Author: David Vinnicombe

Plenty of water has passed under Dragon’s keels since I last wrote to you not long after Dragon was launched in 2004. In January 2009 Dragon and I left I our home port of Durban, South Africa for New Zealand. We had stops in St Helena, Fernando de Noronho, Forteleza and then a month in…

Dear JWD, I don’t know how much feedback you get from builders once their boats are launched. For what its worth this is a summary of my experience! I launched Dragon my Tiki 38 (plan 80) on 4 April 2004, which was also my birthday. I was told it was also the year of the…