Specifications
MODEL: Hartley Queenslander 33 (With Maurice Griffith inspired topsides)
BUILDER: Grant Svendsen & Ian Penney
RIG: Cutter
LOA: 36ft (3ft bowsprit)
BEAM: 3.2m
DRAUGHT: 1.6
HULL MATERIAL: Ferro Cement
TONNAGE: Give or take 12T (about 2 more than what she is designed for)
ENGINE: Fordson Major 1954 (40hp)
a short history of Black Duck
1981: The ferro hull of Black Duck was professionally built by Grant Svendsen on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. But for reasons unknown to us he never completed the boat.
1998: 17 years later Ian Penney and Cherie Penney, who lived on Waiheki Island, bought the hull including various boat gear such as mast, engine and winches. And after transporting it on the back of a truck to their backyard, they commenced the building of the boat. With Ian’s skill in Carpentry and Cherie’s expertise in design and décor the achieved boat was nothing less than a masterpiece.
2001: Ian and Penney launched Black Duck after having worked fulltime on the boat for 3 years.
2003: Ian sailed Black Duck across the Tasman Sea with a friend to Sydney. Cherie joined on a challenging crossing of Bass Strait to Tasmania where they lived for the following 14 years.
2017: Ian and Cherie sold the boat to us and moved to France to start a B&B.
2019: We left Tasmania starting our voyage planning to show Black Duck the World.
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Partly Inspired on a Maurice Griffith Design
Black Duck is often Mistaken for a Wylo, (Interestingly we found a note written by Nick Skeates, the designer of Wylos, in Black Ducks Guestbook) Furthermore, Ian also found inspiration in this magazine clipping of a Maurice Griffith design, shown above, for Black Duck's deck and cabin-top.
The building of Black Duck
The name of Black Duck
Cherie's pet duck
Black Duck was named after Cherie's pet Duck who lived in their garden and oversaw the building of the boat. When the duck died just prior to the launching, Cherie decided on the name.