Peters Monkey,Claudia and her friends

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Alan Butler and Claudia.


The girls,one is local,the other sailed across on Elangaini,a sponsered race boat in the South Atlantic Race,Elangaini is a hotel in Durban,thats where the girl is from,Angelo Lavranos designed the race boat.


This is a love bite?

We had the pleasure to meet a very famous monkey at Ilha Grande,RJ,Brasil,Peter took her over from a local convent when the monkey became a little frisky,at Peters place the monkey was then allowed to be totaly free the entire day but then returned to her new home of her own free will each evening,her belt clip was then attatched to a very long line and she could then move around Peters garden and its high palm trees easily.

Paper Jet part built kit for sale right now

Dudley Dix's own boat is from one of our CNC cut ply packs,Buy this part built kit now,you could soon be sailing like this.

One of the buyers of our Paper Jet 14 kits has been re located and can not take his Paper Jet part built kit with him,he tells me its 70% complete and is ready for another to take it over right now,we have no pictures or price involved,we will add these in when we have them.We can crate and ship this boat world wide!

Ocean Planet (tal gal) anchored at Ilha Grande

Surely one of the joys of owning a yacht is when you arrive in a bay we all call Peters Place,Ilha Grande,Brasil,which is about sixty miles south of Rio de Janerio,some pictures just look right,this is one of them? Google Earth shows that the bay,which is at 23.09'19s 44.07' 36w is still unspoilt and undeveloped with just one extra cottage built in some 25 years,even Peters Ham Radio Shack still exists,you can find it by following a dirt track to the top of a hill,its just possible to see where Peter Thurridl (call sign PY1ZAK) used his amature radio from.

Roy

Wharram Tiki 30 catamaran

We may have our own line of boat designs but we are not adverse to supplying those who chose another,this is a Wharram Tiki 30 hull completed from materials we supplied,being the ockume marine plys and our own range of epoxies.This is the second Tiki 30 we have supplied recently,the first one is sailing,we also did all the spars and cross beams to that one.With a Hartley 37 being supplied in december 2008,we have a decent spread of other designs,we also supply the information on the use of our epoxies and International paints,this is all part of our service.

The yachts hard spray dodger continues

It was April 2008 we started work on the next kit offering,it then got side lined as we got busy with other things,its the way it goes as the year passes a half way mark but its time to re visit where we got to,the 15mm BS 1088 panels are now CNC machined,the roof is laminated from three sheets of Superform bending plys and the next step is assembly,I will update this blog as we proceed as of and when we have the time to do the work,kits orders come first and we still have those to complete and pack.

Proteus 106 sailing catamaran

This boat is in Thailand,it has just had its mast fitte,so we can expect some sailing pictures and a report on the boats performance quite soon.Our kit will cost only R180,000,which is around U$19,500 not a lot to pay for a 35ft catamaran these days.

Who agrees we have Global Warming

We went for a sail in Chapmans Bay,thats just south of Cape Town Port,this was what the local weather was like,very nice,you can see its really a fine and clear day,it was a tad chilly though.

Roy

Hard dinghy designed by Bob Perry for Jakatan

Here is our next kit offering,its January the 1st 2009,so as good a way to start the new year as any.We do not yet have any strip planked boats,we will have another in the next few months but Bob Perry's 10ft (3.1mtr) design will be our very first.View this web site to read about the owners (Jeff) specific requirements,it all makes perfect sense to me.

http://www.jakatan.com/jakatan_014.htm

On this boat our kit will be the male mould on which to form the hull strip planks on,this will be CNC machined from MDF,its later removed and discarded,we will also supply the transom,cut to shape,all wood cove strips,epoxies and glass cloth will be included.The sail and mast plus Harken hardware can be included also.Plans will be supplied direct from the Robert Perry Design Office.