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Sailing YACHT Wild Joe

The Wild Joe yacht is a 60' (18.29m) luxury yacht, launched and delivered to her original owner by the leading yacht builder REICHEL/PUGH yachts in 2002 .

Her hull is made of composite, with a beam of 13' 3" (4.01m), a draft of 13' 6" (4.09m) .

The Racing Sailboat Wild Joe is currently located in Sibenik-Knin, with an asking price of €590,000

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Wild Joe Sailing Team is pleased to announce that a true sailing legend, the sixty feet long sailing race boat Wild Joe previously known as Wild Oats IX comes within reach of every adventuresome sailing fan starting from the 2010 season. The ship leaving the Kremik base is available to the guests upon arrangement. It is a great opportunity for amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals alike to put their competence to the test on the board of a superb sixty feet offshore sailing boat.

Wild Joe with a crew of three is at the disposal of guests for racing, simple charter or occasional tour alike offering unparalleled experiences to participants of team building programmes, business events and exciting outdoor weekends.

The owner guarantees a crew having substantial familiarity with the boat, however experienced sailors can have the chance to sail this extraordinary vessel on their own.

1. Full tour rental with a three man crew, rigging suitable for tours (excluding genakker)

1 day: 1800.- Eur + crew provisioning

2 days: 3400.- Eur + crew provisioning

3 days: 4800.- Eur + crew provisioning

4 days or over: 1500.- Eur/day + crew provisioning

In case genakker is to be used an additional one or two man crew from the ship team is required depending on the clients sailing competence for an extra charge of 120 Eur/person + full boarding.

II. Full race rental with a four man crew, complete race rigging

2500.- Eur per day (minimum 3 days) + crew provisioning

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Report from the Adriatic Race 28-30.04.2011.

first training of the year 2011

The Wild Joe has done its 4-day-long training for the Adriatic Race - the first off shore regatta of the year - which will be organized between 28-30th of April.

Rolex Middle Sea Race 2010

Wild Joe finished 5th place in Rolex Middle Sea Race!

Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup

Maxi Yacht World Cup, 05-11.09.2010., Porto Cervo, Sardegna, Italy

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©2010 Wild Joe Sailing Team

The Reichel-Pugh designed WILD JOE is one of the world’s fastest 60 foot sailboat, built by the Australian Azzura Marine boat factory in 2002. Wild Oats IX (her original name) is part of a 'legendary' line of Australian racing boats crewed by the Oatley family. The name and ownership change did not interrupt the boat’s success series, and up to now, it holds the record at the Pittwater Coffs Harbour Race, a regatta at which it captured four IRC victories. She has been transformed from her original Admiral’s Cup winning design to a DSS foiling boat using the latest foil and sail technology to take her performance to new levels.

In 2018 WILD JOE underwent a complete refit, including the installation of a DSS foil. The DSS foil, coupled with a completely new sail inventory from Doyle Sails, supervised and developed by Stu Bannatyne, has meant that the performance of the yacht has been increased as much as 40%. Speed increases of 6 knots in moderate wind strengths are not uncommon and the thrill factor for the owner and crew is at a completely different level.

Perfect for the offshore Mediterranean circuit, the West Coast of the USA and the Caribbean, still a potential Sydney-Hobart Winner, WILD JOE is a head turning game changer. WILD JOE is an iconic racing yacht. This is a rare opportunity to acquire such a legendary and perfectly refitted racer at such reasonable price.

Rolex Middle Sea Race 2022: ORC Overall Winner, IRC 3rd Overall & 2nd in IRC1 Class.

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Wild Joe - 2002 60' REICHEL/PUGH 60' Canting Keel Mini Maxi Primosten Sibenik-Knin Croatia ($656,212 USD est.) €590,000 EUR

Reichel/Pugh Yachts are pleased to announce that the 60' Canting Keel Mini Maxi Wild Joe (ex Wild Oats) is now for sale.

