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Acrospire III

Acrospire III was restored in Melbourne by Dave Golding over two years in 1997 where they replaced all the Western Australian kauri ribs, the iroko and Tasmanian celery-top keel floors, the celery-top deck beams, Oregon beam shelves, kauri sheer planks, Tasmanian Huon pine garboards, the Queensland beech on epoxied -ply decks, the sternpost, king planks, gunwales, cabin, main hatch, forward hatch, and a new rudder. She has since had a full refit in 2002. She has never been fitted with a motor or plumbed toilet(2016).

She is now owned by Col Anderson and often seen heading the Melbourne classic racing fleet. Rating 9-Metre.

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Charlie Peel ACROSPIRE II

Sail Number: A1

Type: 25-foot Class Yacht (gaff sloop)

Charlie Peel ACROSPIRE II Specifications: – LOA: 33’1″ / 10.08m – LOD: 24’11″ / 7.59m – LWL: 18’8″ / 5.70m – Draft: – Vessel Number: HV000148 – Designer: Charlie Peel – Original Owner: Joe White, Commodore of the St. Kilda Yacht Club – Current Owner: – Year Built: 1911 – Built By: Peel Brothers, Australia – Hull Material: Carvel construction with kauri planking copper naeil fastened and celery top pine frames(dynel sheathed). – Sail Area: 46.7 sq.m

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Australian National Maritime Museum – Charlie Peel had developed a reputation for fast centreboard yachts by 1911 when Joe White commissioned the design of ACROSPIRE II for lake racing in Ballarat. Like THERA its bigger sister from the same year, ACROSPIRE II established a freakish reputation of its own as it won most events it raced in, and caused a rift between the inland clubs.

7.59 metres long on a 5.7 metre waterline with 46. 7 sq metres of sail, ACROSPIRE II rated at about 1.86 under the Victorian Yacht Racing Association’s version of the older Waterline and Sail area rule. When rigged it is over 12 metres long from the end of the boom to the end of the 2.5 metre long bowsprit. The long hull overhangs at the bow and stern and very shallow skimming dish hull shape combined with the live ballast crew sitting out on the gunwale to give ACROSPIRE II its outstanding performance. In a good breeze the craft easily pushed into semi-displacement sailing speeds, and there would have been times it was almost planing, quite a feat for craft of that period.

In 1914 ACROSPIRE II is recorded in the Argus as sailing on Albert Park, and during the race on Saturday 26 January, it capsized. A later report from 13 April 1925 shows ACROSPIRE II with a broken mast, which happened during a race for the Temple Cup. The caption indicates the crew jumped overboard and stood up on the shallow lake bottom to retrieve the broken gear.

ACROSPIRE II was purchased by Albert Park Yacht Club in the early 1970s and has been extensively restored by Garry Stewart as a reminder of those early days of Victorian yachting. Carrying a large gaff rig with a long bowsprit and long boom as it was originally configured, ACROSPIRE II teaches a new generation about traditional sailing and boat handling, and has even been back to Ballarat to once again head the fleet home on the race course.

Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):

Owner: (1911) – Joe White, Commodore of the St. Kilda Yacht Club Owner/Guardian: (1970s) – Albert Park Yacht Club Owner/Guardian: Joe White Owner/Guardian: Bill Wheeler Owner/Guardian: Mr. King

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Specifications, a genuine piece of australian yachting history.

ACROSPIRE IV is an international 9 metre class racing yacht, built in Melbourne Victoria in 1929 for a Victorian challenge for the Sayonara Cup. She was designed by Charlie Peel for Joe White, Commodore of the St Kilda Yacht Club, and built by Peel adjacent to White’s malt house in Collingwood.

Acrospire IV has taken her rightful place on the Australian Register of Historic Vessels.

THIS IS AN EXCITING AND VERY RARE OPPORTUNITY, TO BECOME THE CUSTODIAN OF A PIECE OF AUSTRALIAN MARITIME HISTORY!

The history of Joe White and his famous Acrospires.

