s/v Zen ii , 1972 Iroquois,
her home port is Alameda , CA.
The owners will move aboard in Sept 2011, as they make ready to sail to Osaka, Japan in Sept of 2012.
Polynesian Voyage
Many thanks to our Hawaiian member Samuel Chapin for providing information about the Pacific Voyagers Polynesian voyage from New Zealand to California (summer 2011).
Note. Wikipedia has a detailed entry about Polynesian Navigation.
Polynesian voyaging canoes are relevant to modern multihulls because the canoes are the antecedents of today’s catamarans… M.Corrick.
These pictures are of a visit to Kauai by seven Polynesian
Voyaging Canoes. They are now enroute to San Fransisco… S.Chapin.
Cheetah
A beautiful picture and short note from an IOA Member in Ireland.
Cheetah 304 is an Iroquois Mk2a, with fixed keels, very much a cruiser rather than a racer. We bought her from Gearoid Flanagan in 2007. We are based in Mountshannon on Lough Derg, on the river Shannon, in Ireland.
Dermot Mangan
Vestfjordseilasen Regatta
(POST UPDATED 07/07/11)
This Post is on behalf of an IOA member Jon Jakobsen from Norway. Here he tells us about his boat Vouvray and the Vestfjordseilasen Regatta. Jon has also kindly submitted some great photo’s and archive material which we will add to the site…
I have just participated in a regatta 36 nm north of Bodø, its called Vestfjordseilasen, going from the mainland in Nordland, Northern part of Norway, Nordskot up to Kabelvaag in Lofoten, 90 sailoboats, amongst them in the multihull category, Dolce Vita, a Fountaine Pajot 36, “MAHE”, and mine little Iroquois MK I, Dolce Vita sailing with gennaker and mainsail, and me sailing with an old spinnaker and mainsail over the fjord..
The result in mine class with only 4 hulls!
About my Cat.
June 10th, 1999, a friend of mine and I got on the plane at Bodoe airport, destination Heathrow, then some miles west by a motorway, westbond for Penarth, Cardiff.
I bought Vouvray after an inspection of the cat all over, also submerget inspecting 15 cm under the hulls with scuba gear a half hour, after this day, the 11 of June 1999, we sailed in 3 weeks up Northt to Bodø (as said former, in the Northern part of Norway), underway in Scotland, through 2 channels, the little Crinan Canal, and through Scotland on the big Caledonian channel from Fort William to Inverness.
From there 83 little hours over the little fjord from Scotland to Norway, with windy conditions shifting from near gale to windstill, blank sea, as we call it, the Northsea to Florø, and 1 week sailing up to Bodø. The route from Cardiff…Oxwich Bay, Milford Haven, Arklow, Howth Marina in Dublin, Adrishaig in Scotland through the Crinan Canal one day, Oban, Fort William, several days on the Caledonian Canal to Inversness, then the Fjord to Noway…North sea, Florø, Hitra, Brønnøysund, Sandnessjøen, Bolga, Håkjerringvika near Bodø, and then the destination, my hometown Bodø.
The highest GPS-speed I ever have reached with Vouvray, was in much more that gentle breeze from west (near gale), when we set course for Fort William from Oban, with 2 other monohulls trying to follow us, we reached 20 GPS-knots inbound to Fort William, and with nearly silence from behind, and after that stunt, those members from the 2 other sailboats following us up the Caledonian channel called us, those crasy Norwegians, ps. we gained 1,5 hours on them on that short trip from Oban to Fort William…
Vouvray has sailed about 1200 nm every year from the summer of 1999. Of course a lot of going with engine, at least nearly half of the time, its not so windy in the Northern part of Norway as You might think.
The old Yamaha Bigfoot 9.9 that came with Vouvray is gone, drinking too much oil, and I have replaced it with a Honda 20 HP, 4 blade propeller, giving 7 knots maximum engine speed, at 6 knots its drinking about 3-4 litres of fuel in the hour, at 7 knots it is drinking 6-7 litres of fuel.
I do use my Cat all the Year around, we are blessed with the Golf stream, giving us non-icing conditions the hole year, of course we have much snow in the winter, but with gps and AIS it is no problem sailing in those conditions.
This photo is taken by me at my family country cottage, 14 nm south of Bodø, the place is called Haakjerringvika, ( Haakjerring translated to english: Greenland shark, and vika means bay)
Jon has sent us some classic Iroquois material which is contained in our Archives section.
IOA and HTCCA Merger
We warmly welcome all members of the Iroquois Owners’Association to the Heavenly Twins & Cruising Catamaran Association now that we have merged. We would like you to feel welcome and we hope you will participate in as many things as you can.
As many of you will know the IOA committee dwindled and then they succumbed to illness, and without new blood in the committee roles the organisation began to flounder. I’d like to say a big thank you to those who tried so valiantly to save the Association and who gave their hearts and souls to the cause.
It is sad that the Association could not continue in its original form. I have much sympathy for you and understand any reluctance or any apprehension about how the future will unfold, however I hope you will soon feel at home and welcome. At first joining together doesn’t necessarily sound appealing, but I believe that we can become a strong voice in the boating industry (particularly in cruising catamarans) by pulling together in unity. The more unanimous voices the better. We have very similar interests already, by owning and sailing small cruising catamarans, so we know we have a lot in common from the start.
On a practical front we’ll do all we can to preserve your archive data both in hard copy and the website for future generations.
Currently we publish three newsletters a year. We run cruises in company and social meetings on land, the biggest of which is our AGM hotel weekend in January. An AGM at first sounds dull, but it has become a social weekend in an hotel with about an hour devoted to the meeting. Much eating, drinking and boat talk ensues and a good time is had by all, amongst like minded sailors (and a few guests). The people who attend are a lovely group and so welcoming to veteran and new members alike. We hope to meet as many of you as we can at landbased or on the water meetings. We run a website and have a Facebook page too. In the fullness of time I expect that we will merge the websites and maybe the Facebook groups too. Please use all that we offer and feel welcome and included.
Some of the newsletters already contain articles of Iroquois cruises. You would be most welcome to write for the magazines, articles of all kinds, technical, about cruises undertaken, or about modifications made to the boats. Our editor is always on the lookout for new material and prizes for the best submissions are awarded at our AGM weekend. You might be lucky…..
Keep in touch and let us know what you are getting up to. You can ask on the website who is out and about on the water in your area. Impromptu on board meetings are fairly common and we would welcome more of those.
If there is anything you would like to ask, or anything you need, please ask. I can be contacted via the contact us button. I can’t promise to know all the answers, but I’ll go the extra mile to find someone to help you out.
May I finish by wishing you all a great season in 2016. I’m excited, and can’t wait to meet you all, to get to know you, and to spending time together. WELCOME
Chrissie Linter : Membership Secretary
Submitted by Geoff &Chrissie
