What is Maggie and why write about her?

I suppose for my first blog i should write a little about Maggie. As you have probably noticed from the main picture, Maggie is a yacht - a Jedda 22 trailer sailer (TS) to be exact.

The Jedda 22 was designed and built by Ozzie Whittley in the 1970's. I'm not exactly sure how many were made - but quite a few are still about now. They were built on the shores of Western Port in southern Victoria. The Jedda was built to meet the requirements of the JOG (Junior Offshore Group) class and, along with many other trailerable yachts of this vintage and class, is somewhat heavier than the more modern style of TS.

Also worthy of note is that the Jedda is a twin keel TS - either fixed of swing - which is a bit of a rarity in Australia.

Maggie is the only yacht I have owned, having got her in 2002 about the time of my 30th birthday. Claire - the Admiral - will gladly tell everyone that Maggie was my 30th birthday present! Over the past 7, or so, years I have done a bit of tinkering with the way Maggie was set up and even sailed her occasionally, this has been a bit hard over the last 5 years with the crew arriving - but hopefully they'll start to get into it soon!! When I bought her she was apparently owned by an elderly gentleman who was planning to sail her through the Pacific Islands - luckily his family stepped in and the yacht was put up for sale.

I suppose the main reason for my ramblings on here is that very little information on the Jedda exists on the interweb and I thought that it would be good to get it out there, along with the good - or otherwise - times spent on Maggie.

Stay tuned and hopefully i'll be back soon!!