BOATS AT THE CLUB
This is another in the series of articles aimed at providing you with an insight into new boats and other boats of interest at the Club. Contact Pat Catley through the Club if you are interested in having your boat featured here.
JENDIRI Graham Sinclair and his wife Ros are proud owners of the yacht Jendiri, now at home in Marina West at the CYCSA. Ros is a director of a Tasmanian company (her home state) and is required to take many trips to Hobart to attend meetings so while accompanying her in 2015, Graham decided to purchase Jendiri so they could explore and cruise the Derwent River and historic D’Entracasteau Channel. Both of these waterways offer superb boating opportunities and they thoroughly enjoyed the experience. In 2017 Graham made the decision to re-locate Jendiri from the Royal Hobart Yacht Club to the CYCSA where he would be able to spend more time with her. After much planning and accompanied by friends, Rob Stott and Grant Herring, they set out anticipating a ten day to two week journey. Rob and his wife Vanessa were lifelong sailors and had crossed the infamous and challenging Bass Strait up to 50 times. Their seamanship and knowledge was unsurpassed. Grant was familiar with both the Tasmanian and South Australian coastlines and, even better, he could cook. The trip was a great experience for Graham. Having spent most of his life’s recreation time as a fisherman he had never attempted such a detailed journey with so much planned around weather, stopovers and safe moorings (if needed). It was exciting, frightening and rough. Jendiri never once flagged, taking on some fair seas just off King Island as they headed for Portland. Since then she has been to Port Lincoln and undertaken several Gulf St Vincent trips. The original owner cruised Jendiri extensively along the east coast of Australia and a later owner brought her up to Survey Class 2c after which she was used for charter work around Tasmanian waters. Prior to Graham’s ownership she was displayed in many Wooden Boat Festivals in Hobart. In South Australia she was entered in the inaugural Port Adelaide Wooden Boat Festival. The name Jendiri is believed to be a combination of the three children of the original owner though he regularly joked it was an aboriginal word for ‘ugly children’. Jendiri was built in Hobart in 1979. A 38ft sloop rigged vessel constructed of strip planked Huon Pine 35mm and glued with resorcinol, she was designed by Marine Architect Max Creese and built by Geoff Cuthbertson. The engine is a Ford Lehman 120hp diesel with wheel steering. Jendiri’s centreline length is 12 metres while LOA is 12.19 metres. She has a beam of 3.65 metres and a draft of 1.5 metres. Graham thoroughly enjoys the ownership of Jendiri and the membership of the CYSA. At the age of 77 years, smaller cruises in the Gulf St Vincent might be enough at this time of life, but as all sailors agree, you never know! Thank you for your cooperation with this article Graham. I wish you and Ros many happy sailing years in Jendiri.
Pat Catley
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Graham on board Jendiri
