 | | | Please support our sponsors and let them know you heard about their products on Cruisers Forums. | | | | | | 20-12-2019, 06:09 | | | | in , . It has lovely lines but claims to be an Alden design from 1950 51 or 52 in various documents. I can see no reference to such a design in the Alden design schedules of the Hart Collection so doubt it an Alden.
It claims to be a but is currently a , but because the backstay is about 2.5 ft in from the stern it was almost certainly built as a yawl. Yawls were quite common at the time. Any ideas?
If not an Alden, who is the of a pretty big yacht in 1950? Nirvana has lived for a while in NZ, now back in Oz. It has had a major but the is not original.
It was supposedly built on the of NSW , possibly Newcastle, by either S F Heaton or Heaton Bros, from ironbark framing but not sure of the planking. I can find no reference to such builders and am surprised the owner knows nothing. Any ideas? Steve | | | | | 20-12-2019, 07:31 | | Boat: Fiberglas shattering 44' steel trawler
| recognizes a designer's .
No number or other ID on the itself?
There was an Alden "Nirvana, 65', built in 1950. If you go to Alden's biography in Wikipedia, then down to the bottom, There's a link to an Excel file of all his yachts built (!). Here is the content of the appropriate line Row 861:
861 65'0 45'1 14'3 8'4 69300 Yawl After Nirvana Harry G. Haskell, Wilmington, DE Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Southwest Harbor, ME 1 1950 Yes Yes Yes | | | | | 20-12-2019, 15:27 | | | | but Nirvana 1 was supposedly built in Australia. More than one yacht can be built from the same design but the design number has a letter added. This yacht was stripped to a bare shell so little would be left, and the owner does not know of anything that would ID the vessel.
Nirvana is a relatively common name I think and I assume the name would have changed over 70 years.
I have attached (I think), but the house I am confident is not original. | | | | | 21-12-2019, 06:36 | | Boat: Fiberglas shattering 44' steel trawler
| built in would use Australian ironbark, nor in NSW of North American oak or spruce. | | | | | Thread Tools | | | | Rate This Thread | :
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