Fathers Day

So I treated myself to a new (additional) boat as above (TUFFLE BIRD). She is an IP 25 Motor Sailer with a 30 hp Yanmar engine and three berths.

The hull was made by Island Plastics. The designers were Bill Waite and Fred Parker and it was built by Halls Boatyard in 1977 (re-engineered in 1996). She is a Bermudan sloop with a masthead rig and should be a good seagoing safe boat which is easy for me to manage on my own or with one crew.

Dimensions LOA: 23 ft 9"; LWL: 20 ft 9"; Beam: 9 ft 1"; Displacement: 2545 kg; Draft: 3 ft 3".

Halls Boatyard are about to clean and re anti-foul the hull before dropping her in the water near the end of the Twizzle for what's left of the season. I'll use MABEL as her tender.