Kestrel & Sailmaster 22

Posted By: Bob Ruppert
Date: 7/28/07 12:49a.m.

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Good morning Tim Flagg and Kestrel and Sailmaster 22-skippers in the USA, 2 years ago I started the Dutch Sailmaster Club and till now we discovered 40 yachts (22'and 26')in Holland and started a shipregister.I'm very curious about the period in which Dutch Yards Gusto and van de Giessen-De Noord started building the 22' Kestrel, for Seafarer.The S&S design for this boat with nr.1631 is dated 5/12/1960. Do you have in your boat a bronze plaquette with name :Seafarer Kestrel, yard, year etc.? If so will you be so kind to send me a photocopy? By the way: we visited the present ICG Gusto in Schiedam. All files about the period 1950 -1980 are somewhere stored in a wooden shed. Till now we have only seen fiches of the 26'and the 3 builded 45'Sailmaster Yawl. Best regards, Bob/ Zierikzee/The Netherlands