Southern Cross

New Owner:  Chris Moore (2024)

Westbrook, CT

Duck Island Yacht Club

(x-Risoluto, x-Shamrock)

Previous Owner:  Brian Higgins  Westport, CT Cedar Point Yacht Club

As the subject says, Southern Cross, the full sail inventory of roughly 20 sails, and it's full suite of B&G electronics now has a new owner, Chris Moore of Duck Island Yacht Club in CT.

I love the boat and didn't want to sell it, but this spring my wife and I had a beautiful baby girl, and so between the new baby and the challenge of competing and finding good crew to operate a symmetrical spin race boat in western long island sound where almost all the boats are asymmetrical it was time to pass the torch onto someone new.

With Southern Cross we competed in a lot of events such as Edgartown Around Martha's Vineyard race, Edlu & Stratford Shoals races, Stamford Denmark Race, Around Long Island Regatta, and countless other small events and wed night club races.

Southern Cross also took home plenty of trophies in the time I had her, with the most notable being an Around Long Island Doublehanded 1st followed by a 2nd the following year, and a season 3rd overall finish for the 2022 YRALIS du Moulin Cup Double Handed Distance Racing award. I also cruised the boat from Nantucket to New Jersey and all points in-between averaging around 1500nm per year on the boat.

The Frers 33 remains a very solid platform to compete and sail all these years later. I'm very sad to let her go, but happy it hopefully get a chance to do some one design racing, and to someone that I hope is able to take as good care of the boat as I did.

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The boat was purchased in 2018 and renamed Southern Cross. In the subsequent year I have already put in lots of effort into cleaning up and improving the interior and the electrical of this already beautiful and mostly well maintained boat. I have completed about 70% of the work so far refinishing and varnishing all of the interior brightwork, completed a full LED conversion on all interior and exterior lighting, and completely replaced everything at the Nav station, instruments, breaker panel, etc. I have also outfitted the boat with a Staysail and other small upgrades to prepare the boat for longer distance and overnight races. The boat is regularly raced out of Cedar Point Yacht Club and elsewhere throughout the summer, and was also cruised to Block Island for a week last summer.