By Richard Crockett
I can clearly remember the build of ‘Thunderchild’ as for some reason it attracted a lot of discussion, all good too. Even today she is a yacht that is regularly mentioned in dispatches – and still races all the major Cape regattas.
Maybe she was the talk of town as she was built by her owner Vincent Goldswain and his two sons, and launched just prior to the 1988 Rothmans Week. At 52-foot she was one of the larger club racers.
Her designer was Angelo Lavranos.
There lots to read about her in this 3-page report.
READ IT ALL HERE: Pages from 1989 01 – SA Yachting – OCR 2