I think I took those photos. She was languishing unloved in a side yard at a factory in Moorabbin at the time but has since been moved because the site is being redeveloped. There was a flurry of activity on these pages when I put the photos up but I haven't heard anything of her since. IIRC original owner, RYCV stalwart Doug Anderson, passed recently?
Sorry to switch the subject a bit. Is this the same Lirakis of Lirakis Harness that was a must have as a bowman?
Affirmative on Steve Lirakis, bowman and safety harness, being at Commodore's B-Day party. He lives up the road from Sausalito.
With GRP over expensive in those cheap labour days, they were an attractive and efficient alternative to carvel build, and .... the then RORC rule offered a few unintentional loopholes for Steel boats.
And Frans had not mastered (or started) to build in GRP by that time. The first fiberglass hulls were build at the Verschure yard in Amsterdam and finished in Breskens.
Yup, he was not building any hull inhouse at the time, just sandwich boats plugs. (a scholar might wonder whether the move to an inhouse production line was a right one :mellow:
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Wow Fiji. That is a great pic. Look at Frans, so young :lol: Wonder which boats are in build. The white one is a Tina. The blue one isn't
