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N2573


Name: Chocolate Smartie

Design: Whisper 7

Designer: Phil Morrison

Year built: 1971

Build type: Amateur

Builder: L. E. Smart

Construction: Clinker

Hull type: Single Bottom

ntoa
07-Feb-2007

The life of N2573 Chocolate Smartie. Design: Whisper 7, designed by: Phil Morrison in 1970

JohnMurrell
07-Feb-2007

Built as a replacement by Laurie Smart when N2542 was written off in a road accident coming home from an open meeting in June 1971, Hamble if my memory is correct, Chocolate Smartie was first measured by Geoff Keene on 25th July 1971 in time for Burton Week.

She went through a couple of owners at Pevensey Bay before Bob Murrell bought her in 1978 and sailed her at Staines until,I think, 1982, when her sold her on to Dougald Weir at Earlswood Lakes SC. Dougald still owns and occasionally sails her I believe and she is a cherished heirloom!

I actully have Laurie's original certificate for some reason!

ken goddard
19-Aug-2010

For the record, Chocolate Smartie, N.2573, was sailed by Dougald Weir at the 2003 Vintage Twelve Open Meeting at Earlswood Lakes S.C.
Ken Goddard




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