Malta Registered Yacht built by Azzura Yachts in Australia and launched in 2002. Professionally maintained by her current third owner and in excellent condition. Since her launch, the yacht has competed in the most prestigious regattas in Australia and Europe consistently scoring top results since her launch. Her enviable trophy list includes: Winner of the 2003 Admiral's Cup (UK)

Winner of the 2003, 2006 and 2008 Pittwater to Coffs Harbor Race (AUS) setting the race record in 2003

Winner of the 2006 & 2007 Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race (AUS)

Winner of the 2011 Barcolana Mini Maxi Class

Winner of the 2012 Barcolana Maxi Class, 3rd to Finish Overall

Top 5 Finishes in Giraglia Rolex Cup and Middle Sea Race 2010 & 2011

3rd Place in IRC Class 1 2014 Middle Sea Race

Wild Joe is a high performance racing yacht that has been professionally maintained and has a proven offshore and inshore track record. This fully offshore capable racing yacht is a turn-key solution that will allow her new owner to compete to a high level in both inshore and offshore regattas anywhere in the world.

The yacht was IRC optimized in 2012 by Reichel/Pugh and features:

• 2012 Bowsprit and Twin Backstay addition designed and engineered by Reichel/Pugh.
• 2012 Main Motor & Canting Keel Hydraulic System Refit
• 2014 Flex-C Continuous Carbon Rigging
• Full North Sails Inshore and Offshore Racing Sails Inventory including 2012 North Sails 3Di Inshore Main and Jib Top, 2011 Light & Medium Jibs & Staysails, 2011 Code 0 Spinnaker, 2012 Inshore Spinnaker and 2011 Reaching Spinnaker. 2014 NEW A1 and A4 Spinnakers, 2015 NEW 3Di North Mainsail, 2015 NEW Heavy Weather NORTH 3Di Jib,
• B&G Hercules Racing Electronics.
• Lewmar/Harken & Spinlock Deck Gear.

Price recently significantly reduced.

Drawings of the deck arrangements & interior, additional detailed sail and gear inventory information and photographs are available from our office upon request.

VAT HAS BEEN PAID IN THE EU.

Marina Kermik is a 45 minute from Split Airport

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Reichel/Pugh Yachts  are pleased to announce that the 60' Canting Keel Mini Maxi  Wild Joe  (ex Wild Oats) is now for sale.

Malta Registered Yacht built by Azzura Yachts in Australia and launched in 2002.  Professionally maintained by her current third owner and in excellent condition. Since her launch, the yacht has competed in the most prestigious regattas in Australia and Europe consistently scoring top results since her launch. Her enviable trophy list includes:  \n \n Winner of the 2003 Admiral's Cup (UK)

Winner of the 2003, 2006 and 2008 Pittwater to Coffs Harbor Race (AUS) setting the race record in 2003

Winner of the 2006 & 2007 Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race (AUS)

Winner of the 2011 Barcolana Mini Maxi Class

Winner of the 2012 Barcolana Maxi Class, 3rd to Finish Overall \n

Top 5 Finishes in Giraglia Rolex Cup and Middle Sea Race 2010 & 2011

3rd Place in IRC Class 1 2014 Middle Sea Race

\n Wild Joe  is a high performance racing yacht that has been professionally maintained and has a proven offshore and inshore track record. This fully offshore capable racing yacht is a turn-key solution that will allow her new owner to compete to a high level in both inshore and offshore regattas anywhere in the world.

The yacht was IRC optimized in 2012 by Reichel/Pugh and features:

Price recently significantly reduced.

\nDrawings of the deck arrangements & interior, additional detailed sail and gear inventory information and photographs are available from our office upon request.

VAT HAS BEEN PAID IN THE EU.

Marina Kermik is a 45 minute from Split Airport

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61' reichel/pugh | 2002 | €390,000.

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Wild Joe Yacht | 61' Reichel/pugh 2002

Wild Joe was originally built as Wild Oats IX by the Oatley family,she was a long way ahead of her time. A full carbon nomex build has her very light and very strong. An innovative canting keel and canard gave her a superior speed second to none for her length. Her results score card took her to the top as a podium racer.

