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Tintara is in the South Australia Maritime Museum, but is currently in storage.  Many thanks to the Senior Curator Bill Seager for supplying information and images.

Tintara is a 12 square metre Heavyweight Sharpie of hard chine carvel construction. It was built by legendary yachtsman Sir James Hardy and friends for the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956. It has Roly Tasker Egyptian cotton jib and mainsail and a red spinnaker. Tintara was disqualified in the qualifying trials after a win and two seconds because metal brackets had been put around the pumps and the planking extended two centrmetres beyond the transom. Tintara won the national championships and was raced as a two-man boat in the Olympic trials. In the Australian championships it had been raced with a crew of three.

Tintara’s decking is made from strips of Sir James’ mother’s cedar sideboard, with the rest of the deck being western red cedar.

 See below the images of Tintara in storage. (higher resolution versions are available in the zoom media gallery).

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