C&C 61
C&C 61 & 62
Sorcery (1970)
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| Development | |
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| Designer | Cuthbertson & Cassian |
| Location | Canada |
| Year | 1970 |
| No. built | 9 |
| Builder(s) | C&C Yachts |
| Role | ocean racing / cruising |
| Boat | |
| Boat weight | 57,298 lb (25,990 kg) |
| Draft | 8.25 ft (2.51 m) |
| Air draft | varies with boat 83–93 ft (25–28 m) |
| Hull | |
| Type | Monohull |
| Construction | Fiberglass |
| LOA | 61.25 ft (18.67 m) |
| LWL | 50.00 ft (15.24 m) |
| Beam | 15.08 ft (4.60 m) |
| Engine type | Inboard diesel |
| Hull appendages | |
| Keel/board type | swept fin keel |
| Ballast | lead 22,178 lb (10,060 kg) |
| Rudder(s) | internally-mounted spade-type rudder |
| Rig | |
| General | sloop or ketch |
| Rig type | Bermuda rig |
| I (foretriangle height) | 75.00 ft (22.86 m) |
| J (foretriangle base) | 26.00 ft (7.92 m) |
| P (mainsail luff) | 67.00 ft (20.42 m) |
| E (mainsail foot) | 22.00 ft (6.71 m) |
| Sails | |
| Sailplan | Masthead rig |
| Mainsail area | 975.00 sq ft (90.580 m2) |
| Jib/genoa area | 737.00 sq ft (68.470 m2) |
| Total sail area | 1,712.00 sq ft (159.050 m2) |
The C&C 61 is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by Cuthbertson & Cassian and first built in 1970.
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Production
The boat was built by C&C Yachts, at Erich Bruckmann's custom shop at Bronte, Ontario, Canada, starting in 1970. During its production run, a total of nine examples were completed, though it is possible the last two 61s credited as built were actually constructed and registered as 62 ft (19 m) ketches (see C&C Custom 62).
The preliminary lines, sail plan, and accommodation drawings were completed in 1968 (Dwgs. #68-7-1P, -2P, -3P, -4P). In a letter from George Cuthbertson to Dariend Murray, publisher of The Dinghy, a magazine from Venice, California, on the development of the first C&C 61, and Cuthbertson commented, in part:
The first C&C 61 was ordered by James F. Baldwin of Oyster Bay, New York, and named Sorcery. Sorcery was launched in Bronte, Ontario, early in November 1970, sailed her trials, then headed south. In her first race (St. Petersburg-Venice) she fulfilled her initial objective, finishing first by about a two-hour margin.
Design
The C&C 61 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. Most examples produced have a masthead sloop rig, though at least one was constructed with a ketch rig.
The C&C 61 has an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed swept fin keel. It displaces 57,298 lb (25,990 kg) and carries 22,178 lb (10,060 kg) of ballast.
The C&C 61 has an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed swept fin keel. It displaces 57,298 lb (25,990 kg) and carries 22,178 lb (10,060 kg) of ballast.
The boat has a draft of 8.25 ft (2.51 m) with the standard keel fitted. It is fitted with a inboard engine for docking and maneuvering.
The design has a hull speed of 9.64 kn (17.85 km/h).
When asked in an interview what boat (other than Red Jacket) George Cuthbertson was most satisfied with:
Operational history
There have been several notable C&C 61 racing sailboats, including:
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| Cruising World cover, Nov 1991: Sorcery, a C&C 61, clips along in Cook's Bay off the South Pacific island of Moorea, French Polynesia. Photograph by Larry Dunmire. |
Sorcery (1970)
Sorcery, the first C&C 61 completed, was a Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC) Champion. Her first owner had her built intending to race her extensively, especially in the SORC, which is in part where her name originated (SORCery). Her first race was the initial SORC event: start off at St. Petersburg, down Tampa Bay, then south to a buoy off Boca Grande, then north to finish at Venice, Florida, for a total of 110 miles (180 kilometres). By the time the fleet of more than 80 racers sailed under the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Sorcery was in the lead, followed closely by Manitou, C&C's 1969 Canada's Cup winner. When Sorcery crossed the finish line just after dawn, only one sail was in sight astern. That was Ted Turner, sailing his 12-metre American Eagle.