As the design evolution moves forward Wild Joe has taken the next step with the installation of a DSS foil system. The performance gain is impressive, she is now back ahead of the game and ready for her new owner to enjoy the benefits.

Wild Joe's sail inventory is just as impressive, a near new inventory from Doyle Sail New Zealand under the guidance of Stu Bannatyne has her ready for any challenge.

Denison Yachting is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Race Yachts.

Denison Yacht Sales offers the details of this yacht in good faith but can’t guarantee the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of this boat for sale. This yacht for sale is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal from that yacht market without notice. She is offered as a convenience by this yacht broker to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a specific yacht for sale.

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• Yacht Details: 61' Reichel/pugh 2002
• Location: Split, Croatia
• Last Updated: Dec 15, 2023
• Asking Price: €390,000
• Max Draft: 13' 5''

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• Beam: 13' 2''
• Hull Material: Composite

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Wild Joe Yacht For Sale

Reichel/Pugh Yachts are pleased to announce that the 60' Canting Keel Mini Maxi Wild Joe (ex Wild Oats) is now for sale.

Malta Registered Yacht built by Azzura Yachts in Australia and launched in 2002. Professionally maintained by her current third owner and in excellent condition. Since her launch, the yacht has competed in the most prestigious regattas in Australia and Europe consistently scoring top results since her launch. Her enviable trophy list includes: Winner of the 2003 Admiral's Cup (UK)

Winner of the 2003, 2006 and 2008 Pittwater to Coffs Harbor Race (AUS) setting the race record in 2003

Winner of the 2006 & 2007 Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race (AUS)

Winner of the 2011 Barcolana Mini Maxi Class

Winner of the 2012 Barcolana Maxi Class, 3rd to Finish Overall

Top 5 Finishes in Giraglia Rolex Cup and Middle Sea Race 2010 & 2011

3rd Place in IRC Class 1 2014 Middle Sea Race

Wild Joe is a high performance racing yacht that has been professionally maintained and has a proven offshore and inshore track record. This fully offshore capable racing yacht is a turn-key solution that will allow her new owner to compete to a high level in both inshore and offshore regattas anywhere in the world.

The yacht was IRC optimized in 2012 by Reichel/Pugh and features:

• 2012 Bowsprit and Twin Backstay addition designed and engineered by Reichel/Pugh.
• 2012 Main Motor & Canting Keel Hydraulic System Refit
• 2014 Flex-C Continuous Carbon Rigging
• Full North Sails Inshore and Offshore Racing Sails Inventory including 2012 North Sails 3Di Inshore Main and Jib Top, 2011 Light & Medium Jibs & Staysails, 2011 Code 0 Spinnaker, 2012 Inshore Spinnaker and 2011 Reaching Spinnaker. 2014 NEW A1 and A4 Spinnakers, 2015 NEW 3Di North Mainsail, 2015 NEW Heavy Weather NORTH 3Di Jib,
• B&G Hercules Racing Electronics.
• Lewmar/Harken & Spinlock Deck Gear.

Price recently significantly reduced.

Drawings of the deck arrangements & interior, additional detailed sail and gear inventory information and photographs are available from our office upon request.

VAT HAS BEEN PAID IN THE EU.

Marina Kermik is a 45 minute from Split Airport

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• NOTABLE LANDMARKS Trinity Monastery; Voznesensko Georgievskiy Church
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Tyumen, the first Russian settlement in Siberia, lies 2,500km (1,600 mi) east of Moscow and behind the Ural Mountains. The Tyumen Oblast (region) has seen significant economic growth over the past twenty years, fuelled by the discovery and exploitation of significant oil fields.

Tyumen is also an educational centre, with more than forty thousand students.

Originally Tyumen was called Chimgi-Tura and its origins probably lay with the merchants from the ancient trade centres of Samarkand and Bukhara, who needed Siberian rivers to transport their goods to northern markets. For a long time Chimgi-Tura was the capital of Tyumen Khanate, which was a part of the Mongol Golden Horde Empire. With time Chimgi-Tura was renamed Tyumen, a Mongol word meaning “Ten thousand people.”

