Tradewind 35

[doug748]

What I am trying to say is that it sounds like a load of old flannel.

 

[Robin]

What I am trying to say is that it sounds like a load of old flannel.

Then you would be totally wrong as well as being completely ill informed.

Do please look up the differences between the APPARENT wind direction and speed as seen on board and recorded on the masthead instruments and the TRUE wind direction and speed as would be seen if you were sat on a nearby rock. I would guess you didn't pass 'O' level applied maths?

 

[DalianXpat13]

Tradewinds is developed by Washington-based Sandlot Games that is dedicated to creating casual and social games.

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

Tradewinds is developed by Washington-based Sandlot Games that is dedicated to creating casual and social games.

 

[jac]

Tradewinds is developed by Washington-based Sandlot Games that is dedicated to creating casual and social games.

Muppet

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Muppet

Nah, they were amusingly clever

 

[laffinskip]

As an owner for 15 yrs of an Endurance 40 I would not agree or disagree with some of the comments made.Long keels tend to be slightly slower in light airs,but returning from guernsey to brixham in a force 6 gusts of 7 some yrs ago with my son & daughter,we passed our friends who had set off 1 hr ahead of us in a ----------& were sat in the pub waiting for them for 2 hrs.When they finally arrived we heard a tale of woe slamming,banging,seas breaking over them etc (their boat was 39 ft) My daughter slept most of the way,whilst my son & I chatted in the cockpit.
The other boat was fin & skeg.
Each to his own but I know my choice.

 

[laffinskip]

Nah, they were amusingly clever

looks like another pissing contest has started

 

[laffinskip]

PS forgot to put my two pennarth in.
Both the tradewind 35 & endurance 35 are superb sea boats,sailed em both.
Cannot comment on the nic 35 as never sailed one,

 

[alant]

Tradewind 35, Endurance 35 or Nicholson 35?

Pros/cons & which would you buy?

Just to resurrect this thread, before purchasing my lottery ticket, so musing about these types & having just admired a Tradewind 35 (Eagle Wing I think) on a mooring in Lymington, how do they compare with a Biscay 36?

 

[robmcg]

Just to resurrect this thread, before purchasing my lottery ticket, so musing about these types & having just admired a Tradewind 35 (Eagle Wing I think) on a mooring in Lymington, how do they compare with a Biscay 36?

Pretty similar I think. We spent last season with a Biscay moored next to us (the one for sale with Red Ensign) and it was over wintered in the same yard as us. Very similar underwater profile and dimensions. Bizarrely, even very similar layout to ours down below too. Big difference is it was a ketch. Looked in superb condition.

 

[Matelot Joe]

My choice and no regrets.

 

[jwilson]

Tradewind 35, Endurance 35 or Nicholson 35?

Pros/cons & which would you buy?

Nic 35 every time, though preferably a late one with a conventional engine/prop layout. In my opinion the speed/seaworthiness/comfort/handling balance got just about right at the early IOR fin and skeg era: Nic 35, She 36 (best of the lot), deep keel Rival 34. Also quite a few others lesser known boats - Ericson, Ohlson etc.

Disadvantages are narrow sterns so no big aft cabins, usually big genoa small main sailplans, but they would go to windward in any conditions, revert to right way up smartish in extremis, and all the good ones were lovely to helm, which some of the slightly older generation long-keelers were not always.

 

[KellysEye]

>. Owner did complain that she would not tack well - had to start the engine to get her round

The trick with a long keeler is to bear away and build up speed then tack, then no need for an engine.

 

[Rivers & creeks]

If you have to tack then your passage plan was incorrect.

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

http://s725.photobucket.com/user/johnscottorn/media/AmblerofArne.jpg.html?sort=6&o=52

with my Tradewind but.........

Nic 35's ......get a good one and you'll never regret it.

S.

 

[Matelot Joe]

Great photo Scotty.

 

[alant]

>. Owner did complain that she would not tack well - had to start the engine to get her round

The trick with a long keeler is to bear away and build up speed then tack, then no need for an engine.

+ use headsail aback, to push it around.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I have enjoyed reading the thread, surprised no one has mentioned the Vancouver 34 and 36 same genre but for me as a ex V34 owner a Dawn 39 or perhaps 41 would come out high on the list. Also having raced a She 36 a completely refitted one would be nice also an Ericson 41, oh the list goes on maybe I might just be tempted back on the water again.

 

[E39mad]

I have enjoyed reading the thread, surprised no one has mentioned the Vancouver 34 and 36 same genre but for me as a ex V34 owner a Dawn 39 or perhaps 41 would come out high on the list. Also having raced a She 36 a completely refitted one would be nice also an Ericson 41, oh the list goes on maybe I might just be tempted back on the water again.

Indeed ....anyone interested in these boats should seek out a Yachting Monthly test from 1994 iirc which included the Tradewind 35, Rustler 36, Vancouver 34, Dawn 39, Barbican and one other I cannot remember all pitched against each other.