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Festina Tertia, K 4187
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197? Plan Peterson, Contessa 35

197? Original owner, Georges Green
Based at Lymington Yacht Haven alongside other boats available for charter from Festina Yachts.

1978 Cowes week: ?e/??

Beken picture received from Peter in 2022,

1979 Fastnet Race: DNF/??, MOODY
Round Britain Race: ?e/??

19?? Returned to private ownership

Received from Peter in 2022 "Contessa 35 “Festina Tertia” was built by Jeremy Rodgers in Lymington and was finished in royal blue with a wide white upper band in a similar style to the design used for Gumboots’, and had black anodised aluminium spars and rod rigging. Festina Tertia had wheel steering and a fully fitted interior. The original owner “George Green” was a lawyer from Cradley Heath, Warley, West Midlands in the UK and the yacht was available for racing charters through Festina Yachts based in Lymington, Hampshire, UK. I myself raced the yacht at Cowes Week in 1978 and the yacht was chartered to a Mr. Moody for the 1979 Fastnet Race. The yacht was based at Lymington Yacht Haven alongside other boats available for charter from Festina Yachts.
One of the crew of the yacht (Roger Watts) was lost overboard on the Fastnet Race in 1979 and so the yacht retired from the race and returned to Lymington. During that race I was myself skipper of another Festina Charter yacht called “Festina Quarta” which was a Contessa 43 and we managed to survive the storm and we completed the race, but we started off with 10 crew and finished with 20 people on board after saving 10 people from the water on our way to the finish in Plymouth.
After the Fastnet Race Festina Tertia competed in the Round Britain Race on charter but was eventually returned to private ownership. I am not sure where she is now but her sail number was K4187 as shown in the photo I sent previously"
Reçu de Guy P. en juillet 2022: "Grosse surprise en voyant réapparaître Festina Tertia. C'est le Contessa sur lequel j'ai couru le Fastnet 79 comme navigateur, et de fait chef de bord. La description du bateau et de son fonctionnement par Peter est très juste, ce qu'il dit du Fastnet un peu moins. Nous avons en fait abandonné dans la nuit de la tempête, à une quarantaine de milles du Fastnet, trop sous le vent pour espérer le virer. Équipage encore complet. On a fait route de fuite toute la nuit sous tourmentin, en jonglant avec les déferlantes. C'est dans la matinée, alors que ça mollissait un peu, qu'on a été roulé par une vague atypique, énorme et abrupte, la rogue wave des Anglais. Un homme à la mer, harnais défectueux ou mal mis... Trois tentatives de plus en plus vaines pour remonter sur lui, coulé.. Son corps a été té retrouvé un ou deux jours plus tard."