| Alden
32 Owners |
8 Members |
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"Endless Summer" - 1968 Cheoy Lee Alden 32 Motorsailer
OWNER - Doug Villepique
AREA OF SAILING - San Francisco, Calif
E-Mail Doug
12/99
James. I last wrote you that I was planning to sail to
Tahiti in my 68 Cheoy Lee Alden 32 Motorsailer, "Endless
Summer". Hey, I made it, so I kept going. We made the
crossing from Puerto Vallarta to the Marquesas in a fairly
respectable 26 days, without even using all of our diesel. I was a
bit worried about boat speed, but we made a faster passage than
many of the bigger, heavier boats. Click
Here for rest of story and pics |
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"Wild Irish Rose" - 1973 Alden 32 Motorsailer
OWNER - Larry Young
AREA OF SAILING - Callao, VA/ Chesapeake Bay & N.C.
E-Mail Larry |
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"WHITE CLOUD" - 1969 Alden 32
OWNER - Gary Wingert
AREA OF SAILING - Northwest Coast, US
E-Mail Gary |
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"Natalie K" - 1978 Alden 32
OWNER - William G. Vought, III
AREA OF SAILING - Chesapeake Bay
E-Mail William |
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"KINE AHORA" - 1970 Alden 32 Motorsailer
OWNER - Terry Taylor
AREA OF SAILING - San Francisco Bay Area
E-Mail Terry |
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"Perro Azul" - 1968 Alden 32
OWNER - waiting to hear from new owners
AREA OF SAILING - Southern Calif. & Mexico
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"Bamboo Bomber" - 1968 Alden 32 Motorsailer
OWNER - Michael Shea
AREA OF SAILING - New England
E-Mail Michael
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"La Reina" - 1969 Alden 32
OWNER - Brad & Chris Olsen
AREA OF SAILING - Los Angeles
E-Mail Brad &
Chris Comments: 9 years ago my brother called me up
and told me about a classic sailboat in the harbor that had fallen
into disrepair (an understatement) that was available for a good
price. Here we are, nine years later and she is ready to go sailing!
Here is a short list of the work: New aluminum mast & boom.
New whisker Pole New standing rigging, including chain plates
New roller furler New main sail & genoa. New electric toilet &
marine sanitation tank/system
New windows in cabin. New port lights. New radar & electronic
navigation system
Restored teak interior & exterior (ongoing). New paint top to
bottom. Autopilot (in progress)
Water maker (in progress). Rebuilt diesel motor -Perkins 107. New
propellor
New bow pulpit. New windlass. New CQR anchor, 200’ chain with 200’
rode
Completely re-wired electrical system. And the list goes on...
The Pacific Ocean is our back yard and we can’t wait to go play in
it.
Web address: sailinglareina.com (site will be up soon, Dec 2017) |
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"Raymond" - 1968 Alden 32 Motorsailer
OWNER - Daniel Morris
AREA OF SAILING -San Francisco, Calif
E-Mail Daniel |
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| Alden
36 Owners |
1 Members |
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"Koana" - 1966 Alden 36 sloop
OWNER - Mark Hennelly
AREA OF SAILING - Greenwich, Conn
E-Mail Mark
This boat has a custum house,and the boat was built for A.L.
Terwileger, a past commodore of Annapolis, I have been sailing her
for the past 25 years. She is a stable sea worthy platform all seven
tons of her! |
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| Alden
42 Owners |
1 Members |
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"Hope San" - 1958
Alden 42
OWNER - Patrick Monika Abrecht
AREA OF SAILING - Newport Rhode
Island
E-Mail
Patrick Hope San is carvel built
on ipol, deck refastened and recaulked, cabin top new plywood with
dynel, outside striped and refurnished, interior will be finished
after winter 04-05 |
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| Alden
44 Owners |
7 Members |
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- "C.R. Eden" - 1974 Alden Offshore 44
 Owner - Joseph & Lynda Creeden
AREA OF SAILING -Cucamonga, Ca/Caribbean
E-Mail Joseph & Lynda |
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- "Serius" - 1970 Alden Offshore 44
Owner - Samellas
AREA OF SAILING -New England
E-Mail Samellas |
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"Dosar" - 1965 Alden 44 Ketch
OWNER - Alan Stowell
AREA OF SAILING - Florida & Bahamas
E-Mail Alan Alan
has owned a Clipper 42 and a Richards Offshore 41 |
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- "Mandarina" - 1972 Alden Offshore 44
Owner - Jerry Flint & Carolyn Edwards
AREA OF SAILING - Mediterranean
E-Mail Jerry &
Carolyn We are the third owners of Mandarina. She
was converted from centre wheel to off-set wheel steering to
enhance the cockpit area. We live aboard (with our two dogs)
and are currently in the Agean, having spent last summer in the
Ionian. We are restoring Mandarina to her former glory, a
slow and painful process, but the initial results are very
pleasing. The teak decking will be causing us problems in
the future! Jerry & Carolyn have
submitted a great page on their restoration work,
Click Here
for page
Jan 2011 Sad update from Jerry and Carolyn
It comes with great heartache to
report the loss of our floating home for the last 10+ years, “Mandarina”.