Sorcery had highly successful racing season in 1971: first in class, first overall in the Annapolis-Newport Race; first in class, fourth overall in the Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race; first in class, first overall in the SORC's St. Petersburg-Venice event; first in class, first overall in the Monhegan Race, winner of the Whittemore Trophy; first in class in the Block Island Race; and first in class, first overall in the Sandy Hook to Chesapeake event.[8] She went on to achieve distinction in SORC and in many other events around the world, from the Solent to Australia to Japan.
Socery was rolled by a rogue wave in the North Pacific in 1976 while returning from Japan, and while she was dismasted, she survived with little other damage. On arrival in Victoria, British Columbia she was fitted with a new mast and departed immediately, competing in the Victoria to Maui Yacht Race, where she took third in class, ninth overall.
Sorcery was cruised by the Lane Family from 1989 to 1999. She sailed from San Diego California, USA to Mexico before crossing the Pacific and eventually the Indian Ocean. She returned to the USA at Cape Fear N.C. USA in 1999. She is an integral part of the book "FROM WHERE WE SAIL" written by Dianne Lane.
“From Where We Sail” follows author Dianne, her husband Robb, and their two young children on a sailing journey in the 90s. Starting in San Diego, the famous Sorcery took them the long way to North Carolina. Traveling from one “big stop” to the next, dozens of wondrous adventures came their way, many on islands or reefs so small they aren’t even flyspecks on a wall-sized map.
While waiting out hurricane seasons, the family lived in New Zealand, the Marshall Islands, Australia, and South Africa. Candid photos capture this family’s life on the high seas as well as time spent on land among many cultures. Sure, some scary things happened, but everyone lived to tell the story of a lifetime.
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Incidentally, Dianne is the mother of one of the editors at San Diego Free Press, Annie Lane. “From Where We Sail” is available right now from Amazon Books, and costs $13.10
Later in 1999, Sorcery moved to he new base in Conception Bay, Newfoundland, then owned by Tom Harris of the Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club. In the fall of 2005, she made a ten-day, six-hour passage to Dingle in Ireland with a crew of only five. There followed thorough cruising of the west coast of Ireland, to be followed by passage south to Portugal and Gibraltar and then east through the Mediterranean to Turkey.
Robon III later was sold and renamed Ranger.
She was again renamed, now to Rainbow and is based out of Italy.
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| Shear Terror, by Anne P. Waddell |
Ketch (1972)
Ketch was the first C&C 61 produced with a ketch sailplan. She sailed under the name Ketch for a number of years, but was later renamed Shear Terror as the family yacht of American artist Anne P. Waddell who sailed in the Caribbean aboard her and produced a painting of her. For a time she was also named Barbara's Song. Eventually she was sold again, named Winkapew and sailed as an adventure charter yacht in the Pacific North-west.
The word “winkapew” (pronounced wing-KAH-poe) is from the Coastal Algonquian language. Winkapew means ‘good person’ and would be used with someone who was from one’s tribe, but was not one’s relative.*
*Source: Coastal Carolina Indian Center, translated by Dr. Blair A. Rudes.
Sassy (1972)
Sassy, owned by E. Russell “Dutch” Schmidt and the third C&C 61 sloop built, was first to finish and the overall winner of the 1977 Super Mac Race. This was the second Super Mac Race held and was the inaugural year for the Chicago-Sarnia International Yacht Race from Chicago on Lake Michigan, through the Straits of Mackinac, and then south on Lake Huron to Sarnia, Ontario. Sassy finished in just over 74 hours elapsed time (just over 69 hours corrected time). Sassy crossed the finish line almost 8½ hours ahead of the second boat in the fleet of 55.
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| C&C 61 Triumph, later renamed back to Joli Photo by Larry Moran |
Joli (1974)
Joli, the fourth C&C 61 sloop launched, was originally owned by William F. Niemi, a partner with Eddie Bauer (the man) and president of Eddie Bauer (the company) in Washington State. After a number of years racing and cruising on the west coast, Niemi sold the boat to skier Mike Lund. In 1978, Niemi unexpectedly ended up with Joli once again when she was impounded for drug smuggling. Lund disappeared and on a side note, was arrested in 2001 after his identity was revealed through finger-printing when he was jailed for child-support charges.
She was sold again, to a surgeon in Arizona. He changed the name to Triumph and added stripes along the hull with "Triumph" incorporated into the stripes - very 1980's style! Triumph was featured in a video from 1983 about Antigua Race Week. Spinnakers in the Wind
Triumph moved to the Great Lakes, mainly Lake Huron and Lake Michigan in the mid- to late-80's when she was bought by a CEO of Dana Corporation. She raced many Mackinac races under several different owners over the next 15 years. In 2002 Bryan and Polly Marie Boissoneault found her at Torreson Marine, Muskegon, MI in and brought her to Lake Erie (Sandusky).
