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Janice of Wyoming

Construction on Janice of Wyoming began in June 2003 and she was launched on 10 April 2005 built to Lloyd's classification. She is the twelfth design from Dubois Naval Architects built by Alloy Yachts since 1991. A 39.6m (130ft) sloop, Janice features a low profile hull that offers a sleek shape and high performance.

Thalia

Already in New Zealand for refit work at Oram's shipyard, Auckland, Thalia will be staying in the country to join in the Millennium Cup excitement. Built by Vitters, Holland and launched in 1994, Thalia is a Ron Holland designed 48.42 metre steel hull Marconi ketch, with (upwind) sail area of 1095 square metres, and an engine cruising speed of 11 knots. Thalia along with Janice of Wyoming were entrants in our Palma Regatta June 2007.

Silvertip

The high performance sloop 33.8m (111') Silvertip was built in 2001 of composite construction by Yachting Developments for performance, comfort and long distance cruising ability with striking and innovative design by Ed Dubois. She won both the Superyacht Society "Best Sailing Yacht" and Showboats "Best Sailing Yacht" awards in her class - the first yacht ever to win both awards.

Ragtime

The most recent entrant to the Millennium Cup 2009 is Ragtime (ex-Infidel). Ragtime has covered 150,000 miles of the earth's watery surface since she was launched in 1964, half of those on the race course.
Built in New Zealand by John Spencer for NZ industrialist Tom Clark, she was a break through design in terms of very lightweight construction, weighing 24,000 pounds in an era when most 65 footers weighed twice that. With a long, narrow planing hull and chines and Spencer's Art Deco stainless window frames, Infidel was also visually unusual. She has benefitted over the years from keel, rudder and mast updates, but the iconic hard chined hull and black, teak, and stainless look are unchanged.

Ragtime harks back to a different age, of wooden hulls, bright varnish, straight lines and hard, angular chines: quite stunning. She is also, for a 65 foot long boat, tiny, with a 11' beam and little room below deck: "with a full racing crew of nine it can get very cosy". Clark defeated the seemingly unbeatable Ranger for the New Zealand Class A Championship in 1967.

Outlawed from racing the Sydney-Hobart, Clark sold her to America where she was renamed Ragtime. In her first major outing she won the Barn Door in the 1973 Transpac over the much bigger and more powerful Windward Passage. Winning the Barn Door back to back in 1975 cemented her place in Transpac history. Ragtime would go on to complete 14 Transpacs, more than any other yacht.
Yet in 2004 Chris Welsh found her at a sheriff's auction. Welsh reconfigured Ragtime's rig and put on a new rudder and keel, and says the boat is even faster now, the fastest she has ever been.
After the new keel, Ragtime's Cinderella Story really began last June when she entered and won First Overall in the 3,600 mile 2008 Los Angeles -Tahiti Race. Ragtime continued on to Auckland, and two days after arriving won the Coastal Classic Bay of Islands race in conditions that saw just 140 of the 250 starting yachts withdraw, and followed up with a second placing in the 300 mile White Island Race.
The story turned sweeter with a First in Division II of the Sydney-Hobart Race, the race she had been outlawed from racing in 41 years ago. Top speed during the race: 26.5 knots. Back in Auckland for Anniversary Day brought line honors for Ragtime. We look forward to seeing her mixing it with the Millenium Cup Fleet on the Hauraki Gulf in the very near future!

Naos

Naos is a 106 ft (32m) Cutter Rig (beam 22.8ft /6.95m, max draft 11.81ft/3.6m). Of Ron Holland Design and built by CCYD in Venice in 1992, she has an aluminium hull and superstructure. This lovely sloop cruises at 10 knots with a max speed of 12. She has a crew of 4 led by captain Dan Artiss.
The interior was designed by Andrew Winch. Designed for 6 guests in 1 master cabin and 2 twin guest cabins, the guests' accommodation is forward while the crew accommodation and galley are aft.
The helm station is also aft, whilst a separate cockpit allows guests to relax and avoid the action on deck. Naos was refitted in 2004.