Ship Details

Nordlys (I)

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Photo Credit: Yvonne Higgs

 
 
Registry #1 320255 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1963 Tiffany (I) Name 6
Name 2 1978 Nordlys (I) Name 7
Name 3 1992 Tiffany I Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1963 Place Victoria Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 34.0' x 10.6' x 4.9'
Builder Pelagic Pacific Industries Ltd. Measurement (metric) 10.36m x 3.23m x 1.49m
Hull Reinforced Plastic Displacement
Gross Tonnage 12.71 Type 1 Yacht, sail (ketch)
Registered Tonnage 11.18 Type 2 Yacht, sail (yawl)
Engine 38bhp diesel auxiliary engine (1963) Engine Manufacture Newage (Manchester) Ltd., Manchester UK
Repower Propulsion Sail/screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1963 she was owned by John Bowron, West Vancouver BC Canada. In 1963-1977 she was owned by David Angus (MO), Victoria BC Canada. In 1978-1979 she was owned by David A. Oliver (MO), Saanichton BC Canada. In 1980-1988 she was owned by William B. Sampson (MO), Victoria BC Canada. In 1989-1992 she was owned by Janet L. Thibodeau, West Vancouver BC Canada. In 1992-2003 she was owned by Yvonne Higgs, Comox BC Canada. In 2003-2024 she was owned by Jacinthe Trottier and Dennis Hudson, Comox BC Canada.
 
Fate Afloat in 2024 Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Yvonne Higgs states that "In 1961 Pelagic Pacific built a sailboat mold and laid up 4 or more hulls. Length 40', beam 10'6" Some of the boats were finished as sloops, two as ketches. Tiffany, finished at Philbrook's boatyard in Victoria was a ketch, with the aft mast mounted directly above the rudder post. We always laughed and said it could be a ketch or a yawl and named it our "yetch". It was a center cockpit, aft cabin. Rigged with foresail, loose footed gib beam, main rolled on to the beam, small mizzen sail and provision for an "aap" (monkey sail) between the main and mizzen. The boat was originally named Tiffany, but the second owner let the name registration lapse when he purchased the boat and renamed it. The third owner reverted to Tiffany on registration but as that name was in use for a registered power boat, took the name Tiffany I. My husband, Dave and I purchased Tiffany I from Janet Thibodeau on March 6th 1992 and were the fifth owners. After my husband died in May 2002, I sold the boat to Dennis Hudson in Comox, where it is still docked."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Email (Yvonne Higgs- Nauticapedia 31/12/2017); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11923/1273?r=0&s=4 ;
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