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my name is Ge’iff thank you 🙏

What was the price at that time?

@@thomasbonde2118 1st saw it at $110k then below $100k, it was even on TradeMe

@@ross82 I remember seeing that and wondered if it was built for the race, I couldn't find any info but figured that any maxi built at that time would have been for the race

bowpilot55 thank you so much ☺️

Alan Bayne thank you so much ☺️ It still amazes us just how many people’s lives she’s been a part of 💙

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Hi, I know John as well, sailed with him on Royalist and I did days sails during Cowes week in the early 90's on Crieghton's Naturally to help John out I was working on Astrid then, happy memories.

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It may be a smaller boat but you started from scratch and you started AND completed it. Not many people do. Hats off to you too! Hope you are enjoying sailing her now 😊

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Thank you so much! In hindsight we just have just filmed/documented the refit better than we did but we were too consumed by getting the job done. Maybe next time 😂

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Andy UK - SY Corrival - Rival 32 thank you ☺️ I’m sure his wife has reached out to us before on Facebook!

I had the privilege of doing my first trans Atlantic with Les (and Janet), a great teacher and mentor. This boat was his entire life for so long, I feel like I’m seeing an old friend again in Challenger being reborn.. (Please say “Hi” to Gareth form David off Limbara.) Coincidentally I also happened to actually be looking directly at Creightons when she got T-boned by a ultralight at Antigua SW in 1995, hurt the ultralight a lot more than her! Fantastic to see this storied boat rise again.

David S thank you so much for sharing your memories and for your comment - it means a lot ☺️

@@Camarasailing You guys have done a magnificent job, I helped out on some fundraising daysails in the Solent in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s as child, I feel very connected to her. Definitely looking forward to seeing more on You Tube in the future. (One correction. When I recalled the collision in Antigua, I had it the wrong way around. It was a charter crew racing you vessel that T-boned the ultralight - the result was spectacular - commenting on You Tube too early in the AM taxing my memory.)

@@davids1716 Hi David, when did you do the Atlantic with Les. I was crew in winter '82 when we took her from Hamble to St Lucia / Antigua. I still see Les and Janet.

Gavin Ferguson thank you 😊

Thank you so much! We’ve been thinking of doing a longer version with perhaps some FAQ’s answered at some stage, just have to catch up on some video editing first 😉

It was!!!! Hard to describe that feeling!

Phil Chitty thank you ☺️

dunkie976 thank you 🙏

David McArthur thank you ☺️

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Qrap's Vineyard se7ftw thank you 😊

I am with you there. I think that most boat builders should take note of what these amazing folks managed to accomplish WITHOUT THE NEED FOR AN ELABORATE RARE WOOD INTERIOR .... I love the final product. My dream as well but I lost my partner which put an end to our dream to Cruze the great expanse of our oceans and seas. I have an add to find someone with the same dream, potentially gutting a storm damaged boat together, chartering people, (backpackers) from South America to one of the Caribbean islands. A blast, hardly a job but its lucrative a friend did it to survive but it ended up making him over 1000 in a 5 day week...that's what lit the fire under my ass.... also finally settling by purchasing a sailors,, motor yacht marina with rooms for backpackers and travellers a like. Guatemala, panama, never Belize it's a bloody coke highway pit stop, so many deaths it's hard not to think of the insane residents such as McAfee.....whom had gone (CLEARLY) off the deep end that fellow. The riches he has collected and still reaps the rewards (financial of course.) from the sales of his out dated security software. He has squandered his fortune away and in a ten year period he had lost his mind, his money and most recently his ownership of his beachfront 6000 sq foot monstrosity. Today, his mansion stands looking like a ruin, the locals have cleaned the place out. A vacationer watched as if they were worker ants. I'm sure most of you have seen a shot of thousands of ants carrying items heavier than themselves...well now replace the ants with the locals that's what it looked like from afar ..busy busy ants ( locals) leaving with the last item, a framed picture of McAffie nude with a kg in his lap...idiot.

Free ( renaissance ) sailer: FREE auto or manual muted, invisible crew member that can cook, clean, repair, mechanical and human beings, both mental and some physical. naturopathic knowledge, psychotherapy, as hard as this is to believe i actually hold a degree in one of the aforementioned (highly exaggerated,) list of qualifications. Will obviously take orders from both Captain and the co-captain. Will live in anchor, chain, and rigging locker. How can you argue with that? Muskoka, ON. Canada

roderick macgregor thank you 😊

Toby Norman thank you 🙏

Very impressive!

Tom Conces thank you 😊

Christopher Lynch thank you 😊

Ron McCabe thank you so much 🙏

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Saskia Groen-in't-woud thank you 😊

Gregg Butler thank you 🙏

giles goulding thank you so much for sharing! It always amazes us just how many lives she has been a part of!

