Is there a web site for researching boat history?
I have sail number 957 and would like to know who built it?
Home build or Professional.?

I have also just got a mozzie sail no 654 and also would like to know any history. Im on the northern beaches sydney and are there many clubs with mozzies in them?

I don't believe there is any in Sydney and possibly NSW.

If you are looking for a club, I race out of Kurnell Catamaran Club and may pic up a Mozzie for myself to have a bit of fun (add spinnaker)

KCC once had a very healthy fleet of Mozzies and there are many pics of them up at our club. Currently we have members ranging from World Champs to novices in classes such as, Tornado, F18, A Class, Nacra 5.8, Taipan 4.9, Maricat 4.3, Maricat 5.0, Nacra 14 sq, Prindle 15. We also have a large catamaran division that races with us once a month.

Racing is on Sundays begining on the 2nd Sunday of September.

I am also from the northern beaches and have heard there is a cat club sailing up at Pittwater. Can someone verify this?

There are Mosquitos sailing at Lake Jinabyne but that's probably a bit too far to go for a day's sailing particularly this time of year.

If the Mozzies were to start their own fleets both on South side (Botany Bay) and on the North Shore that would be fantastic.

Regards,

Peter

There is a club in pitwater sailing from sandy beach I think they mostly sail hobies and they have a web site. I think they call themselvs palm beach sailing club. Unfortunatly Kernell is a little far away but its not out of the question. Ben 654

Hi,
this spreadsheet has been around for a while, Roy (1770) and Brian (formerly 1773) have been working on it. While sail number 957 isn't on there you might recognise some of the boat owners names around that time and find the history that way.
http://www.christiessailing.net/mossieinfo/Boat%20numbers%20&%20names.xls

If you can fill in any gaps in the spreadsheet PM me and and I will pass them on to Roy.

Alternative you could take a few pics of 957's hulls, internal too and we might be able to work out some info.

If anyone knows the Carter Hulls story it would make an interesting read. I've heard snippets of info, apparently he churned out Mosquitos by the dozen, did it in his spare time and was a wood working teacher, any more info out there?

I've owned two plywood Carter hulled Mosquitos and have been told my current boyer hulled boat (1704) is a copy of the Carter hull though it seems a bit more buoyant up front to me, rocker looks the same though.

Darryn

Darryn,

Bloody fantastic to have a register . I have copied it and shall update with all Westernport Bay Mozzies.

If it could then be added to by other Mozzie fleets then perhaps it could then be located on the National Mosquito Website. We could also add columns "sailed at", "build date" and "notes". Sorry I'm just getting enthusiastic .

Regards,

Peter

Darryn,

It didn't take too long to update. I tried adding it as an attachment but the server won't let me upload an .xls file. See if you can get Yacht Club details added from your end. The new yachts at Lake Bonney could also be added.

Does anyone have details of how to upload .xls files ?

Regards,

Peter

You could try working around the restriction by renaming it to a .jpg file. I have created a small xls file, renamed it and attached it. One would have to tell the others about the necessary renaming back to .xls.
Lets see how it goes. It worked for me right now. Right-click - Save As - Do the rename of the extension.
The management may not be crazy about this.