Bonjour Renaud-Pierre

I was the second owner of the first Sunbird 28 'Juliette' which I purchased from the Belgian first owner. I sailed Juliette over from Belgium to the River Orwell in Suffolk, England and then around the coast to the Portsmouth Harbour, where she was built by Fareham Boatbuilders on behalf of Sunbird Marine. Robin Blain, the joint owner of Sunbird with Alan Boswell, the naval architect who designed the rig, lived in the same village as myself, Warsash and he was a friend of mine who had previously helped me to convert my father's yacht 'Westerlies' to junk rig. I had actually seen 'Juliette' being built before she went to Belgium. I would be very happy to help with any information if you would like to contact me. I live in the south of Morbihan, near the River Vilaine, where I have a Newbridge Coromandel junk.

Renaud-Pierre

I have sent a PM with a link to the article.

Chris

I think that Maurice Donovan was the first owner of Capricorn. If you look at Newsletter 25, Summer 1992, pages 23 - 25, there is a report on the early work on hinged battens which he and I were both involved in. 

Bonjour Renaud-Pierre

Welcome to the JRA and it's French "section".

If you search on the "members" directory you'll find that Gavin Dalglish owned a sunbird 28.

He lives in south Britanny and his boat, a Corribee Coromendel is presently on the Vilaine river. 

There are at least three other junk rigged boat on the Vilaine river.

Amicalement

Eric

I am the happy new owner of a Colvic Craft Sunbird 28 junk rigged and I search any informations about this boat (history of the models, plan, sail details , ….)

It seems that the boat was building in 1983 and imported in France in late 90’s, named Capricorn.

The boat is actually at Granville.

Thank you if you know something about this boat