News from Cygnet Wooden Boats October 02, 2020 at 08:49AM

A big Thank You for all the help we received in the search for the Restricted 21ft Yacht EDALGO! Apparently it is possible to find a needle in a haystack! 🙂 Unfortunately for EDALGO we were just 3 years to late in seaching for her! EDALGO was broken up by her last owner that purchased her at auction for her motor in 2017! ☹ EDALGO was sold into the Gippsland Lakes and converted to a fishing boat. With thanks to the keen observations of both Leigh Robinson and Len Spooner we found some memories of her last days! From Leigh Robinson: "Lived in the Mitchell River for years. In the early days used by Barry Calloway to fish the 6 mile reef. Fuzz Reed from Eastwood area would know her name. First sight I recognised her as an old 21 and I’m near sure her name was Edalgo the only 21 I’d had a sail in at Williamstown in my apprenticeship days with Ken and Ron Bottica,Noel and Bill Owens " From Len Spooner: "I recall Edalgo at around 1955/6 at geelong. she belonged to Fred Fitzgerald. a very nice boat and well sailed. A year or so back there was a boat on the side of the road down paynesville way and I noticed it had the bow of a 21 footer. it was in a poor state with a rough boxlike cabin and was for sale. I read where it was mentioned on facebook suggested it was the old 21 Footer Edalgo. looked like it had been turned into a fishing boat, very sad to see it." Thanks to both! All is not lost, with the appeal to find EDALGO a couple of lost Restricted 21's have come to light and we can hopefully add them to the Victorian/ Tasmanian fleet some day soon!