Friday, November 7, 2008

                                                 WINGS  Sailing the Great Barrier Reef
More about the boats:
All the boats were built in Kaohsiong, Taiwan. The USCG Certificate of Documentation list the Gross as 22 tons; Net as 20 tons; Length as 47.1; and Breath as 14.3
As near as I can tell, there were 4 built, plus one other built by a NY firm and supervised by ABS. The original 4 have (had) vertical Maxwell-Nielson windless.
While the hull numbers are confusing, the original names run something like this:
“Capricorn Dancer III”; sold in Honk Kong to an American
“Waldo Pepper” which I renamed “Wings”
“Capricorn Dancer IV”; became “Erandil”; then went to a new owner.
“Tri Star”; later “Loco Motion” later “Zepher” now in Sydney
I tried to track via the USCG, a boat called "Polaris" that was sold in Ft. Lauderdale around 1999. It had a USCG # 1045812, and a hull # FJB 481061285.
There are rumors there may be one in Spain, and another in Friesland Martijn, Netherlands named "Happy Medicine". There are not enough boats for all these to be true! If you have some new information, please let us know! Thanks! Terry
Leaving Salalah, Oman, on the way to Aden, Yemen

Looking for owners!

I bought a 1984 Frers designed sloop in Ft. Laurdale. (dbrowneiii ). There were 4  of these built in Taiwan, to Frers plans M 787. (@gmail.com). I located one other by chance in the harbor in Sydney. With this blog, we have located another in Dubai. There was another for sale in Ft. Lauderdale that I tried to follow, but the new owner dropped it from the USCG list and I lost track of it. It was named Polaris, had a USCG Doc # 1045812 and a hull # FJB 481061285. There are also rumors of one in Spain, and another may be in Friesland Martijn, Netherlands, name "Happy Medicine". Some of this cannot be true! We would like to get in contact with the other owners, so we can swap stories and tell lies about our boats! If you know anything that can help us in this quest, please email me at the address imbedded in the text above! (Its an attempt at keeping out spam!) Thanks! Terry
I also have another blog site: http://www.wingscruising.com/ It chronicles our adventures while sailing around the world.