderly man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite scones wafting up the stairs.

     

    He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed. Leaning on the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and with even greater effort, gripping the railing with both hands, he crawled downstairs.

     

    With labored breath, he leaned against the door-frame, gazing into the kitchen. Were it not for death's agony, he would have thought himself already in heaven, for there, spread out upon the kitchen table were literally hundreds of his favorite scones.

     

    Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of love from his devoted Irish wife of sixty years, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man?

     

    Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table, landing on his knees in rumpled posture.

     

    His aged and withered hand trembled towards a scone at the edge of the table, when it was suddenly smacked by his wife with a wooden spoon....

     

     

     

     

     

    "F**k off" she said, "they're for the funeral."

  12. Posted

    Enclosed a foto of „Spilhaus III“ (not spillhouse) ex „Counterpoint“ near Capetown.

     

    „Lets see to get the main one more row down...“

     

    This one being Whitbread watch leader and round the world veteran Ted „Padda“ Kuttels („Atlantic Privateer“) second Swede 55, replacing his red hulled „Sweedy“ (boat no. one, which was lost previously in Mauritus).

     

    Zeb, in the interest of accuracy, Teddy Kuttel is the owner of "Spilhaus" in Cape Town. He is the brother of Peter "Padda" Kuttel, best known in sailing circles as the owner of "Xargo111" (Swan 65) in the 1981 Whitbread and "Atlantic Privateer" in the 1985 Whitbread. As stated "Spilhaus" is Teddy's second Swede 55, the first, with a red hull was wrecked and sunk on one of the islands north of Mauritius prior to the 1989 Mauritius to Durban race. Teddy has done many many thousands of miles with his beloved "Spilhaus" and continues to sail her actively today.

     

    I think I might have a couple of pics of her from last year. I'll post them if I can find them.