Sunday 29 May 2016

The Successor

There she is on our mooring. JPK 9.60 Keneil Ker.

Wednesday 20 April 2016

FarrOut Sold

FarrOut has made her trip back to Scotland and is settled with her new owners Jonathan and Gavin Dickie. We wish them and her a successful future. Really going to miss her.

Meanwhile the FarrOut team are looking for a new boat. But where can you go after a boat as perfect as her?

On her new mooring
I guess this is the end of this blog. As a memory, here is her description from the Apollo Duck advert:


Great example of this proven racer/cruiser. IRC optimised to be even more competitive.
The Laser 28 was designed by Bruce Farr to provide the performance of a much larger boat. The functional interior sleeps 5/6 with heads, galley and nav station.

She is a delight to sail with her hull shape allowing planing in the right conditions. Her practical deck layout and addition of assymetric spinnaker option makes her ideal for short handed passage making as well as round the cans fully crewed racing.


Is there a more practical and competitive boat in the 28’-30’ range available for this budget?


2015 Weymouth & Portland (YCW) Spring IRC Class 4 - 1st

2015 Weymouth SC Double Handed series - 1st
2015 Weymouth & Portland (YCW) Autumn IRC Class 4 - 1st
2015 Weymouth & Portland (YCW) Winter IRC Class 4 - 1st

That's about right for an epitaph from this owner at least.

Monday 14 March 2016

Small IRC winner

Cruising through the Sailing Anarchy forums I came across this discussion:

Small IRC Winner

It takes 8 posts before the Laser 28 gets mentioned? So glad that we knew the Laser 28's potential when we were looking for a new boat. FarrOut is a fabulous boat and looking forward to sailing her as soon as I can get home (currently working in Kazakhstan).

The decision to replace our GK24 with a Laser 28 came to me one sunny morning  / afternoon / whatever it was? I was too tired to know. We were tied up against the waiting pontoon in St Peter Port Guernsey after a gruelling night race from Cowes. We were racing my friend's Figaro 1 "Rattler" and had put a lot of effort in and were hoping for as decent a placing as her rating would allow.

We'd probably been tied up around 10 minutes when along came the Laser 28 "Lazy Bear", now known as "Moondog". It was pretty impressive that this 28' boat had made the passage in this sort of time. I was in love........

The day that the money cleared in the bank from the sail of "Chuckles Too" our GK24, Stu, Steve and I were on a flight to Scotland to view FarrOut.