Boat Plans African Queen | Alex Thomson and His IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss

Boat Plans African Queen

The Transat Jacques Vabre is a 5,4000 mile ocean yacht race from Le Havre in Northern France to Atajai in Southern Brazil. There are four classes, each having their own race: Class 40, IMOCA 60, Multi 50 and Ultime.  In the IMOCA 60 Class, half of the fleet of the original 20 starters have been forced to abandon the race, including Alex Thomson and his co-skipper, Guillermo Altadill, aboard Hugo Boss. She was capsized by a rogue wave that dismasted her and caused structural damage to the extent that she was in danger of sinking. Alex and Guillermo were rescued by helicopter, and today I learned via Twitter that Hugo Boss has been taken to a Spanish port.

Links

Transat Jacques Vabre

https://www.imoca.org/en/races/19-transat-jacques-vabre.htm 

Alex Thomson Racing

http://www.alexthomsonracing.com

Alex Thomson airlifted to safety as his new boat is capsized by a rogue wave

http://www.yachtingworld.com/blogs/elaine-bunting/alex-thomson-airlifted-to-safety-as-his-new-hugo-boss-is-capsized-by-a-rogue-wave-68782 

Alex Thomson rescued from sinking yacht

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-34689459

Alex Thomson Racing at Twitter

https://twitter.com/ATRacing99

A video of Alex aboard Hugo Boss at the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre

https://www.facebook.com/AlexThomsonRacing/videos/vb.124956890851705/1221800827833967/?type=2&theater

Alex Thomson Racing - Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/AlexThomsonRacing/

Alex Thomson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Thomson_(sailor)

Extreme Sailing: why I’m going around the world again

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/11310563/Extreme-sailing-why-Im-going-round-the-world-again.html 

Alex Thomson - Incredible Yachtsman

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/alex-thomson-incredible-yachtsman.html

IMOCA 60

https://www.imoca.org/en/index/ 

IMOCA 60

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMOCA_60

IMOCA 60 The boat

http://www.barcelonaworldrace.org/all-about-the-race/the-boatStMichel-Virbac 

The Boat (IMOCA 60)

http://www.barcelonaworldrace.org/all-about-the-race/the-boat

Related Links

Barcelona World Race

http://www.barcelonaworldrace.org/all-about-the-race 

Barcelona World Race (2011)

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/barcelona-world-race.html 

Amazing Heli Footage of IMOCO 60 Edmund de Rochschilde in a breeze

http://www.boatson.tv/amazing-heli-footage-of-imoca-60-edmond-de-rothschild-in-a-breeze/

‘Mirabaud’ Dismasted (20111)

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/mirabaud-dismasted.html 

Owen Clarke Design IMOCA Open 60

http://www.owenclarkedesign.com/IMOCAOpen60

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Boat Plans Bolger | Maurice Griffiths and His ‘Eventide’ Yacht

Boat Plans Bolger

Ishani

Many yachtsmen will have affectionate memories of sailing and owning boats that were designed by Maurice Griffiths, and perhaps thousands of amateur boatbuilders will have had enormous satisfaction from building boats according to his plans.

I first got to know of Maurice Griffiths when I was a boy by being roped in to help with the building of a Griffiths Wild Duck.* My task was to drive copper nails though the hull planking and to hold a dolly while the roves and nails were hammered home on the inside. My reward was to occasionally sail with the owner and his son after her completion. His son Bill was my best friend, and it was because of his father that I became interested in boating and sailing. Bill’s dad encouraged me to build a canoe and to rig her with sails. That’s how it all began. The name of the canoe was ‘Tyrol’.**

When Bill was older, he built for himself an Eventide 26 that he named ‘Ishani’. Together we sailed her on the waters of the Bristol Channel and to the Isles of Scilly. Our biggest adventure was an extended cruise to La Corunna.*** We had hoped to sail to the Azores, but circumstances dictated otherwise.

With firsthand experience of building and sailing yachts designed by Griffiths, I have a passion for them, particularly his magical Eventide. She has a quality that excites and fires the imagination, just as does his books, especially, ‘The Magic of the Swatchways’.****

*Wild Duck http://www.eventides.org.uk/wildduck.htm 

**’Tyrol’ - a Shortened Scout Kayak http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/tyrol-shortened-scout-kayak.html 

***Cruise of the ‘Isahani’ - Part 1

http://bills-log.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/cruise-of-ishani-26-eventide-part-1.html

****The Magic of the Swatchways

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Swatchways-M-GRIFFITHS/dp/0713656913/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450550418&sr=8-1&keywords=the+magic+of+swatchways 

Other Links 

Maurice Griffiths

http://www.eventides.org.uk/maurice.htm

Maurice Griffiths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Griffiths 

Eventide Owners Group

http://www.eventides.org.uk/index.html 

The Eventide

http://www.eventides.org.uk/images2/YM%20Eventide%20write%20up%201980.JPG 

Eventide 24

http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=4834 

Eventide

http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/uncategorized/eventide-9508 

Eventide 24 Yacht

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6dAtAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=eventide+24+yacht&source=bl&ots=NwYKeJmxq7&sig=uRLhnrCaTqlV_pevFNYRJ47g8fE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwid5uyMtOjJAhUHLhoKHaCEA9U4FBDoAQg3MAU#v=onepage&q=eventide%2024%20yacht&f=false

How Star Yachts Built a 25’ Eventide - in Pictures

http://intheboatshed.net/2014/10/12/how-star-yachts-built-a-25ft-eventide-in-pictures/

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.581057085260787.1073741825.172238022809364&type=3

24’ Eventide at Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.553458448020651.125534.172238022809364&type=3 

Eventide 24 for Sale £1,450

http://andyseedhouse.co.uk/sales/boatdetails2.php?boatid=2096 

Eventide 24 for Sale £2,500

http://yachts.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=446848 

1963 Eventide 24 for Sale £6,950

http://www.boats.com/sailing-boats/1963-eventide-24-5410501/#.VnWNhIR5ii4

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