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[DanTribe]

What a marvellous looking boat on PBO February cover.
Why don't we hear more about this class.

[Hang on; February? We haven't reached January yet].

 

[VicS]

What a marvellous looking boat on PBO February cover.
Why don't we hear more about this class.

 

[aquaplane]

 

[Tranona]

Second photo inside, and a reference to a Transatlantic crossing. Truly a Superyacht. However, the rudder did fall off and it had to be towed in. Clearly nothing is perfect.

 

[Twister_Ken]

This PBO also has a review of a Hustler 25.5, the properyot on which I cut my teeth. Truly a great issue, apart from the cover pic.

 

[DanTribe]

This PBO also has a review of a Hustler 25.5, the properyot on which I cut my teeth. Truly a great issue, apart from the cover pic.

Hustler 25.5, one of my favourite "proper" little yachts.
And a profile of Oliver Lee.
Best issue for some time.

 

[Seajet]

Second photo inside, and a reference to a Transatlantic crossing. Truly a Superyacht. However, the rudder did fall off and it had to be towed in. Clearly nothing is perfect.

Actually there's a bit more to it than the ' official ' story

The rudder lower fitting came off - the A22 uses a pintle the same dia' as a stanchion, the full height of the transom and the solid iroko rudder raises on that.

I saw Affairs' pintle afterwards and it almost had a knot tied in it !

I am not sure why the fitting failed, but I have the original build spec' from Andersons and originally they used peened over copper rivets for a lot of things when anyone nowadays would use stainless bolts so that may be a clue; I thought it was just Andersons being a traditional old yard but it seems this was still used in the early 70's by other yards too.

Now the interesting bit; the story is that Affair was abandoned on the reef but managed to lose her keel and float off, so she was reboarded and sculled over the line.

Knowing the keel set-up I never believed this, and a while ago someone quietly confirmed the keel was deliberately jettisoned to free her; a nice trick if one can do it I suppose !

Affair was shipped back and displayed at boat shows unrepaired, the bottom looked like it had been severely wire brushed from contact with the coral.

She is now immaculately restored to her race trim & colours, in Scottish waters.

All Anderson 22's have stainless rudder fittings, so if my copper rivet theory is correct the lot must have been retrofiited just before we bought no. 119 in 1977 ( Anderson Affair is no.86 ).

 

[Trop Cher]

And I see there's a mention of one of my previous boats Hunter Europa, haven't read it yet, but looking forward to it.

 

[prv]

Now the interesting bit; the story is that Affair was abandoned on the reef but managed to lose her keel and float off, so she was reboarded and sculled over the line.

Knowing the keel set-up I never believed this, and a while ago someone quietly confirmed the keel was deliberately jettisoned to free her; a nice trick if one can do it I suppose !

So did they hush up the jettisoning because racing rules say you have to cross the line with all the pieces of boat you started with?

I know a similar rule applies to crew - I saw someone taking a fun holiday race entirely too seriously getting very annoyed when his teenaged son leapt over the side and swam ashore (probably due to his dad taking it entirely too seriously) - because now he couldn't legally finish the race.

Pete

 

[Lakesailor]

You know, someone should start making those. There must be a market.....

 

[FullCircle]

You know, someone should start making those. There must be a market.....

And if you do the DIY Autopilot repair, you can buy one for free, or at most £500 as advertised for getting afloat !!

Of course, if the thing is going to drop a rudder or two, the autopilot may not be an essential piece of kit.

 

[Seajet]

So did they hush up the jettisoning because racing rules say you have to cross the line with all the pieces of boat you started with?

No, nothing like that, Bob Salmon refused to claim a finish as he'd had assistance; maybe it was just thought ' not cricket ' in those days - from a company point of view I'd rather have let it be known it was deliberate rather than just falling off !

Things were very different in those days though; the Anderson brochure shows one being towed by a small Simca car ( it's on the home page - if one scrolls down - of the website in my sig in the unlikely event anyone's bothered ).