Thendara
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Designer: Alan
Buchanan
Builder: St Osyth, 1961
Rig: Bermudan sloop
LOA: 33ft (10.06m)
LWL: 24ft (7.32m)
Beam: 9ft (2.75m)
Draft: 5ft 6in (1.68m)
Sail Number: 1853
Owner: Chris and Liz Day |
Thendara was built in St Osyth in 1961
to the design of Alan Buchanan to Lloyds 100A1 to be raced under
RORC rules.
With her pleasing traditional lines of the era,
Thendara is a 33 foot long keel Bermudan rig sloop and
is almost entirely original with her mahogany hull, teak cabin
and spruce mast. Other than the replacement of her original small
engine with a modern 20hp unit, all of her fittings are as they
were in 1961. In 1999 she had a new suit of sails, 4 headsails
and a spinnaker, cut to the original plans but with modern cloth.
For the past six years, in her current ownership,
Thendara has had continuous selective renovation over
the winters in preparation for the spring sailing. She enters
the inshore races in the Solent area, with favourites such as
Round the Island Race; and spends two weeks or so in Brittany
for a summer cruise. At the inspirational Americ's Cup Jubilee
in Cowes Thendara spent all ten days chasing her big
sisters around the Solent, and the introduction of Thendara
to the Mylne ketch, her namesake "Thendara" (BCYC:
009) raised cheers from both boats!
The interest in the high quality of yacht restoration
and the celebration of the beauty of these wooden boats fuel Thendara's
owners' pleasure and encourages their joy in her maintenance
and sailing.
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