Results matching “Aphrodite 101”

Check the sales information at SailBoatListings.com.  More information about the Aphrodite is shown at sailboatdata.com and aphrodite101.info.  A search of images for the class yields some nice pictures, Averisera is in there, too.  

Somebody... buy the boat!

On December 21st, the last day of Fall, a bunch of us were delivering the Gemini 105c, Felix, to Newport from Marion. Rambler 88 was out on sea trials in Newport Harbor.  I captured a couple of quick pictures on my iPhone.  I think she is pretty and looks fun to sail.  I read that she is a new design from Juan K.  Later in the day, we viewed R100 on the hard at Portsmouth.  I will be looking for a Rambler at winter races, maybe in the Caribbean for the "600" starting in February.  Roll on Rambler!

Design is a moving target.  Sometimes it is shape and sometimes materials.  Most of the time these days it is both.  American designers, years and years ago, preferred the wide shallow hulls to the English narrow deep ones.  Now we have wide hulls with very deep drafts and the boats really scoot.  A lot of the reason for speed is materials and computerized engineering.  Averisera was a quick and radical design in her day, the late 1970s.  Bob Perry wrote that she was an ultra-light when introduced, narrow and light.  The Aphrodite 101 was followed by the Olson 30 design which was even faster, narrow and light.  I think it was Tom Wylie who got the wide and light with water ballast movement going with his first Mini Trans-At 6.50.  

Any way one looks at it, R88 is the newest boat in a long list of developments in yacht design.  Fun thing to see her ghost by.  It will be fun to follow R88.

The cockpit must be improved in a few ways.  One is to improve the height of the "bridge deck" or entrance sill.  Another is to add cockpit drains.  The engine hatch in the cockpit floor is a whole other matter.

Here we are at the end of October  2014 and I measured for a hatchway revision.  I think a securely fastened and caulked plexiglass slider will do the job.  The height is not too much inconvenience.

Harwich Port Boat Yard and Nauset Marine teamed up to get the boat out of the water and into a storage lot off Queen Anne Road about a mile from our house.  The work plan is to strip the bottom paint and consider CopperCoat epoxy antifouling and remove the ugly mouse fur flocking on the interior headliner.

Ugle mouse fur flocking.  We call it mouse fur, don't know its real name.

A picture of the boat alongside the pontoon at Housatonic Boat Club in Stratford CT.  It was flat calm, the calm before the storm.  So began a wonderful adventure.  

In other news: Our friends, Bill and Maura from Constitution YC and Boston Sailing Center have a summer house in nearby Chatham, MA.  We hope to see them with their boat down in Nantucket Sound.  They have a Cal 33-2, Tupelo Honey.  This is a picture of both boats taken by Tim Shea in 2011, I believe.  Thanks, Tim.  Our boats are the same length and have similar PHRF handicaps.  They have hot and cold running water and standing headroom.  We don't.

There are some mutually exclusive events: Monhegan and Offshore 160 as well as the Martha's Vineyard Around the Island Race, the Gulf of Maine Solo Twin and the New England Solo Twin.  Averisera is considering Martha's Vineyard since two other Aphrodite 101s are coming out to play. Three boats make a class!

Could be a busy summer trying to get in the full slate of events.  

I think the links and dates are all good.  Some sites don't have official postings for the race days so I made a best guess. 

Meanwhile, Averisera is hauled out in East Boston and under cover.  Elizabeth and Norm are digging in to an OUPV course.  Norm is teaching most of the classes and Elizabeth is taking notes and tests.  I think she's going to ace the final!

Summer plans?  Maybe try to do a majority of the races in the short handed circuit.  A busy boat could get in a dozen such regattas in 2014.  Schedule to follow.

May 2008 at the Boston Sailing Center docks for open house for which we used Averisera.  Many other years we are skipper and crew on a BSC cruising boat, which is a lot easier on us and our boat.

Updated March 18, 2012

Mass Bay Schedule for 2012 

There were eighteen boats in two divisions, spinnaker and non-spinnaker.  The fleet started near yellow nun E at the eat end of the Small Boat Channel, raced out to the green blinker off Graves Light and back.  Light air nearly delayed the start.  The breeze filled in at about three o'clock, building to about 15 knots from the SW.

Remarkably, we carried the kite for the first four of the six mile first leg and four of the first six miles of the second leg.  Usually, we sail upwind in both directions around here.

Images of the crew, the way, way astern fleet, and the Tartan Ten, Tachy, a sloop similar in many ways to the Aphrodite 101.