Ultra 30?

Interestingly we were talking about the Ultra in Pwllheli last summer.  I know the owner pretty well (David McLean) and have sailed with him on a few of his boats.

I'm pretty sure he'd be happy to sell his Ultra but the mast is broken as a guy at PSC drove a tractor off without noticing that a halyard was tied to the tractor (forgotton why).  Losing the rig is not big loss.  As has been mentioned before the rig was waay too heavy and was the major cause of capsizes, especially in the early days.  I should say that my brother had DBS built when new and he and I fitted it out in Cowes marina - quite an interesting job as there were no other boats in existence at that time that we could compare notes with.

It was a great time.  We had sposorship from DBS (Financial Management), Timberland and Helly Hansen (actually sellin gmy HH drysuit on eBay right now!!).  A highlight of sorts was doing the RTI race but capsizing and breaking the mast half way round.  At the time we were 30 mins ahead of the existing monohull record (slow by todays records) - pretty frustrating.  The following weekend we had a new mast and sailed from Cowes to Brighton to do the first U30 event!

Boats (pre-trapezes) where great fun to sail and teamwork was key to getting the things round the course upright.

DM's boat has now been moved away from the sailing club and I watched the sails being burnt last August!

We thought it would be fun to get a carbon rig and do some local events - expensive though!

It was goingto be the Spring series...and still is. Warsash Sc have been brave enough to write in the SBR rule 9.0 so we can trap, cant keel, use moveable balast. Think we will stay with the traps for now, a canting keel on an Ultra is probably a step too far.....for now!  It's going to be a blast carving up the 'lead mines' on the start line. Oh the only restriction is that we have to wear Dry-suits. Who wouldn't  in March in the UK!!

Originally posted by 29er397 hmmm, drysuit with a trap harness has never felt too comfy for me, but im sure i would be able to put up with it, if it meant i could sail an ulta 30!

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Originally posted by Jockey It was goingto be the Spring series...and still is. Warsash Sc have been brave enough to write in the SBR rule 9.0 so we can trap, cant keel, use moveable balast. Think we will stay with the traps for now, a canting keel on an Ultra is probably a step too far.....for now!  It's going to be a blast carving up the 'lead mines' on the start line. Oh the only restriction is that we have to wear Dry-suits. Who wouldn't  in March in the UK!!

in that case...

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Originally posted by Chris Turner Well if you don't get them sailing again, the rigs are pretty good for a 25' sports boat. The hulls make quite good day boats with outboard.

Not sure about that.  The Ultimate 30 rigs were lighter than the Ultra 30 lumps.  Put an Unltra 30 rig on a 25' sportsboat and it witll either sink immediately or capsize and then sink

I don't remember the hull being very stable, but that was probably due to the rig.