Sail Number: A8
Type: Original Gaff Cutter
LOA: 46’0″ / 14.02m – LOD: 38’0″ / 11.58m – LWL: 27’0″ / 8.22m – Beam: 8’6″ / 2.59m – Draft: 5’8″ / 1.72m – Displacement: 7 tonne – Sail Area: – Original Name: Victory – Original Owner: Mr. Jagger, Hauraki Gulf – Current Owner: Peter Mence – Year Launched: 1906 – Designed by: Arch Logan – Design Number: – Built by: Logan Bros. – Hull Material: Wood – Location:
Historical:
Victory was built originally as a fishing boat. Built by the Logan brothers in 1906. Victory was commissioned exactly 100 years after Horatio Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar. She was built and launched at Logan Bros’ yard in 1906 for Mr. Jagger who leased her for fishing in the Hauraki Gulf.
“Sinful, ginfull rum-soaked men,
Live for three score years and ten,
But we, perhaps the mighty few,
Stay pickled till we’re ninety-two!”
Victory was a big gaff-cutter, including a gaff-topsail. She was constructed on the three-skin diagonal principle, displacing 7 tons. Victory’s design was based on the well known keelers of the Aukland “snapper fleet,” which set long lines and needed to get back fast to the markets, while their catch was still fresh.
Historical Racing Record
- 29/01/1907 AAR Entrant fishing boat hcp race – 2nd
- 19/11/1909 DYC race to Rakino
- 22/11/1909 DYC race Class A – 3rd
- 26/11/1909 RNZYS 1st race of season entrant
- 14/01/1910 DYC race entry
- 28/01/1910 AAR entry, cruising yacht, line honours
- 31/01/1910 AAR bona fide cruising 3rd
- 3/12/1910 RNZYS race
- 14/01/1911 DYC race Class A
- 28/01/2011 AAR cruising yachts race – 2nd
- 11/02/2011 RNZYS race
- 27/01/1912 AAR bona fide cruising class
- 17/01/14 DYC race
- 24/01/1914 DYC race to Kawau
- 31/01/1914 AAR 2nd class
- 28/03/1914 DYC race
- 28/01/1919 AAR 1st class race – 12 m 1st hcp
- 15/12/1919 NSYC Class1 race – 1m 2nd
- 10/01/1920 RNYS cruising race to Waiwera and Russell
- 30/01/1920 AAR 2nd Class race – scr – 1st line -2nd hcp
- 09/02/1920 won Ingram cup
- 16/02/1920 1st line and hcp NBReg 1st Class race
- 18/09/1920 won NSYC Ingram Cup – allotted to ocean racing
- 22/11/1920 combined race to Matiatia – 2nd hcp RNZYS
- 18/12/1920 RNZYS general hcp race; great tussle with old rival MOANA who beat Victory in by 30 seconds
- 14/02/1921 NSYC Regatta – Class 1 – 1st line 2nd hcp
- 21/02/1921 NSYC Ocean Race; 1st line 5 m hcp; rare dusting on beat back to Matiatia
- 26/02/1921 NYSC Ocean Race; V has ability to go to windward in heavy weather
- 12/03/1921 RNZYC race to Rocky Bay; hard breeze to her liking; beat Iorangi to the Bay by nearly 2 min;Fresh NE; only boat to carry topsail
- 30/04/1921 won 2 first prizes in combined cruising race to Isl Bay; breeze fickle and light
- 11/11/1921 Opening cruising race to Matiatia
- 02/12/1921 NSYC cruising race to Awaro Bay
- 22/12/1921 RNZYS race
- 21/12/1921 Ocean race to Tauranga; carried topsail from the start; soon opened up good lead; 1st line
- 31/01/1922 won 1st class race AAR: AHB 60guinea cup
- 06/03/1922 won NYSC Dunning Cup from scr; went into lead under spinnaker soon after start and lead all the way
- 10/03/1922 NSYC Dunning Cup 1st
- 17/06/1922 win AHB Jubilee Cup; also win Macky Memorial Cup
- 15/01/1923 AYC Dunning Cup; Lady Jellicoe on board; finished well ahead of fleet but beaten on time by VANITIE
- 29/01/23 RNZYS Harbour race – 18m 30 s; sailed by Lord Jellicoe; ARIKI won easily
- 12/01/1923 Akarana YC Dunning Cup entrant – scr
- 30/01/1923 AAR 1st Class yachts – 4th line
- 23/02/1923 NBreg 1st Class yachts race entrant – scr26/02/1923 NBreg 1st Class yachts race entrant – 1st line and hcp10/03/1923 RNZYS Ocean race – 2nd line 5th hcp19/03/1923 RNZYS Cruising race to Matimatia – 9 m – 1st hcp 2nd line16/11/1923 PCC opening day races 9m, 5m; Akarana 4.5m28/01/1926 AAR Heather Cup 1st Class race, 3rd line and hcp29/03/1926 DYC cruising race to Rocky Bay – 2nd22/11/1926 Opening Day A&B Classes – 2nd
- 24/01/1927 8m before start RNZYS Macky Cup struck launch MARORO with bowsprit tearing out 6″ cabin top – retired
- 31/01/1927 AAR A Class race 20m; protest port and stbd by MOANA
- 27/01/1930 AAR entrant A Class race 18m 30s
- 27/01/1930 RNZYS Macky Cup entrant
- 22/03/1930 NB Reg A&B Class race – 2nd
- 1997-1998 Logan Cup 1st & 2nd
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Owner/Guardian: (1906-1914) – Mr. Jagger
Owner/Guardian: (1914) – Mr. Joe Winter
Owner/Guardian: Mr. T.M. Alexander
Owner/Guardian: Mr. H.H. George
Owner/Guardian: (1965) – Edith George
Owner/Guardian: M.S. Nicholson
Owner/Guardian: (1984) – J.W. Lee
Captain: George Harold