rufustr
10-06-2008, 06:51 PM
Just found this for sale.
I have no connection with the seller.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Sailing-Dingy-1938_W0QQitemZ180296807474QQihZ008QQcategoryZ15833 7QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
This boat has undergone a museum-quality restoration. It is as good today as it was when it was builtbuilt 70 years ago.
Copa-iba was built in 1938 and is a rare fully original example of fine boatbuilding workmanship. Lightly and strongly built she has the lines of a spirited performer and would have been a competitive dingy class sailer in her day.
She was built by Mr Nick Costain in Balmain Boatyard, Sydney, Australia. This information was found hand-written on a small paper name-plate fixed to the inside of the transom where it had lain concealed by layers of paint for more than 60 years.
She has her original mast, boom and all bronze fittings. She even has her original tan sails which were manufactured by Mr Col Maloney, craftsman sail maker, of Lane Cove, Sydney. Each sail still bears his original sail nameplates and apart from aging are in pristine original and usable condition.
Restoration of Copa-iba has been a slow process over 14 years. Where timbers needed replacement then only aged matching timbers were used. Every nail in her has been re-clenched and any coper rivets have been replaced. She is as good as new. Those who have seen her say that she should be placed in a museum and maybe this might be where she ends up but in the meantime she is ready to start her new sailing life.
Length: 11ft
Beam: 4ft 9 inches
Construction: Clinker built, bronze clench-nailed and riveted, fitted with new
buoyancy bags remade from the originals fitted
Materials: Hull Planking – Cedar ply
Transom & Thwarts – Australian Red Cedar
Ribs – Australian Ironbark
Mast & Boom – Spruce
Floors – Silky Oak
Rigging: Gunter rigged, mainsail and jib, original bronze fittings and paxolin
Blocks on running rigging
http://i22.ebayimg.com/03/i/001/11/f8/d36e_1.JPG
http://i9.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/11/f8/cbdd_1.JPG
I have no connection with the seller.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Sailing-Dingy-1938_W0QQitemZ180296807474QQihZ008QQcategoryZ15833 7QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
This boat has undergone a museum-quality restoration. It is as good today as it was when it was builtbuilt 70 years ago.
Copa-iba was built in 1938 and is a rare fully original example of fine boatbuilding workmanship. Lightly and strongly built she has the lines of a spirited performer and would have been a competitive dingy class sailer in her day.
She was built by Mr Nick Costain in Balmain Boatyard, Sydney, Australia. This information was found hand-written on a small paper name-plate fixed to the inside of the transom where it had lain concealed by layers of paint for more than 60 years.
She has her original mast, boom and all bronze fittings. She even has her original tan sails which were manufactured by Mr Col Maloney, craftsman sail maker, of Lane Cove, Sydney. Each sail still bears his original sail nameplates and apart from aging are in pristine original and usable condition.
Restoration of Copa-iba has been a slow process over 14 years. Where timbers needed replacement then only aged matching timbers were used. Every nail in her has been re-clenched and any coper rivets have been replaced. She is as good as new. Those who have seen her say that she should be placed in a museum and maybe this might be where she ends up but in the meantime she is ready to start her new sailing life.
Length: 11ft
Beam: 4ft 9 inches
Construction: Clinker built, bronze clench-nailed and riveted, fitted with new
buoyancy bags remade from the originals fitted
Materials: Hull Planking – Cedar ply
Transom & Thwarts – Australian Red Cedar
Ribs – Australian Ironbark
Mast & Boom – Spruce
Floors – Silky Oak
Rigging: Gunter rigged, mainsail and jib, original bronze fittings and paxolin
Blocks on running rigging
http://i22.ebayimg.com/03/i/001/11/f8/d36e_1.JPG
http://i9.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/11/f8/cbdd_1.JPG