1956 Pedersen And Thuesen International Dragon

Wooden Ships Comments on this Pedersen & Thuesen International Dragon

International Dragon built by Pedersen and Thuesen in 1956 and first owned by the Colmans mustard family. First launched in Lowestoft that year, named Salar as were all the family boats. She placed 3^rd in the 1957 Edinburgh Cup in Torbay racing against Prince Philips Bluebottle.

She is one of 7 Dragons known to have been built by this yard where the limits of the design parameters were stretched to produce very fast boats, when this was discovered no more Dragons of this particular shape were allowed to be built but the existing boats were permitted to carry on racing. She is thought to be the last of the 7 remaining.

Bought by the present owner in 2002, she has undergone much refit work and has been brought back into a competitive racing condition. She won the 2016 Dragon Classics and has been consistently placed 1^st or 2^nd in the K-class fleet at Falmouth Week.

Complete with road trailer and nearly new North Sails race sails, this is a competitive Dragon ready for the coming season.

Specifications

Length on Deck: 29’3″

Beam: 6’5″

Draft: 3’11”

Displacement: 3700lbs / 1700kg

Sail Area: 286sqft

Refit Work in Present Ownership

• New keel bolts
• Topsides splined – recent new varnish
• New covering boards, king plank and transom
• 20 new steamed oak timbers
• 4 new deck beams
• Hull interior stripped and oiled
• Moved running backstays for easier access
• Upgraded spinnaker launch/recovery system
• Auto electric bilge pump fitted
• Recent paint and varnish top to bottom
• Underwater hull stripped and faired
• Strengthening of the cuddy to support spinnaker cleats

Construction Hull

Carvel planked in mahogany, all bronze screw fastened to steam bent oak timbers.

Grown oak floors across the centreline.

External iron ballast keel fastened with stainless steel keel bolts fitted in 2002. Kell rebedded 2013.

Decks and Cockpit

Marine plywood decks rebated to take recent varnished mahogany covering boards and king plank. All new decks by Cockwells of Mylor.

Open cockpit with space for the race crew. Winches and coamings were lowered to enable crew to sit out on the side decks more easily.

Superstructure

Usual Dragon cuddy in elegant varnished mahogany, strengthened to take spinnaker cleats.

Rig

Fractional Bermudan sloop rig to Dragon design on a keel stepped alloy mast.

Alloy boom and spinnaker pole.

Standing and Running Rigging

Stainless steel standing rigging new in 2000, to internal stainless chain plates. There is a stainless bar which takes the shrouds, this is bonded to a pair of marine plywood bulkheads under the side decks. These bulkheads are in turn bonded and fastened to the hull, spreading the loads of the rig right down to the keel.

New forestay 2016. New backstays 2024.

Race spec running rigging with deck and rig fittings from Harken.

Under deck roller furling system for the jib.

Sails

North Sails racing mainsail – excellent condition

North Sails racing genoa – excellent condition

North Sails Spinnaker – excellent condition

2 x spare mainsails and 2 x spare genoas for cruising

Winches

Pair of stainless steel non-self tailing sheet winches operated under the side deck.

Machinery

Auto electric bilge pump.

2 x 12 volt batteries, can be swapped out on for the other when they need charging.

Equipment

Well maintained road trailer, recently serviced

North Sails mainsail

North Sails jib

Spinnaker

Foredeck spinnaker chute

Alloy spinnaker pole

Boom crutch

Various fenders

Mooring warps

Cockpit cover

2 x 12 volt batteries

Auto electric bilge pump

NASA depth sounder