In the Golden Age of Offshore Racing
Thanks to the Yacht Club Italiano (YCI) for the recent photo of BENBOW tied up at their dock and looking very glamorous! BENBOW is the custom 65′ footer Dick designed in 1975 for the Italian industrialist Dr. Enrico Recchi. In the 1984 Giraglia, BENBOW set a course record which held for 14 years.
ESPRIT DU RUEIL is a French TINA sister ship which won the RORC Class III Championship series in both 1967 and 1968. Magnifique!
Thanks to Philippe-Jacques Roux for this recent photo of CORIOLAN looking terrific in the Morbihan, France! A custom 54′ footer built for Christian de Galéa in 1969, CORIOLAN was Dick’s first design with fiberglass sandwich construction.
Congratulations to our good friends Philippe-Jacques Roux and his son François-Xavier on the recent refit of their Carter 37, MUSTANG, named after the spirited wild horses of the American West. Our first reaction when we saw this photo was….WOW!! MUSTANG looks sensational!! Bravo Philippe and FX!
Click on Videos to hear Dick talk about RABBIT, RED ROOSTER and VENDREDI 13!
That’s what Dick calls model boat maker Yves Gaignet. You can see more of his models (maquettes, in French) on his Facebook page.
Here is his superb model of RABBIT:
Dick had a great time giving his book presentation at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco on November 20, 2019. They were kind to video the talk, which is posted below. Wonderful hospitality from the officers and members. Peter Pillsbury, son of former RED ROOSTER owner Davis Pillsbury, made a big effort to bring his model of the boat to the event. Jeff Carlile was also there, and is pictured below with Dick. Jeff recently tracked down the whereabouts of RED ROOSTER herself (yes, a rooster is male but RED ROOSTER sounds better than RED CHICKEN, n’est-ce pas?!). Several years ago, Jeff introduced Dick to Francesco and Mietta Gandolfi. They have subsequently bought and restored RABBIT to impeccable standards. Below are Jeff and Dick with
Once considered lost, GITANA V has been recently spotted in Long Beach, California! Chapter 14 in Dick’s book is devoted to this 60′ footer, custom designed for Baron Edmond de Rothschild. The boat still has its original twin steering wheels, which were Dick’s major innovation at the time. Thanks to Tad Palmer for the photos!
The new owner of SAMPHIRE must have been surprised to run into David and Emily Carter, son and daughter of Dick Carter, on November 25th in the boat yard of West Mersey, England. SAMPHIRE, a Carter 39, was previously owned by Sammy Sampson, the Carter Offshore representative in England.
Dick’s second design after RABBIT was TINA. Dick skippered TINA to win the 1966 One Ton Cup in Copenhagen. To celebrate 50 years of TINA, Yachting Classique magazine ran a cover story on her featuring the TINA sister ship PERSEPHONE (ex-ZEEHAAS, ex-GAZELA).
