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Cobra
850 Boats & Members
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Specifications
LOA 28ft:5in 8.67m
LWL 22ft:0in 6.71m
Beam 9ft:6in 2.90m
Draught 3ft:11in 1.1938m (Twin).
4ft:9in (Fin)
Displacement 7,750lb 3,522kg |
The Cobra
850 was
a popular charter boat and was built in reasonably large numbers
(700 approx).There are still plenty of ex-flotilla boats to be
found in the Med.
The Cobra 850 has a five berth layout
in two cabins, with a separate heads and a dry locker. Many yachts
were home completed from kits, so the quality does vary. Fitted
with a reasonably long fin or (twin) keels and a large skeg supporting
the rudder. The 850 has good handling and a sporty performance.
The Cobra 850 was built to
comply with IOR rule,which penalised mainsail area, so most have
a 150% Genoa and a small mainsail.The rig layout can lend itself
to a touch of weather helm when hardpressed. Usually fitted with
a Bukh DV10 hp or a Yanmar 1GM. The fact that there are so many
around is testimony to the way that they were built, good eh!
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'Wandering
Star' Cobra
850
Webmasters pride & Joy
Probably one of the best Cobra's around.
Owned since Feb 2000, Description: Bilge keeler, (All New 2004
Yanmar 2GM20 + Box, shaft & prop, Sprayhood , Dodgers, Boom
with stack pack & lazyjacks, Antal 2 speed self tailers, spinlock
clutches, blocks and tracks replaced with barton gear, new hatches
to forecabin & heads, re-upholstered), You name it! It's been
replaced, anyone lend me a fiver! - I'm skint
Boat Based: Christchurch, Dorset, sailed in the solent & Poole
bay. We only race under engine |
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'Loo-Lah'
Cobra 850
Membership Secretary (our own Gordon Brown) Owner’s home
town is Weymouth, Loo-Lah lives on a swinging mooring at Castle
Cove Sailing Club, Portland Harbour. She has a 14 bhp Volvo MD7A
(fitted 2005) and has a fin keel with skeg hung rudder. The
odd bit of history about her is that someone at Sparkes Marina,
Hayling Island has twice spotted her and is sure that his brother
crossed the Atlantic in her when she was almost new in the early
1980’s. As for racing, She managed a creditable top 400
finish in the 2004 RTIR. Charles Walker
Click
this link to see Loo Lah in the 2007 RTIR |
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Going
Foreign!
'Decade' Cobra 850
Built 1979,Engine Yanmar 2GM20F 18 HP
Total refit, New mast,New Sails, Painted in and outside
Sailing area lakes by Leiden (de Kaag) Yselmeer and the North
sea, Home port, Warmond
We are very fond of her. She is very good in high seas and very
stable.With a nice speed through the water.She is very sea worthy.
With our best greetings. from the C&SOA
Gerrit
and Marianne de Best, Netherlands |
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'Auriga'
Cobra
850,
Bilge
keel, Kubota engine Owned by A & L Richardson and sits on a
swinging mooring in the Menai Straights
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'Uranie'
Cobra
850
Fin keel, Yanmar GM20, currently undergoing a major refit, Owner,
Tony Dawson Sovereign Harbour, East bourne
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'Kryostat
II' Cobra 850
#500, owned since Sep 2005, bilge keel, wheel steering, new Beta
20HP, in-mast reefing. Internal work pretty much done now - new
electronics to come. Boat Based: Neyland Yacht Haven, West Wales
- pontoon mooring.(K2) |
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'BANT-A-
NI' Cobra 850
She was factory built in 1981,original colour was red now
white. At present she is in the boatyard having a complete respray.
She was based at Newport S.C.Wales. Her name is welsh for ‘Off
We Go’. I think her sail No. is 500 this is the no I took
from original main, but I notice the final 850 on the club page
also as that number. Owner D Wooldridge |
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'Endymion'of Colne'
Cobra
850
Description: Part 1 registered, and is a 1981 factory finished,
Bilge Keel 850. We are based at Brightlingsea on the East Coast,
and most of our cruising is currently between the Deben and the
Thames.
If you see us about, pop over say "Hi!" and have a beer!!
Boat Based: Brightlingsea Owners Home Town: Brightlingsea, Owner:
John & Annette Carter.
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'Lavraki' Cobra 850
Built in 1981and exported to Greece in 1981 by O.A.Yacht Charters
S.A UK, sold by Neilson Active Holidays Ltd in Jan 2003. Purchased
from a private owner by myself Oct 2006.
“Lavraki”
Description: Fin keel with skeg hung rudder. Yanmar 2GM20
18hp. Boat Based: At Steno between Nidri and Vliho on the Island
of Lefkada Greece. Currently under going a major refit. Part III
registered. Call Sign: SV5493. Hull No: GRC 100403268. British Registry:
SSR105563. Owners Home Town. Brighton UK, & Amorgos Greece.
Owner: Mike MacLoughlin.
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"Waterlilly" Cobra 850
Fin Keel
Owner Mike Green, boat based Poole harbour |
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"Femme
Plaisir"
Cobra 850
We’ve owned Femme Plaisir for just under 2 years, she is a
bilge keel and was built in 1981, owner finished. She is fitted
with a Yanmar GM20 18hp engine. When we bought her she was lying
at Ipswich and had her transported to Whitby via road where vital
repairs were carried out over the winter months before then sailing
to her new home port of Hartlepool in the Spring of 2006. Last season
was a time of getting to know each other. This year we have been
far more adventurous and took off for a nine week cruise to Iona
just off the south west tip of Mull. We covered over 850 sea miles
and most of the time was spent sailing through poor weather, those
awful months of June and July! However I was not disappointed by
the boat’s performance and our confidence in her ability to
take a rough sea has grown. MMSI no 235054978, call sign ZNE15,
Part 1 registered 397549. Owners: Neville & Sylvia Vine
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