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 Boat-  "Black Pearl" - 1973 Cheoy Lee Luders 30
 OWNERS - Chuck Cole
 AREA OF SAILING - Gibraltar, MI, Lake Erie
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We purchased our boat in April 2010 and have been living aboard since May. Emily and I met while working on a boat and and have dreamed of living on one of our own ever since. The boat has kept us plenty busy but we've also made time to sail her around LI Sound. She really is a great little ship! We're performing all of the restoration and repair work ourselves and have started a blog for the Mola Mola at http://svmolamola.blogspot.com

Boat-  "Kennebeck"  -  Luders 36
OWNERS - John Stolz
AREA OF SAILING - Portsmouth, RI
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Website - http://sailingcollective.com/nyc-daycharter

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Boat-  "Acceptance"  - 1976 Midshipman 36 by Luders
OWNERS - Jon Boulton
AREA OF SAILING - UK/ Americas
E-Mail Jon  - Jan 08 I have recently retired and entered the sailing community late in my life. I purchased "Acceptance" a Midshipman 36 from Todd Vogel. The decks have been covered by a sealant. I would love to restore the teak decks, but I have received lots of conflicting advice. I think the layout and design is exceptional. I am a live aboard and do not know too much about sailing ketches and would welcome any advice about the boat or her sailing characteristics.

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Boat- "ANAK" - (Child in Tagalog) 1979 Midshipman 40' Ketch
OWNER - Michael Lagunowitsch
AREA OF SAILING - Hong Kong, China
E-Mail Michael  Converting Anak from Ketch to Cutter 

   
Hope this finds you both well.  Just wanted to update you on the progress of ketch to sloop/cutter  conversion on my Midshipman 40 Anak. Well the work is finished and is had  totally transformed the performance of the boat (positively). The rig is a  double spreader 52ft high with 18ft boom. Compared to what she had before it  is a hugh improvement in sail area and efficiency. Anak has a deeper keel  (5ft 10) over the normal shoal draft keel so I am not sure whether a shoal  draft keel would stand up to this sail area. I had the rig designed by  Yachtspars NZ who did a fabulous job. In doing this project I learned that  Midshipman 'ketch' is not a true ketch in the sense of the word. It is  actually a sloop that had a 45ft tall mast. "Ichiro" a sister ship in HK is of this build. For owners wishing to increase sail area (as she is undercanvassed) Cheoy lee added the mizzen trappings resulitng in hugh weight and of course increased revenue. In a true ketch the main mast is much further forward. Realising that the Midshipman ketch is a actually
bodged sloop greatly faciliated the simplicity of the conversion. Anyway in a nutshell I am VERY pleased with the rsult - the boat balances nicely especially with big traveller. I find that I need first reef in around 20knots apparent. This results in simialr sail area to the old main sail on the ketch rig.
Anyway I am happy to answer questions that any other Midshipman 40 owners may have.
All the best, July 06
Mike Lagunowitsch
Anak 6345
Hong Kong

Boat- "Dragon Lady" - 1973 Midshipman 40' Ketch
OWNER - Barry & Jackie Moore
AREA OF SAILING - Australia - Brisbane and S.E. Coast of Queensland
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Received following email from Barry Jan09  You might be interested to learn that a lady (Martha Slaughter) whose father (Jack Winans) had a Cheoy Lee Midshipman 40 built in 1973 in Hong Kong where they lived; googled the name and the brand and up came our details, with entries on the Cheoy Lee web site and also on the Slocum Spray Society of Australia web site http://www.slocumspraysociety.asn.au/  (I am the president there) The google picked up entries of our exploits through the Spray society (check it out). Point is- through http://www.slocumspraysociety.asn.au/  she emailed me and asked all about our boat as she is wondering if our Dragon Lady is the same Midshipman 40 also called Dragon Lady that her dad had built for himself and the family in 1973 in Hong Kong when they lived there. He actually did some of the work on it himself with her brother but essentially it was built by Cheoy Lee ship yards. They set it up for short handed sailing and had extensive carvings in teak done inside. They tried to sail it to Vancouver but ended up (because of typhoon season) sending Dragon Lady over via ship and they used her for a lot of years, finally moving to San Francisco where after many more years of happy sailing they sold it due to ill health and he took up flying (the mind boggles!!) Now the quirky thing is- our DL was built in Hong Kong in 1973, has carvings inside, was set up for short handed sailing (like her fathers) and in June 2004 we bought her from a San Francisco couple (we understood from them they were the second owners) They then sailed her to Australia in 2002 approx, but later discontinued their trip through ill health. She still had Dragon Lady San Francisco on her when we bought her, after she sat on the hard here for a few years.

I thought you might be interested in this story- so far. Gee I really hope it is her fathers old boat, it would complete her history but we don't know just yet. She is getting her brother to try and dig up some early photos. She talks of teak carvings in some of the cabinet fronts, which we don't have, but we do have carvings around the aft cabin rear ports, which she can't recall- of course over 35 years some owner could have changed either, or her recollections from when she was a small girl could have confused the carvings locations. Who knows?.

Boat-  "Celtic Dream"  - 1978 Midshipman 40
Past OWNERS - Morgan's
AREA OF SAILING - Marmaris, Turkey
 

Email received 12/06 - Hi both,
Just to bring you up to date with our progress on "Celtic Dream". We are now in Tunisia and are spending our second winter here at a lovely little marina called Port el Kantaoui. We sailed from Turkey the summer before last and have cruised the whole of the Turkish coast and the Greek coast en route to Tunisia , some 3000 nautical miles covered. We must commend you on the quality of your site and through it have had quite a few enquiries from other owners and potential buyers of Midshipman 40's, obviously others are appreciating the value also.regards Roger Morgan 

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Boat-  "??" - 1970  Cruismaster 37
OWNERS - David Kudish
AREA OF SAILING - Chesapeake
E-Mail David  From what I understand, this model was designed by Luders, made in Hong Kong by David Cheng not Cheoy Lee

        

Boat-  "Dolphin Song" - 1978  Cruismaster 37
OWNERS - Ronald Rubottom
AREA OF SAILING - NC to Florida
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