AUS-029

Essentials

Table of details and specifications of AUS-029
	Designers	Alfred Edward "Bill" Luders Jr. (USA), Ernest B. Fay
	Builder	Ian Perdrieau (AUS)
	Material
	1st certificate issued	1973
	Original boat name	Antares
	Original country	AUS
	Original sail number	029
	Current location	Sydney Harbour (AUS)

Question about potential sister-ships - 22.02.2008 by Site Administrator: Is it a sister-ship of FRA-045a / SUI-123 and of SUI-124 ?
Be be only from the same design family as these two ones are of 1979...
Note received from Gordon Hinds, 21.02.2008 - 22.02.2008 by Site Administrator: I notice the mighty Antares is missing from your list...
Built tin 1973 with the distinctive canoe bow it was an Ernie Fay/Luders(?) collaboration.
I owned her from 1989 to 1994 with Michael MacMahon and sailed in the 1991(?) worlds off Palm Beach achieving a credible 11th place.
We then won the Australian Championships against much new designs in 1993.
She is extremely fast on a windward/leeward course, but was extremely slow on the reaching triangle courses that have now long gone.
She is still sailing in Sydney Harbour and when I ever get rich and famous again I will buy her and campaign her in Europe. There is a sister ship in Norway I believe
She is a rocket ship!
Regards
Gordon Hinds
9 Stephen Street, Paddington, gordon[at]thpads.com