Category: CYAA Register

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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Christela

Christela

History From CYAA Magazine, issue 33:  Christela returns home by John Devers Noted designer Frederick Parker was managing the Woodnutt yard at St Helens on the Isle of Wight in 1960

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Caprice of Huon

Caprice of Huon

Links Caprice of Huon on the Australian Register of Historic Vessels From Australian National Maritime Museum: 1967: When Australia First Won The Admiral’s Cup (Part 1 of 2)1967: When Australia First

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Sayonara

Sayonara

History Sayonara, Japanese for goodbye, was built by Mr G F Garrard, then commodore of the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria (RYCV) at a time when the largest yacht in

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Alwyn, 1923 Sandy Bay, Hobart

Alwyn

History ALWYN is wooden racing built in Tasmania.  It is a Tasmanian ‘A Class’ racing yacht from 1923, and one of three improved versions of the popular Tasmanian One Design

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Marie Louise III

Marie Louise III

History In 1906 a conference in London, attended by all the major yachting nations,[excluding USA which had its own Universal Rule] paved the way for this new breed of yacht-the

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Mercedes III

Mercedes III

History Australia’s first cold moulded ocean racer, the first and fourth fore and aft oregon planking (5/16th”), 2 diagonal layers (3/16th”). Keel, ribs, frames and floors Queensland Maple. Racing History:

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