Recent content by CC@GTY

Calm down. Nothing sinister! Ref. degree of anonymity within communication relating to GT35-01, this was at owner's request. Pretty normal. Reason he is selling has already been mentioned. I'm enjoying the level of interest and I hope I'll be able to make people proud of British boatbuilding...

For thread info, this is the response I got when I contacted BKYC at the beginning of 2013 shortly after the 10 boat HR deal had been announced: "Conrad I am pleased to discover that there is a potential alternative to the HR 342, and interested to hear about it as competition can only...

Hopefully you've all seen this: www.gtyachts.com Yes we will be building Stephen Jones 39 again. However, those that have demo-sailed the new GT35 in anticipation of the GT39 coming online later have all said that the 35 is plenty big enough. Huge inside for a 35, seriously big, and of course...

May I present a sneak preview of the rather amazing forecabin of the new GT35? :D More at GT Yachts' Facebook feed.

OK no probs. Lack of back stay. Well, with modern design tools and materials it's pretty straight forward to find the load paths and engineer the appropriate structure to accommodate it, for the vast majority of situations. The problem with having no back stay is that in order for your mast to...

Silver-Fox I am he. If you need any deciphering please fire away. I like your use of the highly raked fishing vessels example. I probably could have used that in the article as a contrast. The long fine bow of a trawler is to maintain a fine entry whilst also rapidly increasing reserve...

I'll take that as a general forum invitation to post some info. See sail plan with general data. If anybody wants to know more please PM me. Apoogies for the quality of the image, downsized for web. Conrad.

Although we're not marketing it explicitly, the GT35 can be specified with bilge keels. Conrad.

If you've already got it up and it's wrapped then you might consider doing a swift 360 to use the changing apparent wind direction to help unwrap. It would be less than 20 mins....and of course if you owe a 360 for the dodgy overlap call at the last mark then 2 birds, one stone and all that..!

Submarines stow their anchors under the hull. With a bow like that those boats are going to be submarine-ing a lot! They seem to like that sort of thing on the Volvo races - better TV maybe? check this out. Freeboard sir? Er, no thanks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A7XJLhRVVE

From IBI News feed Several offers for Nord West & Najad Bankrupt Swedish yard Nord West & Najad may be close to finding a new owner. Several buyers have announced their interest in the company, which has been described as very well organised with top class products by the official receiver...

For babies when they are awake we've used a car seat wedged in the companionway with suitable wedging jig - easy to poke bits of food in when they are in this position. When asleep, wedged in pretty much anywhere down below, still in the car seat. Once they start moving around it's difficult to...

...which is exactly what I did Sandgrounder, well not exactly a one off. Last year I asked Stephen Jones to draw a 35' pure cruiser, with plenty of power and broad shoulders with a combined capability for weekend pootling as well as appeasing those with desires for horizon pointing. The GT35 is...

That would be another Scandinavian tragedy. Both Malo and Najad build a proper yacht. There's plenty to salvage in each case so it's likely that they will both emerge at some point. Conrad.

Just spoke to Nick Heyes who was a little surprised! Digital Yacht is alive and well apparently - good job since we're specifying their equipment on GT Yachts..! Conrad.