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What's the chord on that mast?
Choosing the right performance cruising cat for Uhuru.
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he b gb
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Ok, I understand. I’ve done something similar on Cactus Island. When fully down my boards go halfway through the cases and stop at a strengthened position in the case. The shortened boards being a good weight saving and windage saving when up.
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Phil Morrison is a genius. I had no idea he had drawn some smaller cruising cats. Like most everything else he has done.....that,sir, is a very good looking ship.
Was it a one-off or a design he drew for a manufacturer?
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VPLP attribute their heritage to the inspiration they received when working for Phil.
Wess
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Did you build her yourself? You are one rare bird man! A builder AND sailor! Cool boat!
Wess
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EXTREMELY rare bird! Built a boat, had a relationship survive the build, and sails the boat!! You should get to know @Ravenswing!
he b gb
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I’ll see your one and raise you three!
Looks like we’ve definitely found ourselves Keepers.
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Three happy wifes after building a multihull? Mr. Wharram is approvingly smiling down at you.
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Three wives or three hulls? Jest wondering.
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So, you got to work with Phil on the design. What a privilege. Did he follow the build process? I hope you are going to take him out for a spin.
I walked into a boat builders shop not so long ago and there was the legendary Phil jawing with the builder and passing on a rudder design he had been playing with. Then off to the pub for some beers and stories.
This is the man who, only 18 years old, designed China Doll in 1967 which crushed it in the National 12 class.
His designs won every Merlin Rocket Championship for an unheard of 17 successive years in the 1980s. That is the hot bed of development class , box rule, design. It is really hard to get an edge for 2 years let alone a decade.
He was the design genius behind the RS dinghies that basically changed the face of dinghy sailing in the UK.
He designed Exmouth Challenge which promptly won the 1984 OSTAR with Yves Fauconnier at the helm. When YF wanted a new bigger boat, Phil moved to France and asked to work with two French designers who he had met when they were students at Southampton. They had designed a boat that had been beaten by Exmouth Challenge the prior year. Those two designers went on to be VPLP and still credit Phil as being the greatest influence in their design careers. VPLP designed the O5X which is one of my favorite performance cruisers. VPLP also designed what Phil cheerfully referred to as "floating blocks of flats"
"not my bag". Meanwhile Phil, who has a hard time staying in one place, went on to change the way we design and build sails with his own sail design company. Then design some of the most famous ocean rowing boats in the world.
So building and owning a one off fast cruising cat designed by PM is a very special thing.
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Haha, no, just the one wife. Met her cruising up the great barrier reef in 1983(omg, that’s 40 years ago)
Returned to Oz in 1988 and I built 3 large cats since and still together. I can’t believe that she puts up with me?
Photo is the Waterfront Bar and Grill which was the unofficial Vanuatu Cruising Yacht Club headquarters which started up not long after we arrived On Nambawan.
Mambo Kings
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6 hulls + 1 wife = You better damn well make sure you do something special for the 40th anniversary of when you met.
Returned to Oz in 1988 and I built 3 large cats since and still together. I can’t believe that she puts up with me?
Photo is the Waterfront Bar and Grill which was the unofficial Vanuatu Cruising Yacht Club headquarters which started up not long after we arrived On Nambawan.
Do not disappoint us.....or her.
he b gb
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Not many changes in stern since 1983, just STEPS added by clever people (pictured below is 2001 built cat) !
Off topic but I lived on a boat as a kid. You don't remember a steel ketch called Catherine Grace by any chance. We did the Queensland coast, New Caledonia and Vanuatu around that time.
Returned to Oz in 1988 and I built 3 large cats since and still together. I can’t believe that she puts up with me?
Photo is the Waterfront Bar and Grill which was the unofficial Vanuatu Cruising Yacht Club headquarters which started up not long after we arrived On Nambawan.
Phil is a great guy, he gave me a load of good advice, was always full of enthusiasm for what I was trying to do. I got the line drawings and some other stuff and he left me to it. He was delighted I managed to get her on the water. He is also a excellent glider pilot.
he b gb
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Did you spend any time in Port Vila? We were berthed at the Waterfront Bar and Grill(above phot) from late 1985 to late 1987while I was working for Vila Refrigeration.
