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Lindingen Compass 34  (please visit the Compass34 blog for more information)

Yacht               :           MYLADY (yes  it's one word because it's one name)
Built in             :           Denmark in 1979
Naval architect :           Niels Roos
Number           :           77001
(Story has it that five were build.  Due to financial problems – that was the end of the line.) We have find out in the meantime there were actually 12.
Owner             :           Eelco Fransen (owner number 5 of boat number 1)
Eelco has met previous owners 4, 3 and 2 - all Dutch.  According owner number 2 his friend, number 1, brought the boat from Denmark.
LOA                 :          10.36 m
Width               :           3.2 m
Draft                :           1.8 m    (Being live-aboards our draft is actually 1.9 m)
Displacement  :            4.7 ton
Ballast              :           2.3 ton fin keel of cast iron
Casco              :           polyester
Deck               :           polyester
Super structure:           polyester
Wheel house   :           wood epoxied

Compass 34, off-shore sailyacht  MYLADY, is our ocean going craft.  She’s been Eelco's homestead / seastead since 1991.   MYLADY has more than 100 000 miles under her keel and has seen some amazing places in the world.
                                   Sloop rig



mast support repair





wind generator

Fin keel, rudder, saildriv



Of course at the time one don't take pictures of the disaster. You can read the full story here.