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N2711


Name: Vertigo

Design: Cobra

Designer: Mal MacDougall

Year built: 1973

Build type: Professional

Builder: Thames Services

Construction: GRP

Hull type: Single Bottom

ntoa
27-Feb-2007

The life of N2711 Vertigo.  Design: Cobra, designed by: Mal MacDougall in 1973
Previous boat names: Kharapa, Wotalowdacobras,.

JohnMurrell
27-Feb-2007

Pics taken on Millbay, Salcombe in August 1973

Dave Croft
14-Aug-2007

This boat was mine from new in 1973. I bought the hull and had the decks professionally added by Mal's favourite boat builder Bob Beckett who worked from home in Hays. The design is prettty much a wide/smooth China Doll but it never went well. I think the problem was lack or hull stiffness coupled with inept helm! We sailed on the river at the time and the 6ft plus beam didn't help. She had a Holt mast which I picked up in a sale at Holts and brabd new suit of Macnamara's. We did the champs at Pevensey bay and Weymouth the year after then I sold her and bought a 7-plank China Doll. The hull is plain GRP, no foam so she should have lasted, not seen her since the day she was sold in about 1975.



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