Hello hello hello !!!! Haha that made me laugh ;-)

Ditch her for one who likes boats. Simple.

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See what you mean. Built for functionality, not that traditional look.

That’s probably why nobody else wanted to buy her because if you had paid someone to do the work you’d probably be left with a bill bigger than what you could ever recover...we just took it as an opportunity to carry on with the lifestyle we love 😉

@@Camarasailing You were in an ideal position to save her, and did! Also explains the fine work. Well done!

Brad Kelly good idea!

I believe you meant the Helford River, or the local Halfords? And what is a “royal ensign”’ please?

@@billfromgermany I did mean the Halford ( blame that on the wine ) A royal ensign is a flag flown on British Royal Navy ships .. on this occasion we could fly one ourselves as the boat was owned by the Duchy of Cornwall .. by association owned by Prince Charles.

@@petersavage4207 OK, thanks. Do you mean what I would call the White Ensign? I know that the RYS and the Dartmouth yachts are entitled to fly the White Ensign, but it sounds logical that a Duchy Yacht should have the same privilege.

@@billfromgermany Yes and yes .... I think the crew of the minesweeper were a little surprised to see one 😀

Ive sailed with Skippers like that ~ so I became one ~ Flag etiquet never our strongest point

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C Mosca thank you 😊

DocuMetrics, Inc. it took a little longer than 12 minutes 😉 It took us 3 1/2yrs, of course there are still the odd projects we do now but then you are never ‘done’ on a boat! We were lucky that the boatyard my husband had worked at offered us a space at the back of the yard for free which was a huge savings and factor in whether we could do it. Due to him working in the industry we got most our materials at very reduced or cost price so it’s hard to put a dollar figure to that that’s realistic for anyone else but be assured we spent all the proceeds from our house sale on this project!

@@Camarasailing _ I did think that you must have professional boatyard experience to take on stripping out a maxi and doing a complete rebuild from scratch. Looks absolutely awesome

This is a live aboard cruiser now, albeit a fast live aboard cruiser. When I see people on who are full time cruiser's who don't even like to put up a Bimini, I question why. We all know the dangers of the sun and skin cancer and then you add in the reflection of the water too. I realize that for racer's they want the extra speed, but as much as I love sailing and all of that, not getting skin cancer is a bigger desire to me!

I agree it detracts from the lines, but of course it's so much more practical forr a cruiser.

Vulture Munchies thank you 🙏

Oh wow, we’ve just had someone comment who was crew on the 1995 Fastnet race as well - crazy!!! Thank you so much for the lovely comment!

I think she was the navigator on the first leg

I think you'll find she sailed on with integrity the ex GBII

are you living on it at the same time ?

@@jhollands68 Ha ha ha. Very good.

Don't forget the cabintop!

Roman Dybala don’t worry - I’ve been told size doesn’t count 😉

Thank you ☺️ Just been enjoying 4 weeks sailing the remote Lau group 👌

Thanks for reaching out! Sounds like an interesting racing tactic! Im sure you got a few stories from your time sailing on her. It’s been awesome to hear from previous crew. There’s quite a few and they all have some great stories to share! A few of them can be found in the comment section 😉

skippy One wow that’s one memory and story of her! She’s been renamed a few times actually. She started off as Ocean Greyhound, then FCF Challenger, to Creighton’s Naturally and we named her after both our kids 😉

@@Camarasailing I remember seeing her racing side by side with another boat famous at the time called "Mistress Quickly" if my memory serves me right! I might have a pic somewhere of them both with Spinnaker's neck and neck going past the Needles heading for Poole!

YOUR bowsprit, HER midships??? ...... sounds like YOU were the one doing the 'CRASHING.'

@@gregtaylor6146 Depends who was the stand on vessel....

@@jamesrichardson476 Good point. A hit on "Creightons'" port side indicates she was clearly the stand on vessel, unless she was overtaking.

MrSychnant thank you 😊 Nobody has mentioned it before but I will take it into consideration in the future 😉

Yes you were the only one.... I had no issues, maybe its the fact I’m on earbuds rather than speakers

Click on the (CC) button and you'll have direct access to the dialogue.

Yes it was awful, why do people add music?

@@BigRedNZ1 Enjoy the hearing you have now. It won't always be that good. We're all temporarily able-bodied.

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Tristan Mac Lennan noted - still acquiring skills on the video editing front 😉

What’s with the music background on most videos? It adds nothing and is very distracting

Who do you think you are Steven Spielberg?

@@Camarasailing No problem, we all start somewhere and from there we learn to get better

I quite enjoyed listening to the music in the background…👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 but you can’t please all the people all the time.. You will probably find that those that moan the most are the one that have never or very rarely upload a video of their own, hence why I never moan🤫🫣😜. I wouldn’t know how to….. Thanks for your hard work and effort, dead jealous of the yacht😬🥰