One Ton Cup – Dick Carter Yacht Designer

April 7, 2023

YDRA – the 50th Anniversary of her One Ton Cup Victory!

YDRA is alive and well in Germany. She won the 1973 One Ton Cup skippered by the great Italian Rear Admiral, Agostino Straulino, and crewed by her owner, Marina Bulgari Spaccarelli. YDRA also won the 1973 Giraglia. Bravo!

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022

OPTIMISTA (ex-OPTIMIST) is back in the water!!

Huge congratulations to owners James Bates and Luísa Alpalhão for their beautiful restoration of OPTIMISTA! Their boat is the original steel OPTIMIST, winner of both the 1967 and the 1968 One Ton Cups!!

March 18, 2021May 18, 2021

We love red Carter boats!

RED ROOSTER and JORAN (a TINA sister ship).

WAI-ANIWA. Winner, 1972 One Ton Cup with skipper Chris Bouzaid.

The Carter 33 production yacht. ‘Undercanvassed’ isn’t the word that springs to mind.

July 26, 2018July 9, 2021

50 Years of TINA – Yachting Classique

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).