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137 perform in the Citizen Watch Match Racing Series and decided to invest in one. Built primarily for cruising, Panchax’s interior fit out is more comfortable than most Stewart 34’s. She was purchased by Bill Hall of Australia who took her across the Tasman and changed her name to Picaron. Picaron has recently been purchased by Jan Scholten of Sydney. Pim Sail No. 810 Builder: John Lidgard Launched: 5 November 1960 Construction: Cold moulded triple diagonal kauri, glassed over Pim was built in 1960 by John Lidgard for Boyd Hargrave, in trio with Princess and Patiko. Hargrave’ssonDonremembers: “JohnLidgardalwaysreckonedthatPimwasthebest constructedof thethree,beingthelast.Theconstructionmethodwasverynewandhe learnt as he went along.” HargravehadjustplacedanorderforalaunchfromJohnLidgardwhenhewasinvited for a sail one Sunday on Peter Colmore-William’s new Stewart 34 Patiki. He came home and rang Lidgard to cancel the launch and have him build a Patiki instead! Pim was launched with Princess and Patiko on 5 November 1960,Guy Fawkes Day. Don Hargrave recalls: “Boyd hadn’t much experience so had a skipper for the first few races. The first race was on November 19 to Mahurangi Heads, the boat still with no engine, in the Squadron’s old F Division. Pim broke a tiller, blew out two spinnakers and one jib. Boyd thought that yachting would be cheaper than launching,but after that race he wasn’t so sure. Luckily that damage wasn’t repeated! After 2 years of keen competition in the Light Displacement Division, Boyd Hargrave had gotten the sailing bug and wanted to compete against the big boys of the Squadron.He came back from doing business in Wellington and rang his brother Win to say he had decided to get Bob Stewart to design something bigger (the 50’Northerner) that would win like Pim. In 1963Win Hargrave purchased Pim from his brother for the original cost,£2,700. Once, on the way back from Kawau they were caught by a nor’ westerly gale. The wind gusted up to 63 knots and his son, Rob, had tried to reef the main but it was impossible so they had to lower it and furl and make do with a storm jib and the motor. It was impossible to pick up their buoy in Hobson Bay so after much deliberation they grabbed a buoy in Devonport and managed to get the family to shore.Win and Rob stayed on board and waited a few hours until the wind died down enough to allow them across the harbourtotheirownmooringatHobsonBay.Theyweresothankfultherewasstillenoughwindtoblowthedinghyandtheexhausted oarsmen to shore! WhentheyfinallygothometherewasaphonecallfromBobStewartwho,fromhishouseuponParataiDrive,hadseenthemcoming in under storm jib. Stewart complimented:“You were doing well under the jib with the seas coming across like that.” The two most memorable occasions were; winning the Points Prize for the 1967/68 season and the run to Te Kouma in 1967. [It was] a light fluky southerly and as we came out of Ruthe Passage about 2 p.m.we counted 32 sails ahead of us.I sailed off to leeward and got my wish. [The] wind changed to the East a few miles off Coromandel and I reached to the finish - 3rd in the fleet.Ranger 1st , Northerner 2nd .” Hargrave sold Pim in 1969 as Boyd had asked him to help out and crew on Northerner. The new owners were Noel Taylor & his son,Ellis. Taylor says he“still has pleasant memories of the comradeship among the Patikis.” He was one of the owners in a Stewart 34 raft at mansion House, Kawau when the unofficial decision to build fibreglass Stewarts was mooted, along with John Taylor, Bill Miller, Pim crosses tacks with Patrician in the 2007 summer series Charles Scoones