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A Contessa 32 under sail, viewed from the port quarter. The Contessa 32 was designed by David Sadler in 1970, in response to demand for a larger version of his popular Contessa 26 which had been launched by the Jeremy Rogers boatyard five years earlier. The first two hulls were moulded by Jeremy Rogers in the same year. [4]
The search for a shallow draft ship settled on the Honduran registered SS Contessa, a Standard Fruit & Steamship Company refrigerated cargo and passenger vessel, built in 1930, that had operated between Caribbean ports and the United States. [8] [9] [10] The War Shipping Administration was empowered to take over all oceanic shipping.
The business was founded by Rogers in 1961, and by the early 1980s was employing 200 people in five factories in Lymington building the Contessa 26, Contessa 32 and the Doug Peterson designed Grand Prix 35s, 39s and 43s, and exporting the yachts worldwide. Although an insolvency forced production to stop, in 1995 the Contessa 32 moulds were ...
Contessa 26, Contessa 32, Sadler 25, Sadler 29, Sadler 32 David Sadler (13 February 1921 – 5 March 2014) was a British yacht designer who was responsible for a number of classic production yachts during the period from 1960 to 1980.
Contessa was a refrigerated cargo and passenger ship of 5,512 GRT built by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow for Vaccaro Brothers & Company launched 18 February 1930. [1] [2] [3] The ship, along with sister ship Cefalu, served ports in the United States (New York and New Orleans), Cuba, and Central America specifically La Ceiba, Honduras which is still a port for the fruit trade. [5]
Memorial to the 15 competitors who died in the 1979 Fastnet Race, Lissarnona, Cape Clear Island, Cork, Ireland; the 6 spectator names were added later. The 1979 Fastnet Race was the 28th Royal Ocean Racing Club's Fastnet Race, a yachting race held generally every two years since 1925 on a 605-nautical-mile (1,120 km; 696 mi) course from Cowes direct to the Fastnet Rock and then to Plymouth via ...
United States Sparkman & Stephens 65 Sloop ... 32 128:15:06:47 13 14 I 9333 Rolly Go: ... Peterson Contessa 43 12.95 Ian McGowan-Fyfe Retired-Leg 3
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