Foo Fighter enters Three Peaks Race 2009

Hello Adrian,Eric and I have rashly entered Foo Fighter in the Three Peaks Yacht Race which starts on the 20th June .For those unfamiliar with this event,this is a sailing race from Barmouth to Fort William and just to spice things up at least two of the crew have to run up and down the three highest peaks in England,Wales and Scotland!For more information on what we are doing go to Justgiving.com and punch in Foo Fighter.We would be very grateful if you could post this Adrian as we are trying to raise as much as we can for a worthwhile cause.Thanks Tim

See: http://www.threepeaksyachtrace.co.uk/

Thema

Hello adrian ,

My name is Theo Hunink and I'm sailing on the "Thema" formaly "Rose" an Ufo 34 from Holman&Pye and build by Colvic.
First my compliments of the "renegade site" and the "Ufo News", wich I 'found on the internet.
My English is not so well, so sorry for faillures that I make, but I'm trying .

The "Thema ist the boat is of very close frend of mine, and we are sailing it thogether. He bought the boat in 2006 and we saild the boat for two months
then we stripped the hull and coated it with epoxy. The deck was stripped and repaird and we build an steeringwheel on it.
After five months we could sail again and renamed it to "Thema".
Our Port of registry is in Urk (The Netherlands) at the IJselmeer, an very nice place to sail and one hour driving from our home.
This winter we are working at the inside of the boat, new seeling, heater and navigation instruments to make everything so confeniant as possible.

The reason why I 'm writing is I want to know more about the Ufo 34, do you have any documentation of the builder or specifications of performance?
You can also put us at the owners list
Name ship Thema
Owner Matty van der Linde
country The Netherlands
port of registry Urk

Tony wants a UFO

Hi, I'm looking for a UFO 34 to buy. Anyone know of one? If so please call Tony on 07961 880 520.

Yes Tony. Jackpot is for sale, but she's in Madeira. Still it would be an interesting trip back home. You can get her owner Filipe's email address from UFO List at www.renegaders.co.uk

UFO 31 keel bolt mystery

Sorry to but in on a UFO34 site but I am trying to get some info on my UFO31. Does anybody know if Holman & Pye are still trading as I have telephoned several times without success. Alternatively does anybody know if the keel bolts on the 31 have galleries in the keel to enable withdrawal without dropping the keel.Enjoy sailing your 34's they are great boats!!Regards Terry k

Renegaders website has visitors from around the world

Follow the link to see the location of visitors from July 2007. http://www3.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps_history.php?url=http://www.renegaders.co.uk&category=free&show_thumbs=yes

Celebration becomes Foo Fighter

Hello Adrian,We have just bought Celebration from Dougie Arnold.We have renamed her Foo Fighter and her home port is Rye.Your excellent website convinced us that we were making the right decision to go for a UFO. The delivery trip from Portland to Rye last weekend was a good shakedown and proved what a quality yacht the UFO 34 is.RegardsTim Barr-SmithEric Zon

Brandybottle competes in RTYC Triangle race

RTYC Triangle race 2008Hi everyone.Good to see the site is still being updated. Brandybottle took part in the Royal Torbay Yacht Club Triangle race this year, first time for me but not sure if she has done it before with Roger and Rudi. We did not do too bad on our first outing with a 2nd in class for leg 1. 6th for leg 2 and 4th for leg 3. Sadly we did not manage to get amongst the proper prizes but there's always next time. The wind conditions where lively across the Celtic sea following a windless start in Torbay hard on the wind with 30 kts plus towards Kinsale. The fore stay bottle screw gave up about 17 nm from kinsale but fortunately we keep a spare and after a short stint on the foredeck John, my crew managed to replace it. Kinsale to Tregieur was another bashing with the winds in the high 20's again but Brandybottle looked after us well. Tregieur to Torbay was shaping up for more of the same with neither John or myself looking forward to another session of walking around the backs of the seats but as we left the winds dropped to around 22-25 kts allowing us to free off the wind a bit and pick up some speed.All told another good outing for the boat and myself. Will be fitting a wind vane for the next race though - Cant be doing with this hand steering game.Good sailingPaddy.