Hi all
probably not the best time to be looking for a boat but I'm looking lol. I don't understand when a boat is made by two different companies. The two Defiance 30s here appear to be made by different companies. Are they the same design?
Bear
yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/sparkman-stephens-30-defiance/242417
www.boatsales.com.au/boats/details/defiance-30-1972/oag-ad-18617791/
Probably. The hull and deck moulds presumably changed hands to different companies. Lydia will know who had these moulds over the build life of the Defiance 30.
curluw is a later version built in coffs harbour likely in vinalester resin . the molds ended up there somewhere.
the second one is built in melbourne by savage , the original designer, he tweaked an S&S design . these boats sail beautifully !
Excuse me but Savage wasn't the original designer of the Defiance 30. See prior forum entries here - SandS and Lydia contributing. Jack Savage did a similar boat Pajen..................
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Sailing/General/S-S-Defiance-30-Plans-Specifications?page=1
Ok so if I'm following this correctly you are all saying that the defiance is a model made by various manufacturers?
the original boat designed by s&s was defiance the one owned by lydia built out of cold molded timber by doug booker a masterpiece in design and construction . there are several builders of the grp defiance boats these were also designed by s&s but to an altered design to allow for the heavier form of construction they still retain some of the performance of the original optimized ior design a quite good pocket cruiser racer with reasonable performance and surprising amount of interior space
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Excuse me but Savage wasn't the original designer of the Defiance 30. See prior forum entries here - SandS and Lydia contributing. Jack Savage did a similar boat Pajen..................
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Sailing/General/S-S-Defiance-30-Plans-Specifications?page=1
savage designed and built the first GRP defiance 30 then it went to northern Australia somewhere , some like culew came out of coffs habour lighter weight ant some 2 foot taller rig .
www.adelaideboatsales.com.au/boat/237251/sparkman-stephens-defiance-immaculate/
Builder Anything Boating Coffs Harbour............can't find them on google now...............
