RCYC yacht Acushla is found and is for sale

Largely restored,see how tight the hull seams are,Acushla is now for sale,contact me for information.


Nick off Wylo 2 and friend view the boats interior


Founder Member TBA,Cape Town

Astra,Acushla,Parergon 2 Circa 1936/39 Table Bay,Cape Town,South Africa.

When I restored the 1934 yacht Astra,a Tumlaren,I found a picture of Astra,Acushla and Parergon 2,its been on the web some time now since my story was published on Duckworths Magazine,well Acushla has just turned up and she is for sale,what a wonderfull piece of sailing history for some person to restore fully,contact me for more information.

'Acushla'design information,built in Cape Town and launched in 1936 to a design named Tally-Ho by an american called Atken for Mr A Barr,she had a transom stern,was approximatly 30ft overall and has a 28ft waterline,9'-6" beam,6'-6" draft and displaces 10 tons,she had a 14hp Brookes engine which was found to be underpowered,her mast was hollow and was imported from Sweden.

Credit,

The above information is taken from the late Bill Rabinowitz book named 'A History of the Royal Cape Yacht Club' 1904-1990,page 165, published in a limited edition in 1995,I am fortunate enough to have receieved my own signed copy from Bill himself on the evening it was released.

News Flash, we have located where the boat was built and spoken to a nephew of the builder too,we have pictures of the boat yard and will post information on this blog page soon.

July 2016 I am being asked for more information of the boat, does anyone have some?

Roy

Resolution 816 Epoxy information

Table Bay,Cape Town,Royal Cape Yacht Club yachts,in 1965 with Astra on the left





At least once a week we get a question or two about the epoxies we sell,what is it,is it any good,why is it less expensive than the others on sale? When I started the build on a Dix 43 about ten years ago,I took advice from the boats designer Dudley Dix and used Shell 816 epoxy,which since Shell Chemicals moved out of epoxies,has now been re branded as Resolution 816.Its a no nonsense type general purpose epoxy,it has many uses but the one we look at is its glue line and gap filling quality,it works so well that we romove all fastners from the build,then back fill screw holes with 816 epoxy and graded teak wood flour.Little Astra was literaly a sunken wreck,it was given to me on the understanding I fix her,so I skinned her with two layers of 4mm ockume marine plys and of course the glue was Resolution 816. Astra was repaired some ten years back now,she will be 74 years old now,she is also boat number 8 of possibly more than 1000 built.

Roy