I was the 4th owner of Thlaloca a sloop rigged trekka sistership built in 1959-60 by Hein Zenker
Hein & his wife Siggi sailed Thlaloca around the world starting in '61 with a small dog aboard. Mentioned in a book titled The Circumnavigators by Donald Holm.
I set out for the Carribean in 1985 from the Bahamas and got a bit hammered; the boat could take way more than it's crew.
We were surfing down 20' waves before I got sail reduced and finally hove to for 3 days and then turned back in.
You definitely don't go the "Thorny Path" to the Carribean in this boat. My mistake, not the boat's.
Considering that Thlaloca was built circa 1960 at a cost of $2800 (1960 dollars) and that I sold her in 1987 for $10,000
(1987 dollars) your price of 10k in todays dollars represents an excellent value for such a boat.
May she find the adventurous soul to cross a couple oceans in her-she's a real thorough-bred and can take you almost anywhere.
best of luck
John
"Hello,
Your "Trekka" represents a tremendous opportunity for someone that knows what they are looking at. I owned "Tarema" (a sloop rigged trekka built in Tasmania 1966) from 1971 to 1983 and made 2 trips to New Zealand in her. She never let me down and made really decent passages. After my 1st trip south, I built a dodger over the companionway that was a major "quality-of-life" issue when sailing to weather (or in the rain). There are still several trekka's sailing in New Zealand today. Now days with most cruising boats fitted out like motor homes, trekka's represent a back packing approach to cruising for those with modest means. I can't say enough about the design!!!!"
Best Regards,
Gary
Too late to love (taken from John Vigor's blog)
"MY HEART SKIPPED a beat or two while I was looking through Craigslist the other day. The most gorgeous boat was for sale, a trim little sistership to John Guzzwell’s famous Trekka, the 21-footer in which he sailed around the world."
"She’s being offered with an extensive inventory. And you can’t look at a picture of her without dreaming of the South Pacific, blue water and warm winds, and white sandy beaches on exotic palm-fringed islands. She's built for the deep water and ready to go — at half the price of a new baby car."
"My wife wasn’t jealous. “You could buy her just for the fun of having her,” she said.
But no. If I bought Tern I would be obliged to cross an ocean. Maybe two or three. That’s her destiny. She would be forcing me to go. And my conscience wouldn’t let her sit in port and rot.
But the timing is wrong for me. It’s too late. I am now too jaded and cynical. She needs someone young and passionate, someone willing to forgo luxury and safety in that wonderful wild, headlong quest for excitement and new experiences."
Taken from "Sopranino" by Patrick Ellam and Colin Mudie:
"Only once did we get a twelve-second surf, but eights, nines and tens came from every third or fourth wave. It was a most exhilarating business to be thus forging down the coast to Lisbon with great heaps of phosphorescent spray on both sides..." "In the last two hours the log had given us fifteen miles. We must have averaged eight knots in the last hour."
But no. If I bought Tern I would be obliged to cross an ocean. Maybe two or three. That’s her destiny. She would be forcing me to go. And my conscience wouldn’t let her sit in port and rot.
But the timing is wrong for me. It’s too late. I am now too jaded and cynical. She needs someone young and passionate, someone willing to forgo luxury and safety in that wonderful wild, headlong quest for excitement and new experiences."
Taken from "Sopranino" by Patrick Ellam and Colin Mudie:
"Only once did we get a twelve-second surf, but eights, nines and tens came from every third or fourth wave. It was a most exhilarating business to be thus forging down the coast to Lisbon with great heaps of phosphorescent spray on both sides..." "In the last two hours the log had given us fifteen miles. We must have averaged eight knots in the last hour."
Taken from the Wooden Boat Forum:
I was snooping through the 48 North ads, and came across an ad for this:
http://www.laurentgilestrekka.blogspot.com/
$10K. Oh, MA_A_A_A_ANNNN
http://www.laurentgilestrekka.blogspot.com/
$10K. Oh, MA_A_A_A_ANNNN
Dan Newton
05-19-2011, 09:31 AM
That's a lot of boat for 10K. Love the stove, and the quarterberth.
