V 99 Corio Vertue

Corio Vertue was owned for many years by Andy Indrans who ran a successful website about her adventures.

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Description

This profile drawing shows the hull and deckworks correctly but Corio Vertue has a single spreader metal mast with a simple masthead rig and no inner forestay.  This is more like the rig found aboard the grp Vertue II’s, as shown below:

 

 

 

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The simple masthead bermudan sloop rig used aboard Corio Vertue.

 

 

Corio Vertue was raced hard and enthusiastically in her younger days.

Specification

  • Laurent Giles design No: 366
  • Builder: Gil Albut, Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia
  • Launch Date: 1960
  • Hull Material: Kauri on blue Gum
  • Deck: Ply since 1991
  • Engine:
  • Ballast keel material:
  • Doghouse: Long
  • Cockpit: Short
  • Berths:
  • Rig: Masthead bermudan sloop with wooden boom.
  • Mast: Aluminium mast with single spreaders.
  • Heads'ls: Furling genoa
  • Backstay arrangement: Single to Bumkin
  • Home Port:
  • Current Owner:
  • Contact details:
  • Email address:
  • Other comments: Corio Vertue was one of the first Vertues to be built in Australia.