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[Angélique]

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[Rurudyne]

That's one way to not have to pass an annual emissions test.

Now, what would be really impressive is a Bolger Wyoming running with some skysails. Probably take more than 3 wheels though.

 

[Eric Sponberg]

I now own Corroboree

Over the last few months, my wife and I have negotiated the purchase of the very first boat I was ever commissioned to design--Corroboree. I received the commission in 1984 and she was built for American owners in New Zealand in 1986-87 out of Western Red Cedar, Kauri, and epoxy. She came to the US on a container ship in 1988 and has sailed the Great Lakes ever since. My wife and I had been looking for a boat to buy, and this has always been one of my favorites, for obvious reasons. The son of my original owner has owned it for a number of years, and he was in a position to sell it, as we were to buy it. Long story short, after sea trials, marine survey, etc., etc., she arrived this afternoon on a truck from Michigan, and is now sitting in her new home St. Augustine. We'll be on the hard for a few months making repairs and upgrades, and we'll be sailing this summer after a long, long time off the water.

A new life begins.

Eric

 

[hoytedow]

That is a beautiful design.

 

[upchurchmr]

Very nice, I bet it is fun having it.
When are you going to put a mast aft rig on it?

 

[outdoorplay]

ha guys Im new here, been reading a lot "thank you for all the great info"

but when I came across this I thought to my self, ha this is me with building a boat for the first time.

I am a good builder and designer in other fields, my own home, trailers, sprinter vans, off road race buggy,,,,,,, BUT I have not built a boat before.

I have been education my self on different Hall designs and think I have come up with a Power catamaran idea, that will best fit my needs. (i'll post a picture, but what I going to build will be a lot different

but any way saw this and thought it was fitting for not just myself.

hope it makes you LOL

 

[outdoorplay]

though I should post some of the other things I have built
the house I built from the ground up, (I only hired out stucco and concrete)

wine rack
play house for a friend
the boat was a 3 year project as time and money became available, had to stirp her down to the bar hall and re-build her, did all the work my self.

so know looking at building something to play with

 

[Leo Lazauskas]

Very nice, I bet it is fun having it.
When are you going to put a mast aft rig on it?

Give him a chance.
He forgot it had a boomerang, but it just came back to him.

 

[hoytedow]

Welcome to the forum, outdoorplay. I did not know the Democrats had their own navy!

 

[Eric Sponberg]

That is a beautiful design.

Thanks!

Very nice, I bet it is fun having it.
When are you going to put a mast aft rig on it?

Never--it stays with the rig it has. Had I the money and time, I would opt for a slightly longer cat ketch, but this is a very favorable compromise and opportunity.

Eric

 

[SamSam]

Over the last few months, my wife and I have negotiated the purchase of the very first boat I was ever commissioned to design--Corroboree. I received the commission in 1984 and she was built for American owners in New Zealand in 1986-87 out of Western Red Cedar, Kauri, and epoxy. She came to the US on a container ship in 1988 and has sailed the Great Lakes ever since. My wife and I had been looking for a boat to buy, and this has always been one of my favorites, for obvious reasons. The son of my original owner has owned it for a number of years, and he was in a position to sell it, as we were to buy it. Long story short, after sea trials, marine survey, etc., etc., she arrived this afternoon on a truck from Michigan, and is now sitting in her new home St. Augustine. We'll be on the hard for a few months making repairs and upgrades, and we'll be sailing this summer after a long, long time off the water.

A new life begins.

Eric

Very nice!
It took awhile, but I finally figured out it wasn't ventilation screens but stainless kick plates on the step risers.
How was the rounded molding for the doorways etc made?

 

[Eric Sponberg]

Very nice!
It took awhile, but I finally figured out it wasn't ventilation screens but stainless kick plates on the step risers.
How was the rounded molding for the doorways etc made?

Thank, Sam. The kick plates are brass, actually. The rounded moldings look to be milled out of solid Kauri. All the interior trim is Kauri, as are the two outer veneers of the hull, each about 4 mm thick.

I learned from my previous owner, who learned recently from his Kiwi friends, that there has not been a Kauri boat built in New Zealand since about 1992.

Corroboree is a rare bird, indeed.

Eric

 

[viking north]

And of course those rounded openings are not just pretty faces - that treatment imparts great strength ,no doubt chewing up many pattern sheets and router bits. Eric just beautiful workmanship and design ---

 

[Eric Sponberg]

And of course those rounded openings are not just pretty faces - that treatment imparts great strength ,no doubt chewing up many pattern sheets and router bits. Eric just beautiful workmanship and design ---

Thanks, I think this boat will do us well. Our dream plans are to do trial sails to the Bahamas and the Caribbean over the next few years, then go around the world, taking Corroboree back to her birthplace in New Zealand.

Eric

 

[Rurudyne]

Nice boat.

Ah ... and here's a truly random ethics question: now that you (as the designer as well) own the boat could you sell plans?