She was an John Alden designed Off Shore 44 ketch, built in 1970.
We suffered a severe knock down in the South China Sea some 175
nautical miles south of Hong Kong, during a tropical storm. The
yacht ended up being holed and dismasted, without power and with a
damaged, unserviceable, engine.
We were rescued by a passing tanker, and taken to China.
Mandarina surprised all, including our Insurers, by turning up,
still afloat, but very low on her marks, in Vietnam, some two weeks
later. She had been “raped” by the local fishermen, all deck hard
ware had been removed, including the masts and standing rigging, and
it was reported that the interior had been very seriously damaged.
She had obviously shipped a lot of water.
Our (UK) insurers advised us not to pursue recovery from Vietnam,
due to local issues, political climate etc. They paid up in full.
It is further proof of the standard of build and design of these
wonderful yachts surpasses all rivals, past and present, to be able
to withstand a voyage of some 300+ nautical miles, through
treacherous conditions, not under command, without foundering.
Jerry & Caz Flint
2013 update: We got an email
from a Frenchman in Vietnam who inquired about Mandarina and sent us
the following picture
Sad ending to a great boat, james |
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- "VOYAGER" - 1973 Alden Offshore 44
Owner - Tom & Joanne Rowland
AREA OF SAILING -Kilmarnock,
Virginia (Chesapeake Bay)
E-Mail
Tom & Joanne Just purchased last
month and plan to begin major restoration in a few months and we
hope to put it back in the "WOW" category within a year. Like
most of the boats on your site this will be a labor of love.
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"Muscadine" - 1973 Alden 44 Ketch
OWNER - Roger & Lee New
AREA OF SAILING - Lonian Sea, Greece
E-Mail Roger & Lee
Moved inboard to live on her in Sept 2011, having
owned her since Feb 2009, when we bought her in Leros, then took her
to Mallorca, only briefly to return to Greece. Currently moored
Lefkas Marina, Lefkada. |
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"Rain Ketcher" - 1974 Alden 44 Ketch
OWNER - David Linsdeau
AREA OF SAILING - Detroit, MI
E-Mail David |
| Alden
50 Owners |
15 Members |
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Allen Sewell emailed us that there were 14 of
these built by Cheoy Lee |
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"Endurance" - 1970 Offshore 50
Ketch
OWNER - Jeff Copley
AREA of Sailing Venezuela
E-Mail Jeff, Jeff did a
singlehanded delivery from Florida to Venezuela |
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"LADY ANN" - 1969 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Al & Ann Lingelbach
AREA OF SAILING - US East Coast
E-Mail Al and
Ann
Lifetime Cheoy Lee Association Member |
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"AVE MARIA" - 1967 Offshore 50 Ketch, Hull #
1
 OWNER
- Paul Richmond
AREA OF SAILING - Sea of Cortez to the Caribbean
Email Paul |
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"Lady Pirate" - Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Donald & Debra Drost
AREA OF SAILING - Caribbean & Florida
E-Mail Donald &
Debra "Lady Pirate" is for
sale, Click Here for the ad |
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"Orient Star" -
1969 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Tuckerman Esty
AREA OF SAILING - ???
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5/05/05 - We received the
following email from Al aboard Lady Ann, Does anyone know of
this Alden and who owns her?
James - I have been out of touch for a while - and tried to send a
message to Ernie (fellow owner of an Offshore 50 - Orient Star)
but the message bounced back. The photos I tried to
send to Ernie are attached. They were taken within the past three
weeks. Jaguar may well have been the victim of one of the
hurricanes last season. Note the damage on the port after quarter
in photo #2.
The photos were sent to
me by a good friend, who was on his honeymoon, and saw Jaguar
while on the ferry to the airport in St. Martin on the way home,
and recognized her as a sister ship. Regards, Al
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"Boojum" -
1970 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Anne Mooney
AREA OF SAILING - Oyster Bay, NY
E-Mail
Anne Former name was PENRHYN and was purchased by Anne in
2011 |
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"Bacchanal Too" -
1970s Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Anthony Gunn
AREA OF SAILING - Southern Caribbean
E-Mail Anthony
This Offshore 50 was a ketch and now sits as an empty shell. I
am completely rebuilding her (interior and new decks and cockpit)
and will re-rig her with a tall-rig sloop and asymmetrical
spinnaker/gennaker; aft cockpit.A
few years back, you had updated your ab fab web site with the news
that I had bought a bare empty hull of an Offshore 50 in St Lucia
and was about to restore her. We launched the basic rebuild in Nov
2003 and since then have done her up a lot, sailing from St Lucia to
St Vincent & the Grenadines, to Barbados and now up the chain
to Dominica.
