INVESTIGATOR 563

Andrew, my boat makes between 4 and 5 knots when the breeze is up. Your planning problem is calculating distance made good as this depends mostly on the direction of the wind. When tacking, you sail at a good rate of knots but not make a lot of headway.
Have fun on the water.
Ray

Welcome Kelpie. Yes, 1976 sounds about right. You live in a great area to sail an Investigator.
I haven't come across number #16 before, so one more to add to the list. #002 is pictured in one of the articles on this forum.

#78 is indeed in "The List".
Investigator's name is Trim and was last spotted in Bowen in 2022.

One of the reviews of the Investigator in the Magazine Library was written by Geoff Toghill. He wrote more than 60 books about all things nautical. Geoff died in 1975 aged 85.

Andrew, Just love a good (Investigator) mystery, but I think, in this case, that the two names are just a co-incidence. My listing comes from an 2014 advertisement for this boat. There were other photos in the original ad with the boat rego clearly visible in two of them. The NSW trailer rego is als...

Attached is an updated list of Investigators. The list was compiled from my own records of the boats that I have come across from advertisements, this forum, Facebook or google images over the last twenty or so years. I have listed boats where I have found either the sail number, name or registratio...

I thought that it might be interesting to start a thread listing the books that members have found interesting regarding all things nautical. I recently finished reading: The Great Windships: How Sailing Ships Made the Modern World by Brian Stafford. It covers the history of sail in a very entertain...

These were up for sale a few years back.

I came across this expired advertisement for an Investigator in Western Australia. Does anyone have any information about this boat?

This is Palamida, Robert Burrell's old boat. Robert was very active on this forum and posted several youtube videos. The Investigator looks like it has been moored for a few years but is otherwise in good shape. The price seems very reasonable. My records show this as boat No 5. Runaway bay is just ...