Ed Dubois "Panda".

[Frogmogman]

The Ed Dubois One Tonner Panda is up for auction in the Netherlands, if anyone is in the market for a project.

I remember when she was launched, and how cool we all thought she was.

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[Bajansailor]

Ah, the golden (?) years when IOR was the rule.
We have another Dubois design, an almost sistership to Panda called 'Immigrant' based here in Barbados for many years now - I don't think that Immigrant was her original name though. She is also constructed of aluminium, and was built by Joyce Marine in Southampton.

She now cruises and occasionally races fairly sedately with a small cruising mainsail and a non over-lapping roller furling jib.
But in her heyday in the 80's and 90's she was unstoppable - I remember she won Antigua Race Week overall one year, which was a very impressive achievement. Some friends of mine were their mother ship that year, providing accommodation and food for all of Immigrant's crew (as the interior is very spartan, just a few pipe cots, a sink and a loo), and Lucy attributes her cooking (and comfortable bunks) to being a major part in their success overall!

And I was just reminiscing about other old IOR boats I have come across out here - Ron Holland's Golden Apple and Silver Apple have both taken part in ARC's in the past, along with the lovely Loujaine, now in full cruising mode, but still quite unstoppable.
So then I had to google Loujaine, but all I could find was a mention of her on P 4 of this long thread on Sailing Anarchy about Old IOR Designs - one poster mentions Passion and Loujaine were in a tussle, and one tee boned the other. One was ally (Loujaine?), the other composite, and they note that the only thing that stopped her from cutting the other boat in half was the sheet tracks....
https://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?/topic/60466-older-well-known-ior-boats/page/4/

 

[Frogmogman]

Ah, the golden (?) years when IOR was the rule.
We have another Dubois design, an almost sistership to Panda called 'Immigrant' based here in Barbados for many years now - I don't think that Immigrant was her original name though. She is also constructed of aluminium, and was built by Joyce Marine in Southampton.

She now cruises and occasionally races fairly sedately with a small cruising mainsail and a non over-lapping roller furling jib.
But in her heyday in the 80's and 90's she was unstoppable - I remember she won Antigua Race Week overall one year, which was a very impressive achievement. Some friends of mine were their mother ship that year, providing accommodation and food for all of Immigrant's crew (as the interior is very spartan, just a few pipe cots, a sink and a loo), and Lucy attributes her cooking (and comfortable bunks) to being a major part in their success overall!

And I was just reminiscing about other old IOR boats I have come across out here - Ron Holland's Golden Apple and Silver Apple have both taken part in ARC's in the past, along with the lovely Loujaine, now in full cruising mode, but still quite unstoppable.
So then I had to google Loujaine, but all I could find was a mention of her on P 4 of this long thread on Sailing Anarchy about Old IOR Designs - one poster mentions Passion and Loujaine were in a tussle, and one tee boned the other. One was ally (Loujaine?), the other composite, and they note that the only thing that stopped her from cutting the other boat in half was the sheet tracks....
Older well known IOR Boats

I remember racing against Loujaine back in the early eighties, when she was a bit of a bandit thanks to her age allowance.

The computing lecturer who tried to introduce us to the joys of FORTRAN 77 in the first year at Southampton was navigator on Loujaine at the time.

FWIW, Loujaine started out as Prospect of Whitby III, an S&S design built in aluminium by Huisman for Arthur Slater for the 1971 Admirals cup, of which she was one of the victorious British team, along with Ted Heath’s Morning Cloud II and Cervantes IV. She was renamed Loujaine by Sir Maurice Laing when he bought her in 1972. He kept the boat until 1989.

 

[michael_w]

I was onboard Loujaine that day. We called for water on the mark. Acknowledged. Then Passion closed the door and we carried on. In the immediate aftermath Passion's crew duffed up their helmsman good and proper.