N2483 Moody Blue

National 12 Webmaster · 28 Feb 2007, 02:52

The life of N2483 Moody Blue. Design: Mark 14, designed by: Ian Proctor in 1966
Original boat name: Tackspayer.

David White · 30 May 2007, 07:45

Originally "Tackspayer", owned by Ken Goddard at Trent Valley

Ken Goddard · 20 Nov 2007, 09:02

Ken Goddard writes:
I bought this boat new in 1970 from Chippendale (rather than my local boat builder Wyche & Coppock) and named her as "Tackspayer", a pun like many of my other boats. She was built to Ian Proctor's Mk.14 design and my choice of this design was a mistake! The China Doll had been launched a year or two beforhand and I failed to recognise that it was a better design. The Mk.14 seemed to have no particular virtues and I remember the boat more for several occasions when I capsized to windward, although this may be more a result of inadequate sailing skills than a deficiency in design.
One of these occasions was well out to sea when I was sailing in a Royal Dart Y.C. Regatta. A bit scary!

I sold her in around 1973 to a girl at Whitefriars S.C. (Gloucs. or Wiltshire?). She renamed the boat Moody Blue and painted on top of the varnished hull accordingly. After a couple of years I heard no more of the boat.

Ken Goddard
N.2300