Historical monohulls

Yess !!!
Zeeslang (Seasnake) was exhibited at Düsseldorf Boatshow one or two years ago.
Original Plyboat from the fifties with small rounded " plastic cabin" !

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f1rdlEQ7Jj0/Um37fwy6kbI/AAAAAAAAaLo/5DOE7PMbSvo/s1600/img 169.jpg

Zeeslang became in South Africa Royal Cape One-Design ( ROCD), named Black Soo. These boats got bigger cabins.
That was in the early sixties. Later boats were entirely built in GRP.

http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=490


Black Soos are very fast and very seaworthy boats.
Here some experiences :

"I sailed RCOD's for 6 years. My Dad, my brother and I raced "Reaction" (RCOD 38) from Richards Bay to Durban (about 80+Nm) and came second over the line behind a 76' maxi. We clubbed the rest of the fleet and won on handicap. We had about 40knt. up the tailpipe surfing at 22 knots in 20' rollers in the Agulhas current. On the day my dad bought the boat, we had a 60kn. South Wester nail the fleet. There were dismastings and other mayhem. We got home fine. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING UNSAVOURY ABOUT THE RCOD. The RCOD is singularly one of the most safe and seaworthy 30' yachts on the ocean today. Enjoy it if you have one...


PODIUM FINISH FOR FAGAN IN HEINEKEN CAPE TO BAHIA YACHT RACE

80-year old Gawie Fagan and his crew on Suidoos 2 sailed across the finish line in Salvador to complete the 3380-mile Heineken Cape to Bahia yacht race in 21 days 22 hours and 24 minutes to take the third place on handicap. This is widely considered a remarkable accomplishment for the minuscule 9-metre Royal Cape One Design Suidoos 2 and her crew. Suidoos 2 is not only the oldest yacht in the fleet, skippered by the oldest skipper in the race, but bar the two mini-Transats she was also the smallest in the fleet.


ckdboats.blogspot.com/2010/01/...lang-connection.html :
I still own Foxy Lady which is a fibreglass RCOD. And yes these little boats still go like smoke. During the 2008 Vasco we regularly surfed at speeds of 18 kts. After the race the log and gps showed max speeds of 22 and 23.5 kts respectively. Neither of the drivers remembers achieving this speed but we may have been too busy watching the spinnaker leech to think about the log. We sailed a there and back race on Sunday ( abt 14 nm ) and finished first over the line and handicap. Although Foxy is for sale ( I have to sell her to finace refurbishing my Morgan 31 ) I cannot think of a better budget boat for the Sa coast. Her replacement, the L26 is a good boat, but you cant do ocean passages on one. As you probably know Suidoos II has 4 Atlantic crossings under her keel ( 2 South Atlantic Races from which she returned on her own bottom )."


A lot of Black Soos have survived, some still win races :

"RCOD’s competed in almost all offshore races in South Africa, made a number of podium finishes and held many speed records ie. Line honours in the 1971Vasco da Gama race 2, Richard’s Bay to Durban in 7 hours 13 minutes (Sun Tonic, 1990) and Durban to Richards Bay in 7 hours 03 minutes (Sun Tonic, 1990).3 In 2006 the famous Suidoos 2 made 3rd position on corrected time in the Cape to Bahia race.

Reaction also had a number of podium finishes. She raced from Richards Bay to Durban (date?) and came second over the line behind a 76ft maxi and won on handicap.4 *She came first on handicap in her class in the 2009/2010 Twilight Series at the RCYC and for three consecutive years (2010-2012) she won the Cape Town to Mykonos race in the Mykonos Offshore Regatta in her class. In the 2010 Governor’s Cup she was the 6th boat to arrive at St Helena island and finished 2nd to Our Dianne on corrected time in the IRC class, only 1 day 14 hours 8 mins behind Our Dianne, even after she lost 48 hours by diverting to Langebaan with a broken rudder that had to be fixed."

Some were restored

https://picasaweb.google.com/daniel.look/Odette?authkey=Gv1sRgCJKnkNXsiPzhEw


At last,
The HP of the lightblue original " Zeeslang"

http://eliasbaumann.wix.com/zeeslang


pogo

 

Trailersailer 1955 Uffa Fox

http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=101

pogo

 

How about a well preserved 17th century Pirate ship?

Just kidding. We built her in our garage over the past two years.

 

Hello Pogo!

I've restored the website and is called now Zeeslang http://www.zeeslang.co.za/

Zeeslang Yacht

 

Looking at this van de Stadt, I feel embarrassed as a Kiwi for John Spencer and "for ourselves" - as a certain recent and brilliant AC helmsman would say. We knew Spencer was influenced by Black Soo - but didn't realize by how much. His Sirocco hull design was really more like a direct copy - and especially the keel shape. And we all thought he was the original light displacement guru down here. If he was still around, would jeer at him. Okay, maybe not, but would poke a stick. Jim Young knew the truth - and in those days, made himself unpopular by saying so.

 

As you are talking about Black Soo...
I broke my keel today. I am one of those who restore / restored a Black Soo RCOD. I had it sandblasted and during the process of fairing the keel it fell and broke. I just went away to get fresh sandpaper... Lucky Day

Now what?
I did almost all of the work myself and kind of lacking the funds for a new casting...
Any smart and affordable Ideas?

Daniel