Joe White’s line of Acrospires made a name for themselves in the yachting history of Victoria. They had their origin on Lake Wendouree at Ballarat, when in 1903 Mr White became a keen yachtsman as a result of purchasing Acrospire I. With her he won many cups and shields. In 1911 he had built by Chas Peel, Acrospire II. At the time she was the largest racing yacht designed for the inland lakes of Victoria and caused a sensation. She won many races and eventually became ‘The flag ship’ for the Albert Park Yacht Club.

In 1915 Joe White again commissioned Mr Peel, one of Australia’s foremost designer builders at the time, to design a fast yacht of 30 feet. Acrospire III (‘Ack’) was built by Hayes and Son in Sydney and launched in 1924. Amongst its many race wins, she won the championship of the bay and the Association Cup in 1927 and 1928.

Joe became obsessed with the challenge of winning the Sayonara Cup. After several failed attempts with Acrospire III he commissioned Chas Peel to design a larger more powerful yacht capable of bringing the silverware home. In 1928 at Joe Whites Malthouse in Collingwood, Acrospire IV was being secretly built with the express intention of winning the Sayonara Cup. She was the 4th and largest Acrospire that Commodore Joe White had commissioned.

At Victoria’s Centenary Regatta in1934 Acrospire IV scooped the pool in the A1 class. At the Royal Hobart Centenary Regatta, she won the 100 mile Bruny Island race in atrocious conditions, and set a race record time that stood until the mid eighties. She also won the Cactus, Sir Earnest Clarke, Sir Thomas Lipton and John Colvin Cups along with the Grand Aggregate Trophy.

In 1960 following the death of Joe White, Acrospire IV was sold to a syndicate from the R. Y. C. V. Acrospire IV was used in training Jock Sturrock’s America’s Cup team against the slightly larger Gretal, Acrospire showed impressive speed and handling by beating her larger rival on a number of occasions.

She was sold to Western Australia in 1971, where she remains to this day.

She has recently returned to her winning ways by securing the 2012 Fremantle Harbour Classic, 2012 P & O Fremantle to Rockingham Trophy, 2013 Fremantle to Rockingham Kwinana Industries Trophy and the 2013 Oswald Family perpetual Trophy for the overall winner at the Sail Mandurah Regatta.

Originally Gaffed Rigged for the first year of 1930, she was then fitted with the new configuration mast at the time being a ¾ Bermudan rig. An aluminium Mast head rig was fitted around 1978 and then the current mast configuration was put on in 2010.

The current owner became the custodian of Acrospire in 2007. Over the past decade Acrospire IV has been lovingly restored to her former glory from the keel up. No screw has been left unturned! The extensive restoration is estimated to of cost in the vicinity of $300,000. Some additional creature comforts have been tastefully designed into the interior, and she is now comfortably setup for overnight or even weekends away.

Details of this vessel are offered in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. Some photos may be of the same model boats. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice

• Small but functional galley in keeping with the classic design
• Single burner metho stove
• Small round sink.

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• Large forward double berth in front cabin.
• Two single berths in main saloon.

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Acrospire IV

Built in 1929 for Joe White hoping to successfully challenge “Vanessa” for the “Soyonara Cup” in 1929 and again in 1930, both times unsuccessful.

Used in 1965 by Jock Sturrocks team to train against Gretel whilst they were building “Dame Patti”.

Winner of the Lipton Cup, Portsea, International, Cactus, John Colvin and Sir Ernest Clark Cups.

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• partially restored hull
• partially restored deck
• paritally modified layout
• substantially restored rigging
• substantially restored sails
• partially modified gearbox
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• timber planked
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• timber plywood
• overhanging stem
• overhanging transom
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Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 219.

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Agricultural Change in the Russian Grain Belt: A Case Study of Samara Oblast

