Sailing yacht 'Island Rambler' is a 1972 Conyplex Contest 33, hull No-89, and designed by U. van Essen & Dick Zaal.

Island Rambler...

WORK (now) IN PROGRESS on this site, and lots more to come over this coming winter of 2014/15. I have a huge amount of information/photo's to add, of both the trip back to UK from Leros, and the ongoing major refit of Island Rambler. Which is going well by the way. Time has been short for me re updating this site/blog, but I'm on the case now. I've had so many emails from existing/prospective Contest 33/Contest owners and admirers, (thank-you), its inspired me to get my proverbial finger out... ha ha :-)

Well.. what happened? Its now August 2019.. obviously the proverbial finger stayed where it was.. ;-) I will do my best to get sorted this coming winter as I do have tons of information and photo's that really do need to see the light of day.. 

Before I start, I'd like to give heartfelt thanks to my crew, Joe Bosher and Jon Uriarte, who helped me sail Island Rambler safely back to Falmouth UK in the summers of 2011/12. Joe and Jon sailed with me on independent legs of the trip, and proved themselves to be really great guys, and yachtsmen too. I would most certainly sail with them anywhere in the world without hesitation.

So... Hello & Welcome to my place on the web for "Island Rambler", a Conyplex Contest 33 sailing boat. I've set up this blog/site in the style of a website with different pages. To do this I've had to segregate the posts into different months so that I could have a start and finish with different sections of information. To navigate the site just click on the BLOG ARCHIVE drop-down box. Each month represents a different page. Also I have put a link to the NEXT PAGE in the last posts. Although information associated with "Island Rambler" and the Contest 33 can be found in this blog, I have also placed PDF documents & more photo's online. They can be found at the URL's below.
The first pages of the blog/site will be dedicated to the trip back to the UK. Because basically it was a delivery trip and we were pushing on to a destination, a lot of the minutiae that cruising in a sailing boat entails is kept to a minimum.  Also, as this is as much about the Contest 33 as anything else, over time (work in progress) I hope to be able to provide a lot of detailed information about these boats on dedicated pages, and the full refit of 'Island Rambler' in particular. I am going to give a brief run down of our trip though and include some pics... More photos of the boat and trip can be found on the Photobucket link above, and the the Photobucket slide-show in the side bar...