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Appearantly there are only four of them built and I own one of them. Noel A. of Lake Macquarie area and Chris C. of Qld have also one. So I'm very curious about the fourth one? I'll post some more pictures of my boat on the site to give other members some idea how much if differs from the standard Top Hat.
So please post if you know the fourth boat and post some pics of them. I'm interested to see any differences between them and which boat was the demo.
My experiences with this boat is that it sails well and is very stable although the rigging is a bit odd. The 30% more sail makes a difference although I haven't raced the boat against a Top Hat 25. I had a few times the bad experience of a 40-50 ft Hobart to Sydney competitor (e.g. a boat called Dictator) trying to train their crew by using my boat as a training object because I was fast enough to be interesting and slow enough to be conquered.

Hi Paul

I may be the fourth owner. I purchased in September and understand my yacht was launched on L/Macq as ' Mad Hatter', later 'Blue Bonnet' and now 'Tusk'.

I'd love to see some photos of the other yachts. I did make contact with the chap selling the 27 in Sydney and he was kind enough to send me some pics - since lost when my cpu blew up.

I know nothing of standard specs such as displ. ballst rat. ect.- or the types of internal finishes. I do know mine is very raw inside with a nice factory liner but no teak trim like the one in Sydney up for sale.

Like you, I'd be very interested in a discussion other owners about these matters and more.

tim