Category: CYAA Register

Larapinta

History LARAPINTA is a heavy displacement 11 metre (37 feet) cruising yacht designed by prolific Sydney naval architect AC Barber. Launched in 1945, it was sailed by Peter Mounsey and

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Julia Jane under sail on Port Phillip.

Julia Jane

History The Vertue Class of yacht  designed by ‘Jack’ Laurent Giles dating from 1936. The class was not named Vertue until after the war when a boat built to the design won the

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Frances

History FRANCES is an International 8 metre class yacht designed and built by Ernest Digby in Melbourne Victoria in 1948 for racing in the prestigious interstate challenge event for the

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Jedda

Bunbury boatbuilder Jim MacDonald built about half a dozen of L. Francis Herreshoff’s famous cruising and racing H-28 yachts in the 1950s. At the time the H-28, which L. Francis

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Cygnet

History CYGNET is a wooden racing and cruising yacht built in Tasmania in 1925. It was designed and built by members of the Wilson Bros in Cygnet, and they have

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Cyan

Cyan

History Cyan was completed by highly regarded boat builder Barry Wilson in Rosny Tasmania in April 1971 for a Queensland silk screen printer Robert Rusk. She is named after the

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