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Boat - "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

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  Boat- "Orient Star" - 1969   Offshore 50 Ketch
OWNER - Ernie  Copp
AREA OF SAILING - Long Beach, CA
E-Mail Ernie  I have owned the boat since June, 1972. First serious user of boat. Aluminum spars by Famet. I added Alden designed tubular bowsprit, converting to double headsail ketch by installing staysail between original stemhead fitting and upper spreader. Installed roller furling on all four sails in late 70's. Cruised to Mexico and Hawaii several times, and to New Zealand once. While in NZ, replaced all teak inside and outside of cabin, using epoxy, installed Pilkington Glass windows, and rebuilt cockpit coaming and gasbox. Recently restored teak deck very successfully. Will share methods I used to restore decks on request.

Lifetime Cheoy Lee Association Member  Orient Star is for sale, click here for info

Boat- "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.
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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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Click Here for great article on "Lady Pirate" submitted by Al Lingelbach