Big Liz on the move

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Mandatory snap of their designer:


Raymond Wall | Sailboatdata.com

 

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I spent a week on HMSTY Racer, just in the Channel. After a couple of days no one else wanted to helm so I enjoyed it from then on..

I was helming on British Soldier (now Kukri I believe and formerly Qualo 3 or 4) in fairly heavy airs and bumpy seas in Biscay. Out of the Azores bound for Channel Islands, big wave picked us up and we hit 17 knots. Awesome. Had been doing a steady 13 to 14 with 3 reefs in a prevented main and No 3 Genoa.

No plotter, AIS, radar, yadda yadda. Did have an HF radio to make routine reports on a military frequency plus normal vhf. Hanked on headsails. Used DECCA for hourly fixing.

Ships were wood, men were steel. We had a ball.

 

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Here she is, just laid up in Trinidad so Simon who owns her can get back to the day job (superyacht C/E):View attachment 210034View attachment 210035View attachment 210036

Wow how lovely to see her again, thank you!

I still have a copy of the race results from the Clyde Cruising Club for the series we sailed in (Comet Wheel Series They were tough in those days! - The Scottish Series 2026)

From the CCC:
1975 - Tomatin Distillers became sponsor of the Comet Wheel Series to create the Comet Wheel Series for the Tomatin Trophy. The Series started with a 200-mile race round the Mull of Kintyre via Belfast Lough to Crinan. After the second leg of the Tobermory Race, itself in company with the rest of the Clyde Cruising Club fleet, there were three Olympic triangle races in increasingly strong winds in the area north of Tobermory. The final race was the 90-mile short offshore race from Tobermory finishing at Armadale on Skye but was postponed to the following morning and shortened to only 60 miles due to severe weather.

 

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Quailo III ex Broadsword ex British Soldier ex Quailo III, at her berth in the Hamble with Andrew who owns her.

Andrew says that he had to get through a lot of red to find the original green to get a match.

 

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Quailo III ex Broadsword ex British Soldier ex Quailo III, at her berth in the Hamble with Andrew who owns her.

Andrew says that he had to get through a lot of red to find the original green to get a match.

Ah, yes, Broadsword. The owner when she was Quailo saw us in Chrbourg on a pontoon. I saw a guy looking, so I asked about his interest. This was during the passage I mentioned before. I called up the skipper, an ex submarine 1st Lt. And suggested an invite aboard. Drink was taken.

He happily regaled us with dits from the past especially when he and a friend raced her in a round Britain. Same electronics as above. Same handed on sails. Amazing endeavour.

 

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Don Parr's Quailo?

 

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Don Parr's Quailo?

Yes.