petrel wrote:Dan & Ron,
Thanks for your kind replies. My Telstar an 8 M was built in the U.K. in 1979 and sold in the U.S.A. I have owned it and sailed it on the Chesapeake Bay since 1985. Unfortunately it has not been sailed much in the last 8 years due to family issues and damage at the boatyard. The damage has been expertly repaired and I am now in the process of refitting.
I was a member of the North American Telstar Owners Association until it disbanded and was at one time associated with the group in the U.K. Now that I hope be sailing again I thought I would reconnect and in doing so found this forum. I will also join the folks in the U.K. BTW the old Telstar group in the U.S.A. was headed up by Joe Suidszinski a veteran multihull sailer who has pushed his Telstar 26 to the limit. He now has a Seawind 1000 that he sailed in Australian waters for many years and then shipped it to the U.S.A. His website
http://www.katiekat.net is a very illuminating and an interesting read which includes some of his Telstar exploits. The now defunct website for the North American Telstar Owners Association is
http://www.telstartri.org also has some interesting stuff on the early Telstars.
At present I do not have any digital photos of my boat but will correct this soon.
Cheers
Geoffrey
Hi Geoffrey:
I found my way to this site when I started to refit my boat again a month or so ago. I had put that project on hold a few years ago when work overwhelmed any chance of continued recreational activities. When things finally calmed down this year, I started back where I left off years ago. I think I was the final link in circulating the old newsletters and when I fell by the wayside, the newsletters stopped comming as well. Anybody that had questions, I was sending them to Joe's travel site.
Anyway, I'm glad to see the Telstar being built again. The operators of this site have been very gracious to those of us with old boats. I even got an email from Joe the other day. It was nice to hear from him.
Looking forward to getting back in touch and, eventually bringing my boat to the Cheseapeak for an extended cruise. I think I will moore her in Cape May bacause of the fine offshore sailing, even through the summer.
Lou Giansante
Hull # 52