www.cariaccess.com
www.beachcombershotel.com
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"Renegade" -
1973 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Peter and Josette Werk
AREA OF SAILING - Tahiti
E-Mail Peter &
Josette
Renegade sailed around the world from 1977, returned to Nouméa (New-Calédonia)
in 1978 and has been in Tahiti from September 1979 to this date in
Tahiti |
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"Maeva Rainui" -
1972 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Tim Scudder
AREA OF SAILING - Rhode
Island
E-Mail Tim
I sail mostly Eastern sea board particularly the Vineyard
to Main, Nova Scotia and Bermuda. I do want to extend to any
Association member that comes across me, if your cold wet and tired,
row over and I’ll give you a hot meal, a beer and a dry berth.
Lifetime Cheoy Lee Association Member |
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"Terra Nova" -
1968 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Mark Topping
AREA OF SAILING - New
Zealand
E-Mail Mark
Two major refits -recently upgraded with Andersen
electric winches, in boom furling and the addition of a hard
dodger over the cockpit to give some relief from the NZ sun. |
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"Lady Lucretia" -
1980 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Carel Visser
AREA OF SAILING - Cape Town
E-Mail Carel
1/2012 - At the moment she is underway on a ship from Baltimore to
Cape Town where she will undergo a refit. |
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"Petrana" -
1968 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Paul Deeth,
AREA OF SAILING - Antiqua
E-Mail Paul
In 1968 Cheoy Lee built an Offshore 50 for me which my wife and I
named Petrana. I owned her for 30 years before selling her to
my son, Paul, who still owns her. I based her in Antigua but
sailed her extensively throughout the Caribbean and then the
Mediterranean, including the Black Sea and Russia.
My wife and I made a circumnavigation during 1982-87
Petrana is still here in Antigua and Paul cruised in her and races
her every year in Antigua Classic Week, Peter Deeth. |
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"White Swan" -
1984 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Kevin Whitcomb
AREA OF SAILING - San Francisco
E-Mail Kevin |
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"Aphrodite" - 1969 Offshore 50
Ketch
OWNER - Allen Sewell
AREA of Sailing Hobart Tasmania Australia
E-Mail Allen 11/17
Aphrodite is the original launch name I think. She went to BVI and
then in the 80s was in Vanatu where she washed ashore in a cyclone.
She was refitted and came to Australia and was much loved and kept
in good order by a surgeon based in Queensland. When his wife put
her foot down and said that as he was in his late 70s he had to
sell. I luckily for me, happened to spot the yacht on my way back to
Tasmania from North Queensland on my beneteau 461. I said the broker
if he could sell my yacht in the week I was spending in Brisbane I
would buy it and so it was, much to my shock. I then wondered
whether I was a nutter for sailing a totally unknown yacht the 1200
nm in our notoriously challenging weather back to Hobart. It behaved
beautifully, was a much stable and comfortable platform and faster
than the beneteau. I continue to be very pleased with it's
performance and though I continue to upgrade electronics the basics
of the craft are solid as is.I will send some photos if this email
connects. Do you have a secure way of receiving money.
Sincerely, |
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"Mystique" -
1969 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Thomas & Kau Hooker
AREA OF SAILING - Savannah Georgia
E-Mail Thomas & Kau |
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"Vagabundo" -
1968 Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Richard and Amber Kipp
AREA OF SAILING - Portland, Oregon
E-Mail Rochard &
Amber 2/2020 We did a two year restoration
including complete electrical, mechanical, eliminated the old
rudder, replaced with a Santa Cruz 50 rudder and Edson steering
system, carbon fiber masts. We have owned it since 1974. The
restoration was very extensive including a bow thruster, the
electrical improvements include the Eplex management system, new
122HP Steyr engine, and 12 KW generator.
We will be more than happy to share any other information you may
want, just let us know. |
Click
Here for great article on "Lady Pirate" submitted by
Al Lingelbach
Here is what I believe is a complete list of all the OS50s built by
Cheoy Lee (and one hull built of steel in Holland) as created (for
the most part) by Neil Helleberg of the Alden office, just before he
closed it down and the plans were all sent to M.I.T. The printed
material is from N.H., while the penciled notes are mine. As you can
see, there were variations on the main theme (full keel, aft
cockpit) but there were more than 20 hulls built. Albert
Lingelbach aboard "Lady Ann"
Click Here
for PDF file submitted by Al |
