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Duet is a classic sailing yacht built of celery top pine. She is exceptionally stable with a heavy and long keel.
She is lying at Kettering in Tasmania but she can be delivered free of charge to Melbourne

She has been accepted in the 2025 Australian Wooden Boat Festival in February. This will be her 11th entry. If you own her for the Festival we can live on board and immerse yourself in the atmosphere.

The purchaser has the option of taking over a very convenient marina berth in Kettering.

Duet is an exceptionally stable yacht due to her long keel and 10 tons displacement. I purchased her in 2004. She is based on a design by Len Randell for the yacht Walkabout although Walkabout was a gaff rigged ketch. The highlight of her wooden interior is a magnificent Huon pine table.
She has been well maintained and the standing rigging was replaced in 2015. Duet is raced regularly in the twilights at Kettering.
Duet was built at Smithton, north-west Tasmania, by the shipwright Ken Williams in his garden and launched in 1974. After 10 years, under Geoff Phegans ownership, she was completely refitted out by Adam Brinton in Margate Marina including the drawers and chart table opposite the galley. The beautiful Huon pine table in the cabin was built by F. H. Vallance and Sons in Nth Hobart, a famous joinery shop.

Geoff re-rigged her in Hobart. For three years after that he sailed her (often solo) around the Pacific including New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu, Noumea and the east coast of Australia until returning to Hobart in 1989.
Dyad was then sold to Simon Weber who sailed her for several years in the d'Entrecasteaux Channel in southern Tasmania. He in turn sold the boat to Guy Deakin in 1994. Under Guy's ownership she was sailed only occasionally on the Derwent River and the d'Entrecasteaux Channel. He sold it to Steve McGill in 1998 who kept Dyad for 6 years. She was raced at KYC both in the twilights and weekends. He also cruised around the Channel as far as Recherche Bay and over to Nubeena and Port Arthur. Steve did some significant work on Dyad. He stripped and repainted the topsides, removed the toe rails and caulked the decks, removed the steel floors and had them blasted and epoxied.

David Bowker bought Dyad from Steve in 2004 and changed the name to Duet. David races her regularly at Kettering, sometimes by himself and won the Kettering twilight series in 2022-23. She is also used for cruising in the Hobart area.