Allan,
The rolling in breezy downwind situations disappears when you take in a reef. I`ve expirienced it many times on my dads boat. Shes an easy boat to reef, no need to go foward, there are two reefing lines for each reef (4 in total). Someone mentioned coring, these boats are not cored, solid glass throuhout. There is a book called Dangerous Waters by David Philpot. He sailed a Nonsuch 30 out of Owen Sound
Ontario and undertook a
circumnavigation. His boat was dismasted somewhere south of
Australia I think. The boat was abandoned and Philpot rescued. A few months later a freighter came across it drifting in mid ocean and hauled her topsides with the ships crane. I don`t know her
hull number, but I think the boat is still sailing back in
Ontario waters. The is a Nonsuch association, possibly some of their members would know of the boats
history more than me. His
mast was from a pre 1984 boat a the reason for the
dismasting was that too many fittings were screwed to the mast around the same plane. After the mast recalls in 1986 this was
solved on all Nonsuches as the new bottom sections were thicker. The later models sometime in the 90`s came with carbon spars. Today Nonsuch 33`s are available new. The manufacturer is Wigger`s in Bowmanville just east of Toronto. Pricey though...start at $239000. CAN. For two people a 30 is plenty huge. The Ultra model comes with a pullman berth foward. The
Classic is kind of laid out similar to a Niagara 35 inside with the setees foward. Ultras typically cost more than classics. A typical used Ultra 30 in
Canada today goes for between 90 to 125K. If your looking for a cozy cruiser and aren`t planning to round the horn, you`ll like this boat. On my dads I was once
single handing with the auto pilot
remote in my hand. I got into a tacking duel with some buddies on a CS 36 Merlin. While I sat confortably on the fordeck with a
beer in hand they were cranking away on their huge 153
genoa. As soon as they would have it cranked in I would push a button to tack and watch them
work all over again....see Nonsuches are fun!
Allan
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