The Round Britain and Ireland Race in 1994 dared designer Simon Rogers all. The prototype built by him subscribed and the Whitbread 30, a Whitbread 60 in your pocket, swallowed most of his money. The design had to have success. Sun sweaty fingers while he was to stake everything on one card, so he named the boat: STICKY FINGERS. "STICKY" was 30 feet too small to be with such a bumpy race can exist at all, but Simon got out of the little hit everything out, his wife fed Reb during the campaign, the press, and at the end amazed the little plastic cups all and fast a minor celebrity and a pioneer in the conviction that the boat was quite small and light can be high seas. 
A real cracker, the Whitbread 30 not led a Mount Gay 30 but some designs (one of them goes with us as INTERMEZZO), remained a legend, and the prototype still lives. Simon Rogers sold the boat in 1995 to America. John Williams sailed it first, then sold it to Lee Pryor in California. 5 years ago, Craig Schweitzer bought it and brought it to South Africa in the near Johannesburg on the Vaal Dam, where it sailed as UTAX. Recently, Rob Samways her proud owner, she transported by road to Durban and carry out a refit now, to have them reappear as Rogers Whitbread 30 with the name STICKY FINGERS in its former glory.
A beautiful story of an exceptional boat. STICKY will now be on the radar Lobster.
Top: Reb Rogers, below: Rob Samways
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