Russian Tyumen was established in 1586, when the first military mission sponsored by the Tsar and led by Ermak, mainly to respond frequent attacks of Khan Kuchum, seized the town. It then remained a quiet provincial Siberian city up until the 1960s. Most of its inhabitants lived in wooden houses along the Tura and Tyumenka rivers, for which it became known as the “capital of villages.”

Being a major transportation point to Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, Tyumen has experienced all major historical events in Russia. It has seen the Decembrists on their way to exile in Irkutsk, Tsar Nicholas II and his family to their final destination of Ekaterinburg, Revolution turmoil, Civil War, bloody uprisings against the new Bolshevik food policy ( prodrazverstka ), Gulag prisoners, and more. Many famous people were born or studied in Tyumen. Among them is the famous writer M. M. Prishvin. His essays about nature are filled with harmony and the art of words.

One resident was the most controversial figure in Russian history – Grigory Rasputin. His house can be visited in the village of Pokrovskoe, near Tyumen. It is believed that “the devil monk” was born sometime between 1864 and 1872.

Rasputin was an impoverished, drunken, dirty and foul-mouthed man. Even so, people claim that he had great powers. Many said that he was a healer and also a prophet. During his twenties, Rasputin supposedly became a holy man after a long religious conversation with one of his superiors. He lived off the charity of people who admired his asceticism. It is said that one time Rasputin accurately predicted a three month drought. This Siberian mystic arrived in St Petersburg in 1911 and within a few years had become one of the most influential men in government circles.

Tyumen is a city for walking, a city of contrasts. There are two main streets in the centre: Republics and Lenin. Amongst wooden houses and old churches you will see the modern glass buildings of the World Trade Centre and the Law Department of Tyumen State University as well as Soviet style neighbourhoods with multi-storey apartment buildings.

Optional Sightseeing

The historic city of Tobolsk, Siberia’s former capital, displays considerable charm to reward a short detour from Tyumen. The sights include the white-walled 18th-century Kremlin, incorporating the 17th century St Sofia Cathedral, and a weatherbeaten old town described by some as ‘wonderfully dilapidated’.

Winter in Tyumen

The winters are cold in Tyumen and outlying regions. However, they have one attraction that helps to cope with the winter, being open air hot springs. Thousands of people gather there, both locals and visitors from as far as Yekaterinburg and Moscow. this is truly a way to experience the contrast of the cold Siberian winter (-20℃ plus or minus) with the hot spring water (55℃).

It can be fun to change to your swimwear in the car and then dash to the water (100 m) from the parking area. Just taking a few steps out of the water means the water residue on your body turns into solid ice instantly. Good therapeutic skin pore treatment, we are told.

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Tyumen: Bourgeois Siberian oil capital

The Lover’s Bridge in Tyumen. Source: RIA Novosti

There’s something different about Tyumen. This city of over half a million people was the first Russian settlement in Siberia. Today, it’s the capital of the vast Tyumen Oblast, or province, that stretches from the Kazakhstan border north to the Arctic Ocean. Tyumen Oblast is home to the majority of Russia’s seemingly limitless oil and natural gas reserves. Some of the world’s largest drilling companies have officers here, and Tyumen residents enjoy much higher incomes than elsewhere in Russia. The result is a cosmopolitan city with a bright outlook on the future.

A stop in Tyumen provides an interesting glimpse into how modern Russia’s oil revenue has influenced Siberia’s oldest Russian city. Tyumen is a great stopover point on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and a short ride from Yekaterinburg (five hours) or Tobolsk (four hours).

How to get there

Direct flights run each day between Tyumen and Moscow or St. Petersburg ($450 roundtrip). Tyumen is also located on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Trains leave Moscow in the afternoon and evening ($110-250, 32-38 hours).

In the 16th century, Russia started expanding eastward into parts of Central Asia ruled by the Tatars, an Islamic people who still live thoughout Russia. A band of Cossacks wrested control of Tyumen from the Tatars in 1580. Six years later, Russians established a fort in Tyumen on the Tura River.

