Team Bacchante Racing
From a Catalogue in 1983:
The design brief for MOONSHINE was to produce a very fast, low cost, easily handled cruising sloop that could be home-built. This design was the starting point of the Farr concept of light displacement, super-
efficient cruising yachts. The displacement length ratio chosen for this design was one that Farr felt would be low enough to allow early surfing downwind in seas, and planing in strong winds in flat water, but not so low as to mean insufficient displacement, and therefore ballast, to provide enough stability to be a fast boat to windward.
Well Bacchante was designed in 1971 and built in 1978 for the then Commodore of the RNZYS who owned her for three years.
An Auckland yacht broker owned before Brian King purchased her and successfully campaigned her for several years out ofLittleton Yacht club winning several offshore events and a PHRF win in the Wellington to Gisborne event in1996.
Brian purchased Bacchante in 1997 and has proudly provided over 236 sailors with learning experiences. He has sailed and taught Boatmaster courses utilising passages from Gisborne to Anarua Bay, Tauranga and Napier. ( more to come)