Starting in July 2019 Bryan and Polly are now living aboard Joli full time and cruising in the Caribbean.
The SV Joli Blog
Helisara (1974)
The panache of Cuthbertson-designed sailboats attracted sailors both professional and recreational at home and around the world.
Helisara was started in 73 but launched at the end of "74". She was built for Berlin Philharmonic conductor Herbert von Karajan of Salzburg, Austria, and sailed and raced for years out of Saint-Tropez in the major Mediterranean events. The name of the boat is an acronym of (H)erbert, (El)iette, (Is)abel and (Ara)bel, the names of his third wife, French model Eliette Mouret [de] and their two daughters, Isabel and Arabel.
Helisara was later sold to a French admiralty lawyer who continued racing her in the Mediterranean.
In January 1984 she was sold again, renamed Koh I Noor, and sailed across the Atlantic to Antigua. She was raced in Antigua race week 1984 and then sailed north to Bermuda and finally to the Great Lakes. Koh I Noor was raced occasionally in the lakes until 1992 at which time she underwent a 10 year refurbishment where nearly everything was upgraded or replaced. She went back into the Great Lakes fall of 2002 and was shipped to Seattle in the fall of 2003. She then underwent complete repaint of topsides and bottom at that time and was moored at Roche Harbor in 2004. She remained at Roche until 2006 when she was again put on the hard until fall of 2010.
There has been in excess of $1,200,000 spent on the complete refurbishment of this fine yacht. She was subsequently listed for sale. The following two videos show her interior and exterior, as she appeared at that time:
Koh I Noor Interior Koh I Noor Exterior
A sale listing with almost 70 photographs:
C&C Custom Cruiser Consistently Updated! - 61'
A sale listing with almost 70 photographs:
C&C Custom Cruiser Consistently Updated! - 61'
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| C&C 61 Grampus |
Grampus (1975)
Grampus was completed in 1975 for the Pirelli family in Italy. By 2001 she was still being race successfully, taking class honors in the big boats in the 2001 Giraglia Rolex Cup, at which time the owner was Italian entrepreneur Carlo Alessandro Puri Negri, an heir of the Pirelli family.
Cuthbertson archive
The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario has in its archives the early original C&C design and construction drawings, a retirement donation by George Cuthbertson of his papers. Drawings specific to the C&C 61 series in the collection include:
- 68-7 C&C 61 General
- 71-8 Robon
- 72-3 Ketch
- 72-4 Sassy
- 73-2 Joli
- 73-4 Helisara
- 74-25 Grampus
- 79-13 Brita
- 80-5 Pegasus
Christopher Pratt paintings
The C&C 61 has been the subject of two different works by Newfoundland artist Christopher Pratt. Over the years Pratt owned five C&C yachts. The first was a Bluejacket 23, built in Nova Scotia, and later Dry Fly was his prized C&C 43:
Big Boat
One, titled Big Boat, is an oil on canvas portrait (dimensions 125 cm (49 in) x 293 cm (115 in)) of a C&C 61 partially exposed in the building hall. It was completed in 1987 and is in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
In his book The Prints of Christopher Pratt 1958 - 1991, Pratt writes:
My Sixty-one
The second, titled My Sixty-one, is a colour serigraph on Rising Museum board (dimensions 57 cm (22 in) x 101.7 cm (40.0 in); image: 41 cm (16 in) x 91.5 cm (36.0 in), and was printed in a series of 65 examples in 1988. One copy is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
Pratt writes,
However, Pratt did not buy a Custom 61, stating that it "remains a dream of glory."
C&C Custom 62
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Jubilation (1981)
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| Development | |
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| Designer | Robert W. Ball |
| Location | Canada |
| Year | 1981 |
| No. built | two or more |
| Builder(s) | C&C Yachts Custom Division |
| Role | Long range cruising |
| Boat | |
| Boat weight | 65,000 lb (29,484 kg) |
| Draft | 6.5 ft (2.0 m) to 8 ft (2.4 m) depending on keel fitted |
| Hull | |
| Type | Monohull |
| Construction | Fiberglass |
| LOA | 62.1 ft (18.9 m) |
| LWL | 52.8 ft (16.1 m) |
| Beam | 15.2 ft (4.6 m) |
| Engine type | Caterpillar Inc. 100 hp (75 kW) diesel engine |
| Hull appendages | |
| Keel/board type | Centreboard or fin keel |
| Ballast | 26,000 lb (11,793 kg) |
| Rudder(s) | Internally-mounted spade-type rudder |
| Rig | |
| Rig type | Masthead bermuda rig |
| Sails | |
| Sailplan | Double headsail ketch |
| Total sail area | 1,593 sq ft (148.0 m2) |
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The C&C Custom 62 is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by Robert W. Ball for long range cruising and first built in 1981. The Custom 62 is a development of the C&C 61.