For centuries, Tyumen vied with the nearby city of Tobolsk—once the official capital of Siberia—for the prestige of the region’s most important city. Tyumen won in the end, when the Trans-Siberian Railroad bypassed Tobolsk and was routed through this now oil-rich city.

Tyumen played an important role in Russian history during times of war. At the beginning of the Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik Red Army slowly pushed the White Army, commanded by Admiral Alexander Kolchak, into Siberia. Kolchak and his anti-Bolshevik forces holed up in Tyumen until the Red Army overtook them in January of 1918.

Tura River. Source: Lori / Legion Media

During the Second World War, many Russian industries were moved away from the front to Siberian cities. Tyumen had already become an industrial capital during the early Soviet era, and the city became an ideal spot to relocate Russia’s western factories. As Nazi forces approached Russia in 1941, the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin was sent from the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square by train to the Tyumen State Agricultural Academy for safekeeping. In 1945, Lenin’s body was shipped back to Moscow.

Where to stay

Located in a stunningly remodeled Soviet building, The Hotel Vostok offers modern rooms ($80-125). Far more luxurious—and twice as expensive—is The Hotel Tyumen .

Some of the factories relocated to Tyumen during wartime remained in the city. The discovery of oil in the region catapulted Siberia’s oldest Russian settlement to further prosperity. Modern Tyumen is a vibrant city with a number of universities and a revamped center well-suited for exploration by foot.

Start your walking tour around central Tyumen on Ulitsa Respubliki. The city’s main drag has fine pedestrian walkways and leads wanderers past an impressive collection of tsarist-era buildings that recall Tyumen’s importance in the beginning of Russia’s colonization of Siberia.

From the southeastern end of Ul. Respubliki, head north toward the Tura River and take a brief side trip onto Ul. Ordzhonikidze to visit the Fine Arts Museum (47 Ul. Ordzhonikidze) which houses exhibits of classical Russian and Soviet art as well as traditional bone carving and works produced by the native people who live in the far north of Tyumen Oblast.

Detail of wood carvings and windows on wooden house. Source: Getty Images

Back on Ul. Respubliki, you’ll soon see the city’s requisite Lenin statue by the local government buildings. A block away, opposite Lenin, is Tyumen’s city park, a delightful place to walk or hop on one of its amusement rides.

Most Siberian cities developed under the watchful eyes of the atheist Soviet regime and churches are usually not Siberia’s strongpoint. But this isn’t true in four-centuries-old Tyumen. Strolling up Ul. Respubliki, you’ll soon come to the Church of the Saviour (41 Ul. Lenina) and the Znamensky Cathedral (13 Ul. Semakova). Each of these stunning Baroque-influenced churches are located right off Ul. Respubliki and were built in the late 18th century.

Tyumen is also famous for its historic wooden houses. Heading further up Ul. Respubliki, stop to wander around some of the side streets and snap photos of these ornate wooden structures which provide a glimpse back in time. Near the Tura River, you’ll pass a civil war monument in remembrance of the Tyumen natives who died fighting the White Army and the Tyumen State Agricultural Academy (7 Ul. Respubliki) an impressive building in its own right where Lenin was stored during the Second World War.

Near the end of Ul. Respubliki, take a walk over the Tura River on the Lover’s Bridge, a suspension bridge open to foot traffic only that has become one of Tyumen’s iconic sights. The other side of the river is a great place to see more of Tyumen’s signature wooden houses as well as take in the churches scattered around the city center.

Save the best for last and visit the Trinity Monastery (10 Ul. Kommunisticheskaya) at the end of Ul. Respubliki. A white wall surrounds the monastery, giving it the appearance of a mini-kremlin, and the golden onion domes of the 18th century churches within should not be missed.

Although navigating Tyumen is straightforward enough, the St. Petersburg-based travel company OSTWEST can arrange a city tour in Tyumen and the surrounding countryside. 

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