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12 April 2005

IMPORTANT NEWS!!! I’ve been meaning to add a Forum to this web site for a long time, as I never seem to find the time to update this news section (as you can see, almost a year since the last post. So now, please use the link on the left to the Forum. You will need to register if you want to post anything on the forum - I suggest you use your boat name to register. Please don’t forget to keep sending me the details of your boats for the database.

This page wil be discontinued from now, but I won’t delete it for some time.

26 May 2004

email from Brenda Dambrink...
As we are still in the prosess of making our Zwalker as new as possible, I am now looking for an old sprayhood, or a design on paper, so that I can make one myself. Do you happen to know anyone who might have kept an old version of his sprayhood? I am upholsterer myself, so I think i can make one myself, but if there are people willing to sell one to me I am also interested. I hope you can help.
We would love to have an email addres with our boatname: Zwalker, so I hope you can still provide that,
thanks for your help.
 

4 April 2004

email from Marian Martin
We are helping someone to arrange a 2005 cruise in company, to the Azores and Back, aimed at people whose boats are no longer eligible for the AZAB race, because they are too slow. At this very early stage, we have two Rustler 31 coming. I would greatly appreciate it, if you could mention this event on your website and give a link to the web pages we have supplied for the man who started the idea. http://www.boatsyachtsmarinas.com/azian/
We will, of course, reciprocate by providing a link to your club site, next to the names of any Rustler 31s that decide to join in. Best regards Marian Martin

marianmartin@boatsyachtsmarinas.com

19 August 2003

email from Paul Anstey...
I spotted your Rustler web site.
I have a few old pics which may be of interest.  I may also be able to fill in some details on the boats if anyone is interested. I stated my working life as Anstey Yachts apprentice in 1965.  Bit of a privileged apprentice.  I really learnt a lot from Ron May (employee #1 and foreman), Alan Wills and Wally Cartwright who built all the early boats. These days I earn a living as a boat surveyor in Fort Lauderdale. We sailed Whiplash the year before Dad started Anstey Yachts.  Whiplash was really the prototype Rustler.  Stetson was the last Rustler we seriously campainged.  She was the built with a more race orientated interior, a slightly taller rig extra ballast and the cockpit slopes aft.  Contrary to the mention of her in your web site I do not remember us building her specifically for the Fastnet.  That was the time when we were thinking of building a fin keeled boat and finally settled on the Alan Gurney Rancher 41 and C & C 28 (Trapper). I have  degraded the pics to email I can send better versions if you like.
Paul Anstey
[See the Library page for these photos, published with thanks to Paul].

02 August 2003

Some years ago, there was an article in Yachting Monthly about a yacht that was rolled over and abandoned in the Bay of Biscay. The Yacht was the Rustler 31 'Lennoxton', which was subsequently recovered and is being restored somewhere in Kent.
Does anyone know which issue of YM this appeared in, or better still, have a copy (sadly, I threw away lots of back issues a couple of years ago ... I KNEW I'd regret it!)? The owner would like to locate it (and so would I).

02 August 2003

The Gathering At Shotley:
A total of 8 Rustlers made it to Shotley, and several more crews arrived by car. Sadly, Rob Arensman and "Fayaway" were held up by adverse winds and couldn't make it. A total of 24 dined at the "Shipwreck".
I hope to add some photos from the gathering in due course, but the film's still in the camera.
If anyone would like to submit a write-up of the week-end's activities, I would be delighted to publish here.

August

A short piece on Rustler 31s can be found in the August issue of Yachting Monthly, page 100. Prices seem to be holding up well!

