About Cotton Blossom

Cotton Blossom is a 3 skin kauri 55 ft Bruce Farr designed sloop, built by Tim Curr and Peter Sowman in Auckland in 1979. She was the glamour boat on the Waitamata Harbour, built to no rating rules with the biggest 3/4 rig at that time.Raced sucessfully both locally and off shore.

Cotton Blossom was sold to Wellington where a name change took place to Cotton Blossom 2 This 'name change' was disputed in court but the judge deemed there had in fact been a name change.

After 3 years of intensive racing Cotton Blossom 2 was sold to Melbourne, Australia where her racing continued including 2 Sydney Hobarts.

Doug and Vonnie bought her in Sydney in 1995 in a rundown state. We bought her with chartering in mind and after 4 years in a shed having a refit she emerged with 3 double cabins each with their own en-suites and a complete upgrade both inside and out.

However her racing days are still not quite over as she has raced in a few longer races in and out of NZ

Panoramic View of the inside of Cotton Blossom

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