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Celeste is more than just a racing yacht

Celeste / By Peter Hosking

For most people Celeste has been known only as Celeste the racing yacht. For the family Celeste has also been the holiday cruise.  The pots and pans, the knives and forks, the mugs and the glasses together with the paraphernalia for living on a yacht come out of storage and once again Celeste is ready …

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Cherub joins the CYA fleet!

Yachts / By Peter Hosking

Cherub

YEROMAIS 5 joins the CYA fleet!

Yachts / By Peter Hosking

YEROMAIS 5

Morag Bheag joins the CYA fleet!

Yachts / By Peter Hosking

Morag Bheag

Living with a classic yacht

Celeste / By Peter Hosking

Owning a wooden classic doesn’t have to be a nightmare of paint, varnish, rot and corruption. A planned maintenance program with the work spread over the year makes lite of the work and keeps the yacht pristine.  Planned maintenance also is the great excuse to go down to the boat to do a bit of …

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Celeste as a movie star

Yachts / By Peter Hosking

A long time ago, I think it was 1996, Celeste had the opportunity to star in the movies, or to be more precise, have an extras part in the production of a couple of advertisements. The first advertisement was for some sort of American cosmetic. It had a production team that numbered in tens if …

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Celeste repose

Yachts / By Peter Hosking

Celeste in her new black livery, Mosman Bay.

A brief history of Celeste

Yachts / By Peter Hosking

Sixty five years ago this October, Joyce Jordan took aim and swung a bottle of bubbly at the bows of Celeste. The shower of glass and Champagne made sure the boat was well and truly christened. Celeste, now all those sixty five years later, is about to enter her twenty third season of racing with …

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Celeste launched redux!

Yachts / By Peter Hosking

Set the Wayback machine to October 1953, Outer Harbour SA, and join Joan and Alan Jordan as they launch Celeste II…

Celeste’s first Southport

Builders, Designers, Personalities, Racing, Yachts / By Peter Hosking

I bought Celeste from Simon Fraser in 1995. At the end of our first racing season one of the crew, Jonathan Gibson from memory, said Celeste would be a great yacht to do the Southport race in. Sailed in mid-winter the Southport race was a blue water classic that required category 2 safety certificate that …

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