21 July 2003

email from Andrew Prentice of Eumenides:
"Leaving Weymouth for Plymouth/Falmouth thenceGran Canaria via La Corunna or Vigo next week (28th Jul)"

11 March 2003

email from RK Anstey...
Whilst trawling the net looking for things I came across your website and very interested I was too. I am the youngest Anstey son and remember many happy times at the Denmark Road factory where we built the boats. I and my mother still have many photos of the boats in production , sadly my father died two years ago. I may be interested in purchasing a Rustler if any are going to come on the market and please contact me if I could provide you with any more information,
Regards Richard Anstey

12 April 2003

A Press Release from Tony Chamberlain:
----Original Message-----
From: Tony Chamberlain [mailto:marton@eurobell.co.uk]
Sent: 12 April 2003 12:30
To: Yachting Monthly; Sailing Today; PBO
Subject: Rustler 31 Rally August 2/3
After many dormant years the Rustler 31 Association is planning a rally at Shotley Marina (Suffolk) over the weekend of August 2/3. Any owner, or would be owner, of this classic long keeled Kim Holman design would be most welcome. Please email Tony Chamberlain at marton@eurobell.co.uk for details. There is also a new Rustler 31 website run by Clive Harlow - www.rustler31.org

08 April 2003

email from Tony Chamberlain...
Rustler 31 rally August 2 & 3 at Shotley
A provisional plan is being hatched to hold an R31 rally at Shotley over the weekend of August 2 & 3 with dinner on the Saturday evening at the Bristol Arms. No bookings have been made yet pending the likely response. If you would like to attend please email me so that I can get some idea of numbers. This would be the first R31 rally for some years so it is a great opportunity to revisit old friends and boats.
Fair winds for the 2003 season and I hope to see some or all of you in August.

20 February 2003

email from John Freeman (Barnacle Goose of Wight)
We will have pale blue top sides
We are doing a fairly large refit this winter and hope to look a little less tired this season.
Last year we cruised the Southern Irish Coast which was a lot of fun. To anyone doing the same trip I have 2 pieces of advice 1] Carry all spares with you and long range fuel tanks. I only found one chandler on the whole S coast and that was in Cork City. [We needed a Nav bulb] 2] When all fishing has ceased the Celtic sea will be completely empty. No VHF no nothing.
This year we hope to leave on 30 June and go to the South of Brittany.

15 February 2003

I had emailed Rob Arensman (Fayaway) after finding his letter in Yachting Monthly Aug 02 (p18). His reply:
I was very pleased to learn about the Rustler- website, and about a new fact you brougt up about my boat: I did not know about the fact that Mr. Olluyn was the second owner after Cdr. Edwards. Another piece to complete the puzzle!
I wil add a list of Rustlers sailing in Holland. As you can see I changed "Calypso's" name in "Fayaway". Until a few years ago Dutch Rustler owners regularly organised a rally, the last one in 1992. Therefore a list of Dutch owners was available. Last year I have made an effort to update the list. Few owners did not respond on my letter I sent them. On the Rustler site however I found that "Zwalker" has new owners (I would be pleased if you could give me their e-mail address?)
As a reaction on my letter in YM a Mr. Tony Chamberlain sent me a mail with some information about my boat, and he also let me know that he was setting up some sort of Rustler owners Association. I do not know if you know Mr. Chamberlain or heard of him, I give you hereby his e-mail address: <omitted because spammers collect these things>. He suggested to organise a rally next summer, somewhere at the East Coast or SW- Holland. I got some enthusiast reactions about this plan from other Rustler-owners I know...
Finally I know that the owners of "Thruster", whose boat is lying almost alongside mine in the yacht harbour at Oudeschild, Texel, are keen to sell their boat. I will draw their attention to the Rustler site, and may be they will contact you.

14 February 2003

email from Marcus Stein:

I am trying to learn more about the boat in the listing below. Can you provide any information or clarification? Was there ever a Rustler 32 based on a Herreshoff design? Could it be the owner is mistaken in his details and this is actually a Rustler 31?

>>RUSTLER 32, 1968. Eight-ton cutter, classic plastic British-built Herreshoff design.

(see http://www.goodoldboat.com/classifieds.html )

10 February 2003

email from Peter Lennox:

I am the current owner of Rustler31 number 14 `NIRA´. Just returned last summer from a single handed round Atlantic circuit and regrettably my beloved Nira and I must part ways. Basically I´m going to sell her If you know of anyone interested in purchasing a Rustler like her please let me know or better still put us in touch. She´s in good nick and is as ready as she ever was for more ocean sailing.

Good luck with the website. I´ll be checking in from time to time.