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We demonstrate the synergistic use of surface air temperature retrieved from AMSR-E (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on Earth observing satellite) and two vegetation indices (VIs) from the shorter wavelengths of MODIS (MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) to characterize cropland phenology in the major grain production areas of Northern Eurasia from 2003–2010. We selected 49 AMSR-E pixels across Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan, based on MODIS land cover percentage data. AMSR-E air temperature growing degree-days (GDD) captures the weekly, monthly, and seasonal oscillations, and well correlated with station GDD. A convex quadratic (CxQ) model that linked thermal time measured as growing degree-days to accumulated growing degree-days (AGDD) was fitted to each pixel's time series yielding high coefficients of determination (0.88 ≤ r 2 ≤ 0.98). Deviations of observed GDD from the CxQ model predicted GDD by site corresponded to peak VI for negative residuals (period of higher latent heat flux) and low VI at beginning and end of growing season for positive residuals (periods of higher sensible heat flux). Modeled thermal time to peak, i.e., AGDD at peak GDD, showed a strong inverse linear trend with respect to latitude with r 2 of 0.92 for Russia and Kazakhstan and 0.81 for Ukraine. MODIS VIs tracked similar seasonal responses in time and space and were highly correlated across the growing season with r 2 > 0.95. Sites at lower latitude (≤49°N) that grow winter and spring grains showed either a bimodal growing season or a shorter unimodal winter growing season with substantial inter-annual variability, whereas sites at higher latitude (≥56°N) where spring grains are cultivated exhibited shorter, unimodal growing seasons. Sites between these extremes exhibited longer unimodal growing seasons. At some sites there were shifts between unimodal and bimodal patterns over the study period. Regional heat waves that devastated grain production in 2007 in Ukraine and in 2010 in Russia and Kazakhstan appear clearly anomalous. Microwave based surface air temperature data holds great promise to extend to parts of the planet where the land surface is frequently obscured by clouds, smoke, or aerosols, and where routine meteorological observations are sparse or absent.

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Regional environmental change can be assessed using remote sensing in two ways: by looking for trends in image time series in terms of spectral indices, like the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), or through post-classification change analysis to identify land cover change (LCC). Here we demonstrate the efficacy of combined trend-LCC analysis using the Northern Eurasian grain belt (NEGB) and Aral Basin (AB) as examples. NDVI time series from 2001-2008 were derived from 500m MODIS NBAR 8-d composites spanning the growing season from March to October of each year. LCC analysis was based on the 500m MODIS Global Land Cover product for the years 2001 and 2008. Seasonal Kendall trend tests showed, on a per-pixel basis, that statistically significant (p<0.05) NDVI trends were largely negative, with declining seasonal NDVI covering 57% of the NEGB’s land area and 15% of the AB. Among pixels exhibiting negative NDVI trends, we found elevated LCC rates (relative to pixels exhibiting no trend) from: (1) cropland mosaic to pure cropland in the northern portion of the NEGB, largely in Russia (RU); (2) cropland to grassland in the southern portion of the NEGB, largely in Kazakhstan (KZ); (3) cropland to grassland, and shrub to grassland, in the AB. Statistically significant (p<0.05) positive NDVI trends were rare, covering less than 1% of the NEGB and AB. Among pixels exhibiting positive NDVI trends, we found elevated LCC rates from: (1) cropland to cropland mosaic in relatively small clusters of pixels in the northern NEGB, mostly in RU; (2) grassland to cropland in the southern NEGB, largely in KZ, and also in small clusters; (3) grassland to cropland (largely along the Amu Darya river), in addition to more widespread conversion of grassland and barren classes to shrub, in the AB. In the NEGB, the overall direction of regional change was toward agricultural de-intensification in KZ, likely reflecting persistent drought, in contrast with agricultural intensification in RU - perhaps due to overriding effects of socioeconomic forces, relative to climatic drivers, on land use decisions in RU. In the AB, we find agricultural intensification (grassland to cropland conversion) associated with positive NDVI trends; concentration of positive trends along the Amu Darya in Karakalpakstan suggests an expansion of irrigation. We also find both shrub decline and shrub encroachment in the AB, with likely effects on ecosystem function reflected in negative NDVI trends (declining GPP) where shrubs are declining and positive NDVI trends (increasing GPP) where shrubs are increasing. In sum, LCC analysis complements NDVI trend analyses. LCC analysis focuses on discrete, abrupt, and principally human-caused change. NDVI trend analysis is better suited to identifying continuous, gradual change, primarily driven by climatic conditions. However, land surface changes are both discrete and continuous, depending on perspective, and can be mutually reinforcing. Here we find that LCC results inform our interpretation of NDVI trends and vice versa. Each analysis, alone, provides an incomplete picture of the complexities of land surface change.

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