Hi all

Just wondering if anyone is familiar with a WA yacht Walk On The Wildside and is this her under a different name

Regards Don

It's been maybe 30 years since I've seen her but my foggy memory suggests less freeboard and beamier for her length than that one. Pretty foggy though...

I know the boat very well and this is not it, well I don't think so.
Firstly she fell over on the slip a few months back in WA and I doubt she's repaired yet.
Secondly, she has a cut down (was vroken) carbon rig from a RP63 which looks like a tree trunk.
And finally, as nice a guy as Garth (walk on the wild sides owner) is, she was never in this nice a condition.
I suspect it's a Inglis 47 which has been modified and lengthened.
Have sent a message to a mate in WA to double check though

Ohhh, actually, maybe that memory is a bit too foggy, this one looks familiar...

and another from the Darwin - Ambon site...

Sail number seems to tally too!

www.google.com/search?q=yacht+walk+on+the+wild+side&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrgv3EuYvhAhX97XMBHQh9AToQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=916#imgrc=iZZG6DgKRHSyAM:

Well bugger me!!
Looks right Jethrow!!
Guess she was an insurance write off and someone spent some coin!!

Is she at Port Huon?

This might tally with Rumblefish's comments about the rig...

And if you look closely you can see Wildside in green and red on the old main where it's flaked!

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Jethrow said..
This might tally with Rumblefish's comments about the rig...

remember that week well!!
Owner had brought standing rigging in to replace.
We did as asked but he kept old (very) turnbuckles and one stripped the thread!

Got sooooo sunburnt doing traveller (yes she needs one dedicated crew for main sheet and one for traveller) on a round Rotto race!! My legs were pink for days!!!

Lived in Darwin for a few years recently and I'm sure this yacht appeared every year around Darwin Ambon time and disappeared for the rest of the year. I imagine she did the Ambon race then went home.. Was moored in front of a house in Cullen Bay lock.

Is this the old Wild One ? Report here from the 2000 M-H race: www.sail-world.com/Australia/Update-Indec-Consulting-Melbourne-to-Hobart/-1383?source=google

The boat is a stretched Inglass 57 which has been fitted with twin rudders. A gentleman from Hobart purchased the boat in WA where it has been for some time. He has had it out of the water doing a refurbish prior to sailing it home to Hobart. He was originally trying to get it home for the wooden boat festival. He purchased my Selden boom kicker and sent me the below photos which were take just prior to relaunch.

That's a serious amount of boat. Looks wet, and as sexy as hell.
Thanks Jode for the pics! You home in time to squeeze in the last Kingfisher?

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sydchris said..
Is this the old Wild One ? Report here from the 2000 M-H race: www.sail-world.com/Australia/Update-Indec-Consulting-Melbourne-to-Hobart/-1383?source=google

No different boat.
Wildside was built to sail around the Whitsundays for a heap of ex skiff guys.
Since been in WA has been modded alot

Certainly looking happier than she was last year.

The damage wasn't as bad as it could have been so to hear she had been written off was quite a shock. I suspect the company quoting the repair hand both hands firmly on it when they came up with the final figure banking on a cheque.

Glad to see she will get another lease on life.

Thanks for all of the feedback so far but I am still a bit confused as to whether Thriller is the repaired and renamed Walk on the Wildside

Can anyone give a definate answer

Regards Don

I thought I saw a few pics of Binnie sailing her south to Tassie, so perhaps......

I would say that Thriller was definitely the Walk on the Wild side from the pics I put up but I also agree with rumblefish that I remember a Walk on the wild side that was 70+ feet long and I seem to remember it was a Qld sailmaker, maybe Rob White had something to do with it, if not owning it.

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rumblefish said..
Well bugger me!!
Looks right Jethrow!!
Guess she was an insurance write off and someone spent some coin!!

Is she at Port Huon?

Hi Rumblefish

She is tied up to the jetty in front of the yacht club

It says on this website Walk on the Wildside was 58 foot long which is about the right length

Not sure who own's her but she has HYC on the stern which down here would normally mean Huon Yacht Club but i am not aware of any club member buying her unless my wife has bought me a early birthday present

One of the other club members who had spent some time in WA mentioned she look a bit like Walk on the Wildside so i thought i would ask the question and see if anyone knew her history

Regards Don

Don,
Walk on the Wild side had a carbon rig, can't tell in your photo? She was the ex-Living Doll, which had the carbon rig and twin rudders.

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shaggybaxter said..
That's a serious amount of boat. Looks wet, and as sexy as hell.
Thanks Jode for the pics! You home in time to squeeze in the last Kingfisher?

I only got home this week after being away for 2 months in the caravan, so as you can imagine the boat needs a bit of TLC. If Kingfisher was one week later I would have been there.

