Centaur with Sugar Scoop Stern

[CeesH]

I found this Amazing Website from Louise Perron & Sylvain Cauvier, they did an amazing conversion to their Westerly Centaur (1969)

Link to Home Page: Tribull 1

Link to the conversion: Mouillage de Tribull you can Click on the RED text in the drawing for more information. Click on "JUPETTE" in the center drawing to see the pages of the conversion.

CeesH

 

[Tradewinds]

When I was in Trinidad back in 1994/5 there were quite a few people taking advantage of the cheap labour/material costs to 'modify' their boats.

There was a chap there who had a Westerly - a W33 I think - who had a scoop put on by an approved grp contractor at the yard (Power Boats).

I have to say, it looked OK and not oddball at all. The finish was excellent.

I wonder where the boat is now?

 

[Lucky Duck]

The is a Leisure 23 with a Sugar Scoop and twin spreader rig knocking about the East Coast, last time I saw it was in on TV in St Kats marina.

 

[langstonelayabout]

Why, in the name of all things that are made of GRP, would you want to put that on the back of a perfectly well designed boat???

I write as I've found this: http://www.boat24.com/fr/Voiliers/Jeanneau/Jeanneau+Eolia+25/detail/169364/ which is where someone has devastated (externally and internally) the class of boat I sail...

Don't. Right? Its just wrong...

 

[JumbleDuck]

I write as I've found this: http://www.boat24.com/fr/Voiliers/Jeanneau/Jeanneau+Eolia+25/detail/169364/ which is where someone has devastated (externally and internally) the class of boat I sail..

 

[pvb]

Why, in the name of all things that are made of GRP, would you want to put that on the back of a perfectly well designed boat???

I have to agree, it's not the prettiest boat!

 

[Norman_E]

Why, in the name of all things that are made of GRP, would you want to put that on the back of a perfectly well designed boat???
...

Looking at some of the photos it appears that the steel gantry and davits have weighed the stern down so much that it needs the extra buoyancy aft! It has also been converted to wheel steering.

 

[CeesH]

@Norman_E, are you sure that the wheel steering is a conversion? I know that in The Netherlands there are several Centaur's with wheel steering and it look like they have been imported new with the wheel. The same counts for many Centaur's in the US.

As OP I didn't post to find the worst conversion ;-) I am really interested in a conversion as I am planning to cross the Atlantic and need more storage, I think they did a good job without destroying the Centaur's lines to much.

CeesH

 

[Daydream believer]

Be carefull you do not become " the ship the stern fell off" because Clarke & Dawes would have a field day

 

[JumbleDuck]

@Norman_E, are you sure that the wheel steering is a conversion? I know that in The Netherlands there are several Centaur's with wheel steering and it look like they have been imported new with the wheel. The same counts for many Centaur's in the US.

I have a copy of the original Centaur manual here, and it doesn't mention a steering wheel. On the other hand it doesn't mention the tiller either. Centaur ketches had wheel steering, as did the Chieftain centre-cockpit variant, so I am sure it would have been easy enough for the factory to fit a wheel to a sloop if asked.

 

[Seven Spades]

Well actually if you removed the daviits I think it looks rather good.

 

[Norman_E]

Well actually if you removed the daviits I think it looks rather good.


http://www.tribull1.com/Images/2012

I agree. The gantry and davits are out or proportion with the rest of the boat. I wonder if the extra water line length gained the boat a bit of extra speed.
I had thought that the wheel steering was a conversion, but if its original it may be all the better for that. Actually I quite like it as I have never really got on with tiller steering because most of the boats I have sailed have wheels.