Tara
FULL CIRCLE FOR TARA The 1968 Britton Chance Jr designed Tara, formerly Complex VI, has returned to the country where she was built by Vator oy in Helsinki over half a century ago. After reconstruction in Italy in 2012, Tara returned to Finland in 2019.
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n 1968 Dr. Britton Chance, winner of the Olympic gold in Helsinki in 1952, commissioned his son Britton Chance Jr. to design a new hull to be built by the Finnish shipyard Vator Oy AB. The boat was built with a quite unique construction, as seen in the picture. All the laminated keel floors from rudder post to mast foot were integrated into the frames from gunwale to gunwale. Between those heavy frames were the thin bent frames. Also the boat is without a traditional bilge. With the name of Complex VI and sail number US 78, this was the last wooden construction of the Helsinki shipyard. In 1970 the boat was acquired by Thomas Sprecher, a former
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