Here is a unique chance to own a piece of yachting history.
Tiare is the only example in the UK of the legendary Philip Rhodes Bounty II yawl. Often confused with Nicholson yawls, she is bigger, faster and prettier.
She is also faster and more capable than a Sparkman and Stephens Concordia, or a 40' McGruer, Sangermani, Holman, Hinckley or Cheoy Lee.
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Since buying her in Hawai'i 18 years ago, we have spent over £150,000 on her, replacing her standing rigging, main and genoa, all of her electrics, navigation (Raymarine) and engine (Yanmar 3YM30, c300 hours, serviced annually).
She also has a Raymarine autohelm, forward facing sonar and a heap more. We completely rebuilt the main cabin and galley, installing substantial storage in iroko trimmed white. We also replaced the toerail with iroko.
We have repainted her twice, the last time being last year, with a bill of over £30,000 for significant work to the topsides and wrapping the hull.
She comes with an insane sail locker - most of which we have never used, but on board she has a spinnaker, ghoster and mizzen staysail as well as the three main sails.
Tiare, while now used for family cruising, is longing to be raced. On a broad reach she tops 10 knots, and can overhaul more modern boats of much longer LWL in anything other than light winds. We have sailed her in the Pacific as well as the South Coast, and her hull strength and manageable rig means she can take far more weather than a modern yacht.
If you are looking for a cost effective way to win classic regattas, or to cruise with your family, Tiare is your boat.
Tiare's History
Named after Hawai'is 'national' flower, #37 Tiare was built as a yawl for the 1958 TransPacific race, from San Francisco to Hawai'i, where she came 4th in her class.
A yacht of some fame in Hawai'i, she was then cruised and raced all over the Pacific for the next 45 years, holding the round Oah'u record until 2002.
Wherever we went in the Hawai'ian islands, people came to say hi to Tiare, and meet the lucky new owners.
We then brought her back to the UK, and then started a 18 year rolling restoration and conversion from a racer into a family fast cruiser. She is currently the oldest GRP yacht outside of the US.
History of the Rhodes Bounty II class.
The 41-ft Rhodes Bounty II was one of the original fibreglass racer/cruisers that launched a boatbuilding revolution. Sold as a sloop or a yawl, she was the cutting edge in offshore racing design that helped sell GRP as the yacht material of the future.
The Bounty II project was undertaken by Fred Coleman and Vince Lazzara (of Lazzara Yachts) at Aero Marine in Sausalito, California using a Rhodes’ design with Bill Gardener's’ engineering.
Philip Rhodes was the designer of America's Cup winners, and member of the American Yacht Designers Hall of Fame, alongside Olin Stephens.
They were looking to create a cutting edge racing yawl that was fast enough and sturdy enough to win deep ocean offshore races. To do this, they used an extended version of the Rhodes 29 design (of which Altair won many offshore races) in the wonder material of the age - GRP.
Built from 1956-1960. In 1961, Pearson bought the rights and sold it under the name of Rhodes 41. Over 100 of the combined classes were built.
With all the top talent brought to bear, it’s no surprise that the vessel became an instant success. Its heavy build and the building team's approach with the new material paid off in the long run. Their “thick as a plank” hull skin may have been overkill, but the results speak for themselves, and many of these classic sailboats still easily pass survey today.
Perhaps the best measure of success of this effort lies in the fact that of the approximately 100 Bounty II's built, nearly all are still in the water and have a cult following that makes them one of the most sought-after classics in the US.
One is still commercially chartered in the US Virgin Islands and "Flying Scud" was for many years the home of the blue water cruising magazine Latitude 38.
The construction of this Bounty II is bulletproof. The hull is made up of 9 layers of solid hand-laid woven fiberglass cloth and roving, and 18 layers in the lower hull were used to develop a thickness of three-quarters of an inch at the keel.
The 2.8 tonne cast iron keel is encased in the hull.
