{"id":47,"date":"2005-05-20T06:36:32","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T04:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-07-25T16:52:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T12:52:52","slug":"quo-vadis-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yachtquovadis.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Quo Vadis Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And now on an historical note…<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Quo Vadis (Latin: ‘wither goest thou’ ) is a 13.5 metre cruising yacht, after the Lidgard 44 (Reward) design. The original Reward was designed and built by John Lidgard in 1985, he and his wife Heather sailed it extensively including doing the 2-handed Melbourne to Osaka Race in 1987 and winning it by some days.<\/p>\n

There have been a number of yachts built off the plans since then, they are scattered around the globe.<\/p>\n

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Basic Specifications: Length overall 13.5 m
\nLength waterline 11.125m
\nBeam 4m
\nDraught 1.8m
\nDisplacement 13 t
\nBallast 4.5t<\/p>\n

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Quo Vadis’ building was started around Easter 1994 at Dickson Marine in Nelson, to those original plans but with our modifications to the interior.<\/p>\n

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The hull is of new cut Kauri strip-plank, a longitudunal layer of 40x25mm with a second, diagonal layer of 8mm, edge-nailed, glued and copper-riveted to Kauri laminated frames and floors<\/p>\n

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The exterior was then covered with a single layer of fibreglass.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The interior fit-out proceded, the joinery work using\u00a0teak<\/p>\n

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While the cabin-top of Kauri ply was assembled and finished off the boat<\/p>\n

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before all coming together<\/p>\n

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A concrete mould was made from a wooden ‘plug’ in which to cast the 4.5 tonnes of lead for the elongated fin keel\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>which was attached to a solid, laminated kauri stub to be later bolted to the hull.<\/p>\n

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The rudder is of solid Kauri on either side of this stainless ‘skeleton’ and has a full-length solid Kauri skeg.<\/p>\n

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After what seemed an eternity, but in fact was 14,500 man hours of work, the fit out was completed, the interior painted and finished, the rig and deckgear assembled<\/p>\n

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she was ready for launching…<\/p>\n

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and at 4pm. on July 22, 1995, -with all due celebration before and after…<\/p>\n

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Over the near 10 years since, the vessel is little changed, although she is now considerably fuller, and the waterline has had to be raised; but just once so far…
\nShe has proved to be a very comfortable, relatively fast cruising yacht and there’s little we would change were we building her again. We like to think of her as a strong, seaworthy boat and have tried to keep her fairly basic, uncluttered with ‘systems’ prone to failure.<\/p>\n

We have a: Sloop rig with 2 furling staysails, a boom furling mainsail and a spinnaker
\nYanmar 50hp engine
\nDiesel 420litres capacity
\nWater 660 litres capacity
\n12v Glacier\u00a0Bay\u00a0frig and freezer unit
\nPUR watermaker 25 litres per hour
\nBrookes and Gatehouse instruments and autopilot
\nAll the neccessary electronics, radar, GPS, weatherfax, VHF, SSB radios, email by\u00a0iridium phone,\u00a0inmarsatC and AIS for safe navigation and communication
\nBack-up power generation from solar panels and wind generator
\nLiferaft
\nParachute sea-anchor
\nand: for ocean passaging, a bolt-on, Windpilot windvane\/auxilliary rudder steering system.<\/p>\n

-although to many ‘old salts’ I’m sure this inventory would seem rather more than ‘basic’….<\/p>\n

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