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Dawn

CountryAustralia
Boat TypeLes Steel Design
Sail NumberMH21
ClubBelmont Yacht Club
Middle Harbour Yacht Club
Sydney Amateur Sailing Club
LOA10.05m, 33f
Year Build1936 (age 88)
Owner (s)Eric Merrit
Marcel Vaarzon-Morel
Rod Jones
BuilderLake Macquarie

Dawn

DAWN is a Les Steel Design and built in long king Billy pine in 1936 at Spears Point. She was built by the same person who built the boat Doris, renamed RANI, on Lake Macquarie in the same year.

The owner now has recorked her replaced all her internal ribs. She is partially restored has 18hp Yanmar diesel engine New Hatches. The owner is Morel & Clare Vaarzon in Arcadia Buttaba,  near Wangi Wangi.

Also See Mustang

Price US$7500. 

Stories

Practical Tips on Seeling boats

MHYC Register 1946/47

Practical Tips Selling Boats - Vaarzon-morel Maritime Lawyers (vaarzonmorelsolicitors.com.au)

Exerts from Article believe written by Marcel Vaarzon-Morel. He sits on the Board of the NSW Ship and Boatbuilding Association of NSW He had a marine boat building business he is also a Solicitor of Maritime Law bases in Newcastle.

Many years have passed since I first dreamt of owning my own yacht, with plans and ideas of this boat bandied about late into the night between like-minded friends over the odd glass of wine, when finally the yacht 'Dawn' appears. The advertisement described her as a 33 foot vessel that had been partly restored and in desperate need of a good home. She was moored in Old Cremorne, Sydney and registered with the Sydney Amateur Sailing Club, a club full of loved yachts of yester-year.

Dawns journey started in 1937, built on the shores of Lake Macquarie north of Sydney by Les Steel, who went on to build 'Rani' the first winner of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race and later 'Struen Marie' a two times winner, so indeed she came from a good stable. Raced out of Belmont Yacht Club on the lake, she ventured south in 1940 to find a new home at Middle Harbour Yacht Club being part of the 'First Fleet' with registration number MH21*. She had been purchased as a present for the new owner's son who sadly was killed during the Second World War. She was then sold by way of letters of credit to the forward-hand who skippered her as she lined up to take part in the flying of colours for the queens 1954 visit on Sydney Harbour.

The new skipper raced her hard until the mid-nineties, and when I met her, she was tired, with almost half of her ribs broken at the turn of the bilge. Entering her after all those years of glory her floor boards were floating in the bilge and the pervasive dank smell of a closed boat, grease and bird's nests hurt the nostrils. There were however, some significant positives and it was these that certainly swayed the decision making process over the next three months, after walking away with the thought that this project was just too hard. So what makes a potential purchaser a boat owner?

Recent research found little by way of real guidance for prospective purchasers as either, the information was written from the broker or registration perspective or was so legalese it provided little practical guidance, not to mention the conflicts of interest found within some industry articles. The premise of this article is to suggest that industry educate their customers in their choices while in return providing client information for the industry so as to provide better service and sales contracts.

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Once Dawn had been viewed for the first time, she was slipped and we were able to see her hull, keel, the condition of thru-hull fittings and rudder stock that all appeared in good order. Her history was known to a degree, but the real surprise was to follow after speaking to a good family friend when he informed us that, Mustang (aka Dawn) had been owned by his uncle (the forward-hand) and we were then able to piece together her full history.

Note: MH21 on the first MHYC register was Mustang.

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