Compass Southerly 23

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Are there any other Compass 23s on this forum? 

We are also in Woodford Bay.

Stephen
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Stephen, Welcome Aboard.  Yes we have a few Southerlys on the Register.  The Register is on the www.compassyachts.info site, on the menu. If you go in that way, you can come to this Forum off the Forum TAB.

We are a pretty inclusive group and welcome all - don't be afraid to ask questions.

Regards

Geoff Raebel
Registrar

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From Don Lees, wishing us all a Merry Christmas and a successful 2018 Regatta.

The Southerly 23 was a Compass in-house design by Heuchmer & Lees. The boat was officially launched at the second Sydney Boat Show in 1968. The timber diagonal planked plug for the hull mould was built at the Kogarah factory  and sold as a boat together with the deck & cabin mouldings out of the S23 production deck/ cabin mould. 

That same year the Australian company formed  a Compass Yachts NZ partnership wth NZ's  Hewitt & Maurice for the boats to be built at Maurice's Auckland factory at Te Atatu. To kick start the NZ operation off a complete set of moulds was freighted over from Australia with an already laid up boat in the moulds.  (We won't ask Don if NZ customs noticed a 23' yacht hidden in the moulds.

The C23 was to be the first ever NZ produced  GRP production yacht moulded yacht in NZ  ( a first for the Aussies for that one)  I still have the NZ Herald article & photo. The NZ partnership ceased after 3 years. But collectively  during that time we bought out the Alan Smith designed Compass Easterly 30 & Compass 38. ( Pacific 38 in NZ) . 

The Australian Company sold the moulds of the S23 & Westerly 26 around 1973 to two of their sub contractors Cronshaw & Delbridge who restyled the two boats  and marketed them under their Pacific Yachts banner.  

Don Lees