Thriller is 100% the renamed Walk on the Wild side. She came over here in 1995 (hence the sail number).
It was on the hard in Freo for 5 months after it fell over and was purchased by a bloke from Tasmania, who's bother is a shipright and they fixed it. It departed Freo two weeks ago and must have had a cracking ride.
It was an Inglis 57 but had the arse extended to make it 58.
The boats original timber rudder was lost sailing to Lombok in 97 and the subsequent replacement only lasted a year or two. The last transom hung one was designed by my old man and built under spec but lasted until twin rudders were installed when the first carbon rig went on or shortly thereafter. The original aluminium rig broke twice (3 of us fixed it as they were able to get both parts back), the first carbon one (ex living doll) was dropped off Carnarvon 5 or 6 years back. The rig on it now was custom and from NZ rigging.

i believe the rig currently has a single stainless spreader as they were unable to get a new carbon one in time for the trip.

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Ohf Shore said..
Thriller is 100% the renamed Walk on the Wild side. She came over here in 1995 (hence the sail number).
It was on the hard in Freo for 5 months after it fell over and was purchased by a bloke from Tasmania, who's bother is a shipright and they fixed it. It departed Freo two weeks ago and must have had a cracking ride.
It was an Inglis 57 but had the arse extended to make it 58.
The boats original timber rudder was lost sailing to Lombok in 97 and the subsequent replacement only lasted a year or two. The last transom hung one was designed by my old man and built under spec but lasted until twin rudders were installed when the first carbon rig went on or shortly thereafter. The original aluminium rig broke twice (3 of us fixed it as they were able to get both parts back), the first carbon one (ex living doll) was dropped off Carnarvon 5 or 6 years back. The rig on it now was custom and from NZ rigging.

i believe the rig currently has a single stainless spreader as they were unable to get a new carbon one in time for the trip.

Great to hear the history Ohf, thanks !
I still love these boats, great era of sailboat design. WA had more than their fair share of big Inglis' you lucky bastards.

So would I have raced against this Walk on the Wildside in the '91 Brisbane to Gladstone race? I thought that one was longer?

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Jethrow said..
So would I have raced against this Walk on the Wildside in the '91 Brisbane to Gladstone race? I thought that one was longer?

Maybe that was Grant Warrington's 1st Wild Thing? The one in the infamous 1990 photo?
edit : scrap that, you mentioned longer, that's not Wild thing then.

Hi Ohf Shore

Thanks for the information

In the photo that was posted of Thriller on the hard it doesn't show a keel

Does the keel bolt on to the hull and do you have any idea of what she would draw because in the upper reaches of the Huon around the start line area there are some shallow areas and if it has been bought by a club member to race here they would have to be careful where they went

Regards Don

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shaggybaxter said..

Ohf Shore said..
Thriller is 100% the renamed Walk on the Wild side. She came over here in 1995 (hence the sail number).
It was on the hard in Freo for 5 months after it fell over and was purchased by a bloke from Tasmania, who's bother is a shipright and they fixed it. It departed Freo two weeks ago and must have had a cracking ride.
It was an Inglis 57 but had the arse extended to make it 58.
The boats original timber rudder was lost sailing to Lombok in 97 and the subsequent replacement only lasted a year or two. The last transom hung one was designed by my old man and built under spec but lasted until twin rudders were installed when the first carbon rig went on or shortly thereafter. The original aluminium rig broke twice (3 of us fixed it as they were able to get both parts back), the first carbon one (ex living doll) was dropped off Carnarvon 5 or 6 years back. The rig on it now was custom and from NZ rigging.

i believe the rig currently has a single stainless spreader as they were unable to get a new carbon one in time for the trip.

Great to hear the history Ohf, thanks !
I still love these boats, great era of sailboat design. WA had more than their fair share of big Inglis' you lucky bastards.

The 47's Scavenger and Fast Forward are still here though we had Vendetta for a few years. I think she went to New Zealand. Wild Thing became Wild (Mild) One which also spent a few years and ended up in Tasmania I think. She always seemed to be the slowest of he lot.

Racing was good in the early 2000's when they were all raced hard.

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Donk107 said..
Hi Ohf Shore

Thanks for the information

In the photo that was posted of Thriller on the hard it doesn't show a keel

Does the keel bolt on to the hull and do you have any idea of what she would draw because in the upper reaches of the Huon around the start line area there are some shallow areas and if it has been bought by a club member to race here they would have to be careful where they went

Regards Don

2.5t lifting keel on it. Up to 2.6 I think and down to 3.6. Again, I think.

The keel is a timber/carbon fin so when they had their accident it was just unpinned and popped out the bottom.