Yes, with some twenty one South African yachts posted now, the SA Yacht Blog is now 21!
This seems to have come about by my mentioning to fellow HBYC member Justin Phillips, that we need a reference manual to find out what boats built in South Africa are like? The fact is and it will
surprise many, the yacht building trade in South Africa has been very busy over many decades building all sizes of yachts from designers world wide.
Justin on his own yacht which is a Flamenca.
http://sayachts.blogspot.com/
I had asked the national sailing magazine to feature used sailing boats to be found in a similar fashion, its done over seas and I think its a great help to brokers and buyers alike, well the idea fell on deaf ears here, that was until Justin started!
Try this report to start with, its a very interesting story and a great boat to own!
The one in the picture is for sale by the way.
http://sayachts.blogspot.com/2011/01/flamenca-25.html
Pictures by R McBride using a Canon G11 on auto but with some tele lens.
Justin tells me he has more SA yachts in the mix, if one you know about has not been featured, why not contact him.
What about the Mistral, designed by Fred Raas and when in this country, that design is now forty years old and some 140 were built, seems they were making one a week at one time! The one on the HBYC marina is sail number 107 by the way.
Roy
This seems to have come about by my mentioning to fellow HBYC member Justin Phillips, that we need a reference manual to find out what boats built in South Africa are like? The fact is and it will
surprise many, the yacht building trade in South Africa has been very busy over many decades building all sizes of yachts from designers world wide.
Justin on his own yacht which is a Flamenca.
http://sayachts.blogspot.com/
I had asked the national sailing magazine to feature used sailing boats to be found in a similar fashion, its done over seas and I think its a great help to brokers and buyers alike, well the idea fell on deaf ears here, that was until Justin started!
Try this report to start with, its a very interesting story and a great boat to own!
The one in the picture is for sale by the way.
http://sayachts.blogspot.com/2011/01/flamenca-25.html
Pictures by R McBride using a Canon G11 on auto but with some tele lens.
Justin tells me he has more SA yachts in the mix, if one you know about has not been featured, why not contact him.
What about the Mistral, designed by Fred Raas and when in this country, that design is now forty years old and some 140 were built, seems they were making one a week at one time! The one on the HBYC marina is sail number 107 by the way.
Roy