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Production
The design was built under Erich Bruckmann's supervision at the Custom Division of C&C Yachts in Canada, but it is now out of production. At least two examples were built.
Jubilation (1981)
The first Custom 62 was built in a conventional aft cockpit layout with the wheel aft of the mizzen and a keel / centreboard arrangement allowing a 6.5 ft (2.0 m) draft with the centreboard up. She has a cherry-wood interior. She was renamed over the years as she changed owners, Djinn, Marauder, and now Lilia.
Pegaso (1982)
C&C Yachts built at least one other Custom 62 for an American couple, this one as a center cockpit version with an open pilot house. It has a fixed fin keel giving an 8 ft (2.4 m) draft. The boat was named Pegaso and intended for long-range, short-handed sailing, primarily in the Pacific northwest. It has two helm stations, the first in the pilothouse, while the second helm station is aft, just forward of the mizzen mast. The interior is finished in teak with off-white panelling.
Design
The C&C Custom 62 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with double balsawood cores (glass/balsa/glass/balsa/glass), using the same construction method as the C&C 61. The hull has extra reinforcement at the stem, amidships, and transom against potential strikes with submerged objects. It has a double headsail ketch rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel via a Wagner hydraulic system with redundant pumps, lines and cylinders.
The boat displaces 65,000 lb (29,484 kg) and carries 26,000 lb (11,793 kg) of ballast. The design has a draft of 8 ft (2.4 m) with the standard keel fitted or, with the keel / centreboard arrangement, 6.5 ft (2.0 m) draft with the centreboard up.
Accommodations
In Pegaso accommodations include: crew accommodations forward with adjustable pipe berths, a workbench, spares cabinet, and sail bins; a double stateroom with washstand (and head opposite); aft a master stateroom, with a walk-around double berth, large hanging lockers, a desk, and a filing cabinet. An inch-thick port window under the bed allows inspecting the feathering propeller. The salon has a U-dinette table and extensive bookshelves with a settee and pilot berth opposite.
The galley is on the port side, has a "U" shape, with three sinks, a range powered by propane and a large oven. It also has a toaster, microwave oven and a top-opening refrigerator and freezer.
Marauder's interior was laid out somewhat differently.
Systems (Pegaso)
Main engine: fitted with a Caterpillar Inc. diesel engine of 100 hp (75 kW), turning a Luke 30x24 feathering propellor and carries fuel for a 3,000 mi (4,800 km) motoring range.
Electrics: There are two Onan generators of 7.5 kW (10 hp) to power the freezer and clothes drier.[1]
Navigation Equipment:
In pilot house:
- Brooks & Gatehouse instruments
- Wagner autopilot
- Compass
Navigation station in saloon:
- Furuno alarm radar
- Furuno weatherfax
- Magnavox Satellite navigation
- Northstar Loran-C
- Brooks & Gatehouse Hadrian course computer
- 2 of ICOM 720A transceivers
- Sailor Marine VHF radio
Operational history
In a review for Yachting magazine, in May 1983, David Weatherston wrote: "My sea trial aboard Pegaso, on Lake Ontario last November, proved the yacht worthy of her racing heritage. She was responsive, even in a seaway. She tracked smoothly. And under autopilot she required very little corrective steering. On a reach, in brisk conditions, she carried her sail area stiffly, and with an easy motion that would keep any crew in high spirits."
A review in May 1983 in Cruising World magazine stated, "Like all other boats produced from their yard, the 62 combines good looks, performance and comfortable living space. It's good to see that a reputable production yard is making the extra effort to tailor large yachts to owners' needs —certainly they have the experience and skill."
Popular culture
The Custom 62, Pegaso, was featured in a book, Just the Two of Us, by Alicia Blodgett, a book about sailing, about a newlywed couple's adjustment to life at sea and each other, through 47 countries and 45,000 miles. The book was published by Summit in 1999.[6]
Of Pegaso, Bill Blodgett, husband and sailing partner of Alicia Blodgett, said:
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