Ramona said..MorningBird said..
Says a lot about the attractiveness of the S&S34 that other designs try to make out they are one. It might be the same broker who has another boat in Batemans Bay he is calling an S&S34, but it isn't.
Or maybe he is just a bull...t artist broker!
I was going to call it a Roberts 34 but would have preferred a shot of her out of the water. No one would build a single chine SS34 !. Got into a discussion with the owner of that other boat when he was here for a few days. I called it a Townsend 34 and he got quite agitated!
It is pretty common knowledge what happened to the S&S34, (S&S Design 1969) moulds. Anything not built in those moulds is not the well known S&S34 yacht. I don't know why owners and brokers keep trying this on.
Winfield built the moulds in 1967 or thereabouts and built their boats.
The Swarbrick brothers went to the UK and bought them, late 1968 or 69.
Swarbrick built their boats. They went broke in 1984 (Morning Bird the last of their boats) and Maybrook Marine on the Central Coast got the moulds. They built about 6-10 boats.
The moulds sat in a paddock until Mike Finn bought them and they went back to Perth for the latest batch to be built by Cottesloe Yachts.
The moulds are still there.
Morning Bird is hull no 118 (or 119 depending on the list being looked at). Here is a list of the Swarbrick and Cottesloe built boats.
www.ss34.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Register-of-Yachts-built-website.pdfMany Swarbrick boats were owner fitted out and look like it. I have been on maybe 15 and all the owner fitted out ones were horrible. The Maybrook boats have lovely interiors.
Morning Bird has a quite nice fitout (not of the very high standard Maybrook did their boats too) and I notice on the records in this link she may have been fitted out by Maybrook. I doubt that, I believe from talking with Neil de Cean, the first owner who ordered her from Swarbricks and who I bought her from, she was fitted out by Swarbrick and all that happened when she arrived here was that the engine and rig was installed at RSYS.
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