Unusually for GRP boats, Bounty II's hold their price as classics. Prices range from c£20k for a rough one up to nearly £200k for a fully restored one.
Tiare is not perfect, and like any classic requires looking after.
Apart from cosmetic updates belowdecks, there are some repairs to the aluminium masts, where brass and steel winches have reacted with the aluminium. She has been priced accordingly.
ADDITIONAL INFO - Tiare also comes with a custom built 8' GRP dinghy also designed by Rhodes - possibly Rhodes' smallest design. We called her Humuhumunukunuku?pua?a (after the Hawai'ian 'Fish with the face of a dog'), as such a small boat seemed to deserve a big name.
She perfectly fits on those cabin top mountings and can hold two and stacks of luggage comfortably. "Humuhumu" is under restoration at the moment, and will be included in the sale. So, by buying Tiare and HumuHumu, you will own one more Rhodes than Griff Rhys Jones!
Vessel type: | Classic yawl |
Designer: | Philip Rhodes |
Builder: | Aeromarine of Sacrimento |
Make: | Rhodes |
Model: | 41 |
Fit Out: | Family cruising |
Constructed: | 1957 |
Sail number: | 37 |
HIN: | N/A |
Registration: | SSR118303 |
Registry: | Small Ships Register |
Berths: | 5 |
No. of engines: | 1 |
Engine model: | Yanamr 3YM30 |
Engine power: | 30 |
Engine hours: | 300 |
Fuel type: | Diesel |
Drive type: | Shaft drive |
Length over all: | 40' 10" |
Length at waterline: | 28' |
Beam: | 10' 6" |
Maximum draft: | 5' 9" |
Bridge clearance: | 50' |
Hull type: | heavy displacement |
Hull colour: | Navy blue |
Keel type: | Full Keel |
Displacement: | 8 metric tons |
Fuel capacity: | 151 Litres |
Water capacity: | 227 Litres |
She has two berths in the fore cabin, a double and single in the main cabin.
She has a toilet and sink in the heads, a hanging locker, a chart table, a galley with a three burner stove and oven on gimbals and a top opening fridge.
She needs the cabin floor repainting, or replacing with a laid floor or carpet.
She could do with some time spent on painting the interior.
One of the original fibreglass yachts, she has massively over engineered scantlings - 2-10cm thick - of solid glass matt and epoxy.
Three burner stove with oven, on gimballs.
Top opening fridge.
Running fresh water and manual salt water pump into twin sinks.
Electric lighting, and recently upgraded electrical system.
Modern 20kg CQR anchor and manual windlass.
Substantial locker, drawer and under-bunk storage.
All fittings are either silicon bronze (original) or stainless steel
She also comes with a huge amount of fittings that were removed and never replaced after her first repaint.
Raymarine 7" chart plotter with UK charts, mounted on a moveable base.
Forward facing sonar
Raymarine autohelm
VHS with EIS and GPS
She has a Yanmar 3YM30 that was fitted in 2008, and has about 300 hours on it. It is serviced annually. Super reliable, and giving us about 24 hours of motoring. at 5-6 knots.
Yawl rig with non-anodised aluminium mast and aluminium/wood main boom, and wood mizzen boom.
Main mast with 4 winches - one bronze (super reliable) and three more modern ones. Tracks and poles for spinnaker and halyard for staysail.
Main is slab reefing with four reefing points (the last essentially making the main a storm sail) and recent lazyjacks.
Genoa is full height with Harken roller reefing.
Mizzen mast has two winches - both bronze. Mizzen does not have reefing lines but halyards for a mizzen staysail and running backstays.
Four two speed winches in cockpit - one with aftermarket self tailing.
Sail locker includes over 20 sails - mostly elderly, but main and genoa were replaced in 2006. A recent spinnaker, mizzen staysail and drifter are the most usable.
EPIRB and liferaft.
Note: Indicated location is approximate general area only.