Watch out for her as she cruises up the coast.
www.ulladullatimes.com.au/story/1656833/notorious-ship-sails-in/?cs=1480
Not everyone needs nor wants a plastic fantastic.
I went on board today as she is moored in Ulladulla at the moment till the weekend, then she is up to Wollongong Harbour and then Sydney. They at the moment are only going up the coast as far as Iluka/Yamba in Northern NSW.
The entire boat is hand built from hand adzed Macrocarpa, the hull is FOUR inches thick. The modern stuff is dacron sails, modern anti fouling paint on the bottom plus a turbo charged six cylinder diesel. She even has an open fire place below decks for when things get chilly.
Notice the size of the timbers in comparison to the lady coming down the steps in pic.1
Below decks is surprisingly roomy given the massive size of everything, the forward mast (just partially visible in pic.2 is nearly fourteen inches thick at the sole level.
pic.3 Open fireplace with port and starboard forepeak bunk spaces just behind, the knee visible in the top left corner is nearly six inches thick.
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Can you get them to put up a few paintings....or lay out a doily or something?
No need, the entire boat is already a work of art, why would you want to cover it up.
au.images.search.yahoo.com/images;_ylt=A0oGkmDU6PBRiSQAT7BAvolQ?p=Notorious+sailing&fr=ipad&fr2=piv-web
He he ...no sheet.....but it looks all hard and cold....like I need slippers and a pillow to sit on.
Do they have a giant medical kit full of needles for removing daily splinters?
Most of those pics show her with three masts, she now only has two, as the aft mast didn't contribute much to sailing performance. In order to address balance issues a bowsprit was fitted to which a more traditional jib is to be fitted.
Follow her progress here www.facebook.com/notorioustheship
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He he ...no sheet.....but it looks all hard and cold....like I need slippers and a pillow to sit on.
Do they have a giant medical kit full of needles for removing daily splinters?
No splinters at all, in fact it has a nice tactile feel about it. Anyway, the bedding all looked nice and soft.
It's a beautiful ship, that's for sure. The thing I like...iis that they have followed a dream and persued it to the end.
All hobbies or loves or dreams etc are an outward expression of ones self and inner feelings. The guy that built this obviously has a love of the ocean, history, wood as a building medium, those type of craft, and a challenge.
Amazing.
Tradition is one thing but I will take a modern sloop any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Thirty four feet is enough.
I noticed the interior had an adze finish but the ships planking has a perfect machine finish!
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Tradition is one thing but I will take a modern sloop any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Thirty four feet is enough.
30 feet is enough, it's how you use it!
Chatting to the mooring contractor a couple of days ago. he is about to put a mooring down for a 46 foot ex hobart racer. Blokes first boat, wanted to know if I would help him bring it down and give him some pointers.
Whilst I have the utmost respect for the builder and the work that goes into a boat like this, there are distinct advantages that go with design evolution that is not rule constrained. Looks like it could roll - just a touch, when downhill with any real swell.... Massive amount of windage in that freeboard which must also make life exciting in anything 20knts plus.
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Whilst I have the utmost respect for the builder and the work that goes into a boat like this, there are distinct advantages that go with design evolution that is not rule constrained. Looks like it could roll - just a touch, when downhill with any real swell.... Massive amount of windage in that freeboard which must also make life exciting in anything 20knts plus.
Interesting that you should mention the roll factor, I spoke with the crew about that and they assure me that it isn't as bad as what you may first think when looking at the hull.
The builder is a carpenter/furniture maker so has quite a good grasp of how to build things without them falling apart. Sail area they tell me is about 1000 square feet, which I must admit had me not quite believing that number, I would have thought more. I guess the fact that she has been from Paynesville to Geelong and then to Hobart and now up the coast means it must work. What we don't know is how many of those miles were done under mechanical genoa.
Cool. We should get to see her when she reaches Sydney. Imagine the havoc she'd cause amidst the weekend races.
Had a good look at notorious when she was in Paynesville.truly worth checking out she's a work of art.was there on a cold winter day with fire roaring below decks I didn't want to leave.amazing.
