Remember Carter Ragtime Peppermint?

[DownWest]

Seems Ok as of the 12th? on his blog.
Frances 26 truly lovely boat

 

[smth448]

I know she used to be based in Ramsgate at the end of the eighties and early nineties. It may be worth contacting the Royal Temple Yacht Club there to find out more form that time.

Looking at your pictures of the stern I think it probably looks a lot worse than it actually is. Many racing boats built in the seventies and eighties were "bumped" to gain a better rating under the old IOR rule. It was common for foam to be glued to the stern at the measurement point to try to fool the rule into thinking that the boat was heavier than it actually was. If you do some careful digging in the foan you may find good solid fibreglass a few milimetres down. If so just take all the foam and wood battens off and restore the boat back to its original shape. That will probably be better than trying to apply glass fibre above your head. I did this to an old 3/4 tonner I had many years ago.

Be careful though and dont damage the original boat.

 

[boguing]

Not only did it reduce rating, but also went some way to get rid of the horribly pinched sterns that the rule created. I'd keep it or increase it!

Burette, have you considered making a rough upside down cradle, or laying it down on its' side and then flipping it the other way? Done slowly, it would be very safe [with good padding]. Horrible to work upwards.

 

[TimBennet]

I have a nasty feeling Chuck Paine is no longer with us either . . .

We're all getting older, but don't write us off yet.

 

[Burette]

Ok guys,

Thank you all for your replies. Sorry for answering late but I thought ybw would have told me when someone answered...

I finished re-building the stern. It was not possible to remove all that dirty work off, because the former stern had simply been cut off!
The hull paint is brilliant but I kept the nice design (as you can see on attached file)

I found some newer "racing sails", a bit better that ones on, on the picture. They were made for Figaro1 and have spent some twenty years into a bag...

Going to ask for more information to Crouch clubs and try to find Yves Tanton!

Thank you

 

[sarabande]

I did wonder if the story had an ending !

Well done for seeing it through, and many happy racing miles to both of you.

 

[shogi]

I'm very happy with mine Carter 30. Very safe and I would say fast as well.

 

[Mei Mac]

Lat week I bought the original Carter 35 called 'Ragtime'. She now has a red hull and is lying in Pwllheli, north Wales. She appears on the March 1992 issue of yachting World. Doe sanyone by any chance have a copy? I would love a scan to print, frame hang in the galley!

 

[JohnMcE]

Hi folks,

I am a french guy living in Brest (west end of Brittany).

I've bought a very nice ship in 2010. She is called Peppermint and she is a Carter Ragtime!!!
I could see in that forum some people (one or two guys) talking about her.
I am working on giving her back her beauty and strongness:
- the paint is not brillant anymore
- the deck, meaning the wood in the sandwhich of the deck, has drunk a bit too much of water)
- the rear of the hull (the part in the water) has some rotten fiber, it is on the part that has been built over the former hull.

I would like to have some information (stories, results, design details...) about her. I know she has been built in WindBoats, Norwich; but i sent a mail to the owner and he had no information.
I attached a photo to this post. Hope this help you to remind her. I am going to keep the painting style, just make it fresher!

Thanks

So, this reply is about 9 years too late but I used to own Peppermint from about 1990 to 1995 and raced her out of Royal Corinthians at Cowes. As some have observed above, none too successfully but yards of fun. Do you still own her/where is she now?

 

[Dilemma]

I used to race in EAORA races in the 1970s on a UFO 34, then on a Contessa 32, out of Levington.. I remember both Apache and Peppermint, from W Mersea and Burnham on Crouch respectively. That was in the pre Decca/GPS where the fugawi days, with huge masthead kites, racing around the muddy East Coast.

 

[Daydream believer]

I used to race in EAORA races in the 1970s on a UFO 34, then on a Contessa 32, out of Levington.. I remember both Apache and Peppermint, from W Mersea and Burnham on Crouch respectively. That was in the pre Decca/GPS where the fugawi days, with huge masthead kites, racing around the muddy East Coast.

So did I . The UFO I sailed on was called DONUFO. Owned by Don Izzat. I did 6 years of EAORA races with them after I stopped doing them in my Stella ( took too long)Prior to that I did them with John Dungey in Ocean Beetle- who won the Round Britain race on handicap- navigation was easy because of all the light ships & one could use RDF & get within 5 miles of one's position !!!! Handy in the Thames One really only needed a compass & echo sounder- still do

When you talk about huge kites you must recall running down the channels between banks with spinnakers & bloopers in f6 doing the "Holman Roll" desperately scared someone might come along side & that you might broach into the side of them. Fantastic fun- because Don was paying the bills not us!!!!!

I do remember Pepermint & the stir it caused when she turned up with that sugar scoop stuck on the stern.I do not think it did her much good though. The one that really stands in my memory was Tumblehome, who wiped the floor with them all. (saw her in Belgium circa 6 years ago.) But I think she had the wrong rating for a couple of seasons so did not show in the results early on. A real flier in light airs. There were a couple of Carter 30s who did some EAORA races but they were never very successful.