03 February 2003

email from Tom van de Ven and Brenda Dambrink:

We are the new owners of a Rustler 31 build in 1966, and I would love to give you more information when I have it complete. Color white, name Zwalker. Our sailing area is Zeeland in the Nederlands.

I am very interested in tips and trics about this boat, and in pictures etc of others!

20 January 2003

email from Robert & Sara Taylor:

Came across the site by accident.

We have owned 'Bolero' for about ten years. She is a Maltings Boats model. We fitted a new Bukh Engine last winter. She is kept at Erith Yacht club on the Thames.

I will send more info when I have the time.

(following email...)

Thanks for the reply. Yes I found the site via alta vista.

Have you got any info on the previous Rustler Assn, Anne Hammick use to run it. We went ona couple of their meeting (Shotley and Blankenberg. I have some old new letters that might interest you!. Ther are a few Rustlers in my sailing area although we rarely see them. 'Sable' is at Chatham on the Medway. 'Rustlers Moon' at Burnham 'Vaquero' was at Ipswich two years ago. 'Skeborn' (Not correct spelling' is at West Mersea.

17 January 2003

email from Jonathan Easterbrooke:

I chanced upon your web site in my hunt for a R31. Do you know of anyone with one for sale?

If anyone is thinking of selling, email me and I will pass you on to Jonathan.

19 December 2002

email from David McCune:

I happened upon your new Rustler 31 web site.  How nice that you've taken the initiative to build the site!

I own "Ventura," hull number 32. I've owned her since 1991 and keep her near Los Angeles, California, in a town named -- of all things -- Ventura. I'll email you a photo or two soon.  "Ventura" has a lot of miles under her keel.  I've singelhanded her out and back to Hawaii and cruised her up and down the California coast.  I also raced her a bit some years ago in solo races off the California and Mexico coasts.  Under prior owners she's been to Tahiti, Hawaii at least one other time, across the Atlantic and through the Panama canal.

I went to a couple of the Rustler gatherings some years ago when Anne Hammick was organizing them -- one in Lymington and one in Blankenberge, Belgium -- though I didn't bring my Rustler. Over the past four or five years I neglected "Ventura" and was on the verge of giving up and selling her, but I just couldn't bear the idea.  So Gunilla (my part

15 November 2002

email from Charles Kite:

I own hull # 16, built in 1967.  It is on the hard as I am rebuilding most of it. The previous owner did not love the boat so there is much to do. I have contacted John Crix some time back. The boat is in Sacramento, California, USA. I hope to be on the water this summer, 2003. I could use spects on the mast as I want to replace it and the rigging. A new Yanmar is coming soon.

...(following day)

I named my boat FLIER. She was Zuni, but being a Kite I thought I would name her after a kite. I probly will be getting a new mast from LeFiell the first part of thr year and would like to know what I am shopping for. No hurry.

26 October 2002

email:

This is Gunnar Åkerlund mailing from Sweden. From searching the web frequently the past three years for Rustlers, I´ve been more passive this summer, until now. In 1999 I became proud owner of Rustica, a boat built in 1969 at Anstey and previously owned by Björn Larsson in Denmark. I don´t know whether you have heard of "The Celtic ring", a novel were Rustica plays a central part. However I have some material that may be of interest, let me look at it and come back.

Rustica is no 33 built, white hull with light blue-green deck. Sail no SWE 33. I have some copies of the old Hammick-documents from the eighties and some experience from installation of a new engine.

11 September 2002

I finally got all the pieces of the jigsaw in place and the web site is 'on the air'!

14 August 2002

I found John Crix' web site about "Callisto", and sent him an email about the fact that I was setting up this site. He replied …

Callisto and I are now on the move for a few years - eg. I’m writing this in Doca de Alcantara, Lisbon having sailed her down from Shoreham last week ...

I’ll be having a look at your site when I get a bit more stabilised here in Lisbon - at the moment my life seems to be full of boat cleaning, laundry and catching up on emails. Meanwhile, good luck with your search for other Rustler owners.

You can visit his site at http://www.yacht.callisto.btinternet.co.uk/index.html