Fisher and Paykel ketch

[capnsensible]

Anyone else remember this classic? Winner of the 1989/90 Whitbread.

Fab restoration job, looks great. Didn't even mind getting held up by them getting splashed in the travel hoist dock last week! Got a good look then. Photo is today.

 

[Minerva]

Fisher&Paykel were in the 89/90 race, but it was won by steinlager.

Looks like a hoot to sail though!

 

[capnsensible]

Fisher&Paykel were in the 89/90 race, but it was won by steinlager.

Looks like a hoot to sail though!

Yes you are right!!

1989–1990 Whitbread Round the World Race - Wikipedia

 

[Frogmogman]

Anyone else remember this classic? Winner of the 1989/90 Whitbread.

Fab restoration job, looks great. Didn't even mind getting held up by them getting splashed in the travel hoist dock last week! Got a good look then. Photo is today.

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I wanted to buy a Fisher & Paykel two drawer dishwasher when we did our kitchen, but they don’t have a distributor in France, so I decided against it. As one of the appliances that tend to need repairing, it seemed a bit nuts to bring one from the UK to a country with no after sales service.

A shame, really, as the design seemed so perfect for our needs, but I did wonder at the time how much of my enthusiasm for the idea was driven by my subliminal love of the Whitbread boat…

 

[Bouba]

Fisher and Paykel are a New Zealand company from way back...everything back in the day was made by them

 

[lektran]

They're owned by Haier now though, so essentially a Chinese company. Not sure if they still manufacture in NZ

 

[Bobc]

That was Grant Dalton's boat (he who is now the CEO of the NZ Americas Cup team). Came a close second to Pete Blake in Steinlager.

 

[rotrax]

Fisher and Paykel are a New Zealand company from way back...everything back in the day was made by them

Had one of their excellent-but power hungry-fridges in our NZ Apartment.

 

[Bouba]

Had one of their excellent-but power hungry-fridges in our NZ Apartment.

There was a time when no matter who’s home you visited...they all had the same fridge, stove, crockery....even jam

 

[Beelzebub]

They're big in medical electronics, particularly in humidification of breathing systems:-

Home | Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

 

[capnsensible]

I'm fairly sure it's a private owner now who has kept the name.

 

[DJE]

Anyone else remember this classic? Winner of the 1989/90 Whitbread.

Fab restoration job, looks great. Didn't even mind getting held up by them getting splashed in the travel hoist dock last week! Got a good look then. Photo is today.

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Was she the one who sailed through the spectator fleet at one of the starts and lost her mizzen mast in a collision with an anchor boat?

 

[capnsensible]

That was The Card.

 

[capnsensible]

Found this

In 1989 - 90 the figures stayed low. First was Fisher and Paykel under
Grant Dalton to lose the mizzenmast on the way to Punta del Este in
Uruguay. The most spectacular dismasting happened at the restart in
Auckland when The Card’s mizzenmast hooked the masthead of a 28ft cruising
boat and pulled her horizontal, and ripping the mizzenmast out of the boat
within hours of the start. It was salvaged by a third party and later
shipped to Punta. The Card sailed on as a sloop.

 

[Frogmogman]

The Card was another Bruce Farr ketch.

Sadly she ended up on the rocks in the Whitsundays sone years ago.

 

[Minerva]

Martella was another maxi in the 1989 race. Last saw her on the naughty dock in the Azores 5 years ago somewhat neglected and using tractor tyres as fenders. Apparently been confiscated when caught being used to smuggle drugs.

 

[jlavery]

That was The Card.

Yep - saw it happen. I was on Creightons Naturally.

 

[jlavery]

Martella was another maxi in the 1989 race. Last saw her on the naughty dock in the Azores 5 years ago somewhat neglected and using tractor tyres as fenders. Apparently been confiscated when caught being used to smuggle drugs.

I forgot Martela was salvaged - she lost her keel after rounding Cape Horn.

Watching the Maiden documentary recently, when the Maiden crew are getting stressed about water in the bilge, you can understand their concern. Another competitor's just lost their keel, and they've got water coming in...

 

[Helidan]

Tracy Edwards mentions this yacht quite a few times in her book.

 

[E39mad]

Saw F&P cross the line in Southampton - half an hour after Steinlager which had line honours on every leg. They looked rather peeved to have been pipped again to the post. I have a picture of it somewhere crossing the line but not on my PC. IIRC Steinlager had a fractional main mast whereas F&P had a masthead forestay. Also IRRC the Card was originally a sloop but the hull lengthened and the ketch rig added.