The boat’s sweeping sheerline, shapely stern and varnished ketch rig were more classic American features than anything and the guesswork centred on John G. Alden or Herreshoff, or other American designers.
But the new boat in the bay, Destiny, was built to lines that her owners – Rick and Chrissie Haslet – had dreamed about for decades before beginning construction.
“Aesthetically she’s my design,” Rick explained. “She’s loosely based on an Alden Malabar – but a ketch, not a schooner. Her stern comes from a Starling Burgess design, Nina (a 26m schooner that disappeared in the Tasman sea in June, 2013).”
“My first boat was a 6.7m Alberg Sea Sprite which I bought as a bare hull when I was 22 years old,“ said Rick. “I was constantly redesigning it to make it better.”
He sailed.”
