New service from J Rogers

Selling your Contessa 26 is always a wrench but in these hard times it is made even more difficult as buyers try to drive down prices. Using the Associations proven web site to sell your boat will help keep brokerage fees low, but how can you make your boat stand out...

Mast Support Compression

CONTESSA 26: MAST SUPPORT BEAM COMPRESSION/ DISTORTION We are beginning to hear from a few people about slight distortion under the mast step of the Contessa 26. We have seen two examples of this, and there are a couple of ways to deal it, depending on the degree of...

Cooker & Genoa for sale

BLAKES LAVAC TAYLOR’S IDEAL K PARAFFIN COOKER- £150 ono High quality Paraffin stainless cooker. Often preferred for safety reasons. You either love them or hate them! This cooker is currently over £600 new but ours is for sale with it's own...
Mast organiser

Mast organiser

Really useful mast organizer Guy Waites (Red Admiral) designed a really useful mast organiser and Steve Wood has made and stocks the organiser the cost to members is £60.00 each This is for those Contessa 26’s with the original Proctor Mast .Each sale will...

Propellers

JR says… in answer to RYYC queries….. 2-bladed and 3-bladed fixed props do not perform equally, and so this inequality would in itself favour some boats  over others and thus the one-design status is compromised at this level  alone…. The...