| TIMELINE |
EVENT |
TIME |
DETAILS |
| 1959 |
Commission of Stormvogel Design |
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Cornelius Bruynzeel 60 years old |
| 1960 |
Build Stellenbosch, South Africa |
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Construction period, Stellenbosch SA. 10 months |
| 1961 |
25th April 1961, Launch Cape Town S.A. |
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| 1961 |
3rd May 1961, Departure from Cape Town for Dartmouth then Cowes, U.K. |
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Gordon Webb, First skipper |
| 1961 |
Cowes Race Week, Admirals Cup incl. RORC Fastnet |
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6th Class 1 Fastnet Race. 13th Class 1 Channel Race. |
| 1961 |
RORC Fastnet Race – Francis Chichester navigator |
3d. 20h. 58m. 13s. |
Erivale Cup -First yacht home, Elizabeth McCaw Trophy-first around Fastnet Rock |
| 1961 |
Plymouth to St Nazire France, Mediterannean |
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Via Suez Canal |
| 1962 |
Mozambique – Durban – Cape Town |
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John Goodwin joins boat as skipper |
| 1962 |
Cape Town – Buenos Aires |
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| 1962 |
Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro Race. |
7d. 23h. 37m. 0s. |
Line Honours |
| 1962 |
Caribbean-Bahamas-Chesapeake-Newport-RI |
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Cruise / delivery |
| 1962 |
Rode Island, Newport to Bermuda Race |
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2nd overall to Northern Light |
| 1962 |
June, Bermuda-Azores-Plymouth |
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| 1962 |
RORC racing season, Channel Race |
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| 1962 |
Regatta Cowes – San Sebastian Agostso |
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| 1962 |
Race to Spain |
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| 1962 |
San Sebastian to Belle Isle, France, Sept. |
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| 1962 |
Southampton, Winter |
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Laid up |
| 1963 |
Shaw Race |
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John Miles joins boat as skipper, Line Honours |
| 1963 |
June, Hook of Holland Race |
23h. 19m. |
Harwick – Hook 220nm, |
| 1963 |
June, Round Gotland Race |
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Klass I RORC |
| 1963 |
July, Cruising Norwegian Fjords, Hanko and Skaw Race |
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| 1963 |
August. Channel Race, Cowes Week, Fastnet Race. Race to La Rochelle |
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Finish second Fastnet Race |
| 1963 |
Sept/Oct Cruise to Cape Town via Lisbon, Madeira, Canary & Cape Verde Is. |
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| 1964 |
Cape Town, St Helena, Recife, West Indies, Bahamas, Miami, New York |
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| 1964 |
Bermuda Race – St Thomas, South America, Rio, Panama, mexicao, L.A. |
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Line Honours |
| 1965 |
Transpac Race, Race against Ticonderoga Elapsed time |
9d. 13h. 56m. 50s |
Second across the line, boom replaced |
| 1965 |
Auckland New Zealand. Refit Auckland by Max Carter after 140,000nm |
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Peter Lindeberg joins boat as skipper, refit Auckland |
| 1965 |
Sydney Hobart |
3d. 20h. 30m. 9s. |
Line Honours, |
| 1966 |
China Sea Race |
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Line Honours |
| TIMELINE |
EVENT |
TIME |
DETAILS |
| 1966 |
Toba Pearl Race, Japan |
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First Home Nippon Ocean Racing |
| 1966 |
Big Boat Series, San Francisco |
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| 1966 |
Los Angeles to Mazatlan, Mexico |
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Los Angles – Mazaltan, Nov. 1966 |
| 1967 |
California Cup, USA |
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Addition of Bow Sprit for Trans Pac |
| 1967 |
Transpacific Yacht Race CA to Hawaii, beating Kialoa II Elapsed time |
11d. 14h. 10m. 56s. |
Line Honours. |
| 1967 |
Big Boat Series, San Francisco |
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| 1967 |
Chile, Ancud, December 13th |
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| 1967 |
Cape Horn, December 31st to Jan 2nd |
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SV sailed 159,000 nautical miles since launch |
| 1968 |
Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro Race. |
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Ondine wins, windward race |
| 1968 |
Newport to Bermuda |
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| 1968 |
Bermuda to Travemunde Germany, Baltic Sea, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Med |
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| 1968 |
Malta |
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Malcolm Horsley joins boat as skipper |
| 1968 |
Middle Sea Race |
6d.2h. 9m 45s. |
Line Honours |
| 1969 |
Middle Sea Race |
5d. 9h. 16m. 22s. |
Line Honours |
| 1971 |
Chartering owner cruise |
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| 1972 |
Chartering owner cruise |
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| 1973 |
Chartering owner cruise |
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Collision with whale |
| 1974 |
Chartering owner cruise, Greek Islands |
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Werner Mattmann, owner |
| 1975 |
Malta, Spain, Canaries, West Indies, Galapagos, Marquesas |
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| 1976 |
Tahiti, French Polynesia, Rarotonga, Fiji, Solomons, New Hebrides |
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| 1978 |
Med to Caribbean |
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Adriano Goldschied, owner |
| 1980 |
Sail Amsterdam 6 -12 August |
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| 1981 |
Middle Sea Race – 1981 Whitbread entry but not raced |
7d. 21h. 10m. 46s. |
Entry for 1981-82 Whitbread but not a starter |
| 1982 |
Purchase Malta ETR |
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Refit Antigua, new deck ply |
| 1983 |
Atlantic Crossing – Caribbean |
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| 1984 |
Caribbean |
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| 1984 |
Antigua Race Week |
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| 1985 |
Caribbean |
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| 1986 |
Pacific Crossing |
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| 1986 |
Nov- Dec, Sydney |
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Sydney Australia |
| TIMELINE |
EVENT |
TIME |
DETAILS |
| 1987 |
March Sydney to Hamilton Island |
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Chartered for movie “Dead Calm” Kennedy Miller production, Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane |
| 1987 |
June, Hamilton Is. Aust., Indo, S’pore, Phuket |
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Delivery to South East Asia |
| 1988 |
Phuket, Spore, Bali, S’pore, Phuket |
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Day charter from Bali |
| 1989 |
Phuket |
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| 1990 |
July, Singapore |
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Refit of rig, new masthead |
| 1990 |
July – October Singapore – Anambas |
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Exploring remote islands Indonesia |
| 1990 |
October, Singapore, Phuket |
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| 1991 |
Phuket |
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| 1991 |
March, Phuket – Singapore – Anambas |
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Last charter before structural repair, refit Singapore |
| 1991 |
July, Singapore – Structural Refit |
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Structural refit, all new systems, bowsprit removed – Graeme Henry management |
| 1992 |
July, Laid up in Singapore |
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Keppel Shipyard, Singapore |
| 1993 |
Sept – Dec, Rebuild |
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Completion of refit, Peter Bird Survey Dec 1993, |
| 1993 |
Dec, S’pore – Phuket |
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| 1994 |
Phuket, S’pore, H.K. |
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| 1994 |
April, China Sea Race |
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| 1994 |
June, Manila – Sulawesi |
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| 1994 |
Sulawesi – S’pore |
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| 1995 |
King’s Cup Regatta, Phuket, Thailand |
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| 1995 |
Phang Nga Regatta, Phuket, Thailand |
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| 1996 |
Phuket – Koh Samui – S’pore |
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| 1996 |
Sept – Oct, Refit S’pore |
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Peter Bird Survey report Oct 1996 |
| 1996 |
King’s Cup Regatta, Phuket, Thailand |
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| 1997 |
August, S’pore – Anambas |
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| 1997 |
Sept, Singapore, Refit |
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Peter Bird Survey Oct 1997 |
| 1997 |
Raja Muda, Langkawi, Malaysia |
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| 1997 |
King’s Cup Regatta, Phuket, Thailand |
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| 1998 |
King’s Cup Regatta, Phuket, Thailand |
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| 1999 |
June, Phuket, Refit |
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Peter Bird Survey July 1999, planking replacement aft, fwd of rudder |
| 1999 |
King’s Cup Regatta, Phuket, Thailand |
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| 2000 |
March – April, Collision repair – Phuket |
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Peter Bird Survey April 2000, planking around stem |
| TIMELINE |
EVENT |
TIME |
DETAILS |
| 2001 |
Sept – Nov 2001 Refit Phuket |
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Peter Bird Survey Nov 2001, planking replacement stbd & port fwd |
| 2003-4 |
Andaman Sea Rally |
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| 2005 |
March – Dec, Major Refit Phuket |
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Refit in Phuket Graeme Lawrence management |
| 2005 |
King’s Cup Regatta, Phuket, Thailand |
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| 2006 |
Phuket, Jakarta, Indian Ocean, Seychelles |
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Peter Bird Survey July 2006 |
| 2007 |
Seychelles, Red Sea, Sicily |
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| 2007 |
March, Egypt to Trapani Sicily |
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Refit for Classic regattas |
| 2007 |
Panerai Classic Yacht Circuit, June – Oct |
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2nd overall in class |
| 2008 |
Panerai Classic Yacht Circuit, June – Oct |
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Winner of class for 2008 season |
| 2008 |
Middle Sea Race |
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| 2008 |
Palma, Canaries |
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| 2008 |
Atlantic Crossing – ARC – Canaries to St Lucia |
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Winner of ARC race division |
| 2009 |
Antigua Race Week |
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| 2009 |
Atlantic Crossing – Azores – Palma |
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| Jul-09 |
Tunisia |
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| 2010 |
Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Turkey |
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| 2011 |
Turkey, Malta, Palma, Tangier, Cape Verde, Antigua |
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| 2012 |
Antigua Classic Week |
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| 2013 |
Antigua Classic Week |
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| 2014 |
Antigua Classic Week, Venezuela, St Martin, Azores |
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| 2014 |
Finike Turkey – October for bulkhead & bow repairs |
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| 2015 |
Structure repairs Finike |
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Hull Structure rebuild by Ian Hulleman |
| 2016 |
GH to Finike to review work program |
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GW Marine Management Ltd NZ – Project coordination |
| 2017 |
June – Move to Metur Yacht, Bodrum Turkey |
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Metur Yacht Bodrum, Ian Hulleman onsite management |
| 2020 |
June – Launch Bodrum – standby during Covid |
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Robert Elliot Survey Ellyachts 12/2020 |
| 2021 |
May – Bodrum, Malta, Valencia |
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Commissioning in Valencia. Ocean race fit-out |
| 2021 |
June – Valencia, Cascais, Cowes |
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SV attains 22 knot boatspeed running after Straits of Gibraltar |
| 2021 |
July – British Classic Week – SV 60th anniversary – Classic Regatta |
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| 2021 |
August – RORC Rolex Fastnet – SV 60th celebration – Ocean Racing |
3d. 19hrs. 02m. 54s |
6th Class 1 IRC, 7th Overall IRC out of 264 finishers |
| 2021 |
September – Voile de Saint Tropez – SV 60th celebration – Classic Regatta |
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| 2022 |
Valencia, Balearic cruise |
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| 2023 |
Valencia, Palma Vela regatta, Cowes, RORC Fastnet, Voiles de